New member - old Motion fan

[x Baldwin Motion]

WELCOME DOG!! POST THOSE MINICAR ADS. YOU DA MAN.

[72-SS-L48]

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A shot of another vette from the same day - don't know what COPO stood for

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Another killer shot of a Day 2 Race Vette. Very Cool!

[FANTASY FACTORY]

I'll shed some first hand light on the "COPO" Vette,
MY father worked for Custom Auto Collision that is displayed on the quarter panel.late 60's. My dad was very good friends(goombas) with "GENE COPOBIANCO" aka Gino, Owner of COPO motors, I recall going down to hang out at the shop many a saturday while the car was being prepped by my dad for paint as gino was not a very patient man when it came to such things, the shop was located in astoria queens under the "EL" the day it was to have the paint started my father decides to exercise the big block while it had some puny painter tires on it, i think this scenario was later used in the french connection movie, but the car returned unscathed, as is the way friends go their seperate ways and i only saw the car once again after it was painted,(picture does not do it justice) at National Speedway in Center Moriches, by now I was class racing my 66 cuda, Gino remembered me and allowed me to stroll the pits in the car, I belive the pic here is in the far end of the pits after the ticket booth, along side Graham road. As a side note I have lived within walking distance of MOTION since 1975.

[x Baldwin Motion]

Welcome, FanFac, which side of the tracks did you live on?

[mockingbird812]

Welcome aboard Dog. Folks around here will dig any and all Motion stuff. Bring it on!

[COPO]

Welcome Dog. What magazine was the article on the Motion ribbon camaro from?

[Dog427435]

Super Street Cars - April '71
lots of NY area speed shop ad's - 2pg motion ad & full page Motion Minicar ad

[MosportGreen66]

Awesome picture of the KoMotion car.
Welcome to this the site!

-Dan

[stranger]

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I am new to this site, just discovering it a few weeks ago. Having grown up on the island some of my finest memories are of week nights and Saturday afternoons in Baldwin Chevrolet's showroom drooling over the Motion cars! I have read every page of postings and downloaded all the pictures to my Motion file.
I remember a gloomy fall afternoon watching 2 '69 Motion Camaro's coming out of the service door. Both cars were 427's one having an era custom green and white flip flop paint job. They were being driven down to North Carolina to the new owners. The mechanics were joking regarding the likelihood of both making the trip unscathed with the big cams & steep gears.
I have a bunch of slides from 67-69 at Islip and West Hampton that I need to go through, I know there are some Motion cars in there. I'll need to have some prints made to scan and send in. I'm attaching a picture of the Astoria-Chas vette taken out at Hampton and an article on the Ribbon Camaro I had not seen posted.
Thanks again for the GREAT memories!!!

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Do you recall any of the 70 Chevelles at the dealership? The one that would have stood out was the white one with a tan vinyl top.

[stranger]

Actually, the top was white vinyl, sorry