More old photos

[427TJ]

Boy, if it's not a COPO that makes it hard to explain the origins of this car. (I attached the photo again.) Could the owner have bought a COPO elsewhere and taken it to Motion for modification? Man, that sure looks like a COPO with the bowtie grille emblem and no displacement emblems. Yeah, Motion swapped emblems on most of the cars. Another mystery to be solved by someone out there.

[micky69396]

Any BM chevelle articles? You never see anything on them.

[427TJ]

Here's a '67 B-M Chevelle. The original article calls this the first Chevelle SS 427 conversion by Motion. The photo went across the center of the magazine.

[427TJ]

From the article in the 4/68 Cars: (photo attached)

"Charlie Mason of Stamford, Conn. is a young, avid drag racing fan who doesn't believe in buying a compromise supercar, then going to usual soup and sweat route. Being a young, avid drag racing fan who has to work for a living he couldn't afford the two-car bit, which ruled out a workhorse for daily transportation and a race car in the garage for Sunday service. Charlie Mason was almost ready to compromise. There seemed to be no other way out.

Just when things were getting pretty bleak, Charlie picked up on some ads in national performance auto magazines pertaining to ultimate street-strip supercars. The ads were for Baldwin Chevrolet's line of SS-427 Camaros, Chevelles, Chevy IIs, Chevys and Corvettes. Five weeks after he paid Baldwin Chevrolet a visit, he drove out of the showroom with a magnificent SS-427 Chevelle loaded with a host of factory and specialty performance options. Two weeks after that momentous occasion, Charlie drove from his home in Stamford to New York National Speedway (over 100 miles) in his 4.88-geared Chevelle and smartly set a new B/HR track record. After a few weeks he was running consistent 11.50's with trap speeds of 120-plus mph. And he was still driving the car to and from the track and using it as daily transportation during the week. Just for the record, his best time to date is 11.50-123 mph. And that's with a showroom stock, 3350-pound legal street machine that's used as a weekday workhorse."

Read that and weep.

[427TJ]

"How do you get a 3350-pound four-five passenger street machine to run 11.50s? It's relatively simple if you have $5500 to spend and you don't want to bother fiddling with all kinds of speed equipment. All you have to do is head on down to Baldwin Chevrolet, go for a packed-out demo ride in the display Chevelle, and sign on the dotted line. And the best part is that the complete package, speed goodies and all, can be financed." (see photo)

[55chevy]

Keem 'em comin' Bill

[JoeG]

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[Pantera]

That is just a std camaro and could have started out as a 6 cyl even. It is just a std hood with a 67 vette scoop on it. I think we are wishing, when the thought of a Copo comes along but Joel would use what ever he could get his hands on quick if he had a sale. In fact he said it himself that he was not aware of the Copo program or beleive me he would have taken advantage of it.

That actually looks like a 6 cyl car to me. Just remember he was selling horsepower and who cared about what it came in. For that price it was a real bargain!!!! I bet he was making pretty good money on the cars two ways. He could buy them wholesale and then sell the orignal motors out of them for probably almost as much as he had to pay Chev for the new crate motors.

My cousin was the parts Mgr of Bill White Chev in Tulsa and I blew up my 283 in my car. I paid $195 for a 375 hp 327 shortblock back when they first came out. My 57 chev was a real badass for about 3 months till everybody found out and would not race me for money anymore.