Baldwin/Motion Phase III GT Corvettes

[djunod]

Some of the Maco's used the '69 Firebird tail lights. Mine included (mine's a Motion kit, not Motion built).

I know that some of the Maco's were built in New Jersey for Joel. Perhaps some of the GT's were as well.

[69motionvet]

The tail light lens on the gold motion phase III GT are glued to the tail panel. The old light sockets are glued above that so that the light bulb reflects on the tail light lens. This allows you access to change the bulb. I agree the lens look like 68/69 firebird lights.
I'll look underneath the car and see if its the original tail panel or not and post later.

George

[Chevy454]

I'll rattle Darryl's cage and see if I can't get him to pop in with some info...

[Stefano]

I thought Joey Batafucco's dad was doing some of the body and paint for Joel?

[Pantera]

I am pretty sure that he did most of the bigger jobs. Gary did most of the extra special custom paint work. I have heard that he was not yet doing anything for Joel back in the eary days.

[JoeG]

I had contacted Gary about the PhaseIII GT Vettes--He said he did alot of them ,but not all of them----Custom Enterprises/Corvette Enterprises did the early ones---Thanks Gary--

[P3GT]

My car was last documented as a Phase III on April 6,1970 with Motion in house service records. It was purchased from Motion on June 16,1970 as a Phase III GT.
I have pictures of the car, after the wreck, still as a Phase III with gold stripe and Torque Thrust wheels. The damage was limited mostly to the fiberglass tail light panel. The original 427 blew about a month after the wreck damage was repaired. Approx. May of 1970. This gives a window of 1-6 weeks to be converted to a GT. Maybe two months.
As far as Joel Rosen is concerned, my car is a real original documented Phase III GT, and his is the only opinion that matters to me. My thought is that it was owned, built and sold by Motion as a Phase III GT.
The car mentioned that burnt was actually parked next to another car that caught fire and the fire spread to the GT. This happened before the car was delivered to the customer so a duplicate car was built to fulfill the order. This is the same highly optioned yellow and black car Joel bought from Warner Brothers and restored a few years back.
My tail lights have six individual pieces of red plastic bonded to the rear panel and has the stock Corvette tail light housings crudely mounted to the frame about 4-5 inchs behind the plastic.
I wasn't old enough to drive when these cars were built and never lived in the northeast so everything I know about these cars is through research. I'm still not sure about the figure of 10 cars, and would not automaticly discount a car just because it turns up as number 11. I wasn't fortunate enough to be at the reunion when Joel was there so if he said definately 10.. then ten it is.
Hope this helps!
Darryl