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[Pantera]

The use of SB cars seems strange to me. His dealer cost on a BB car would not be that much more of a difference over a SB. The main reason is that he could sell the L-78 motor to the boat racers and then his cost of the CE L-88 motor would be very little difference in cost if any at all.

Now you say after '70 he used SB cars? Perhaps after Baldwin Chev. closed in '74 that advantage was lost? Perhaps those SB car's are just Motion conversions done for someone and not a car he bought from a dealer and modified for sale.

After 1974 he was more into the Maco conversions and didn't make any more Phase III GT's unless someone really wanted one.

We just don't have enough data on these cars from Joel. There are very few pic of the "Baldwin GT" cars. Until I showed up with my '70 BM documented car nobody even knew it existed. Joel himself had thought it was totaled shortly after it was built becase the owner had called him and told him he wrecked it.




I know the two cars that I have were both original BB cars?
We can only hope with time that we gain more knowledge about what he did.

[COPO]

In '67 the first BM Camaro was a small block SS 350 car, thereafter, they seemed to all start as BB L-78 cars until the 70's. The '71 BM Camaro I owned started as a Z-28. My '69 BM Camaro and '67 BM Chevelle both started as L-78's.