Marty Schorr....Baldwin Motion book cars needed.

[Charley Lillard]

Nice review...

www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/automobiles/13car-books.html?_r=1

[Atuckman]

well done marty. congrats

[x Baldwin Motion]

MOTION PERFORMANCE

Tales of a Muscle Car Builder

By Martyn L. Schorr. Foreword by Joe Oldham.

310 photographs. 176 pages. Motorbooks. $35.

The last nail in the coffin of the classic American muscle car came in 1974, courtesy of the United States Justice Department. The government’s nine-pound hammer was the Clean Air Act. Rather than Carroll Shelby or other high-profile producers of “super muscle cars,” a young Long Island drag racer named Joel Rosen was chosen for the landmark cease-and-desist order.

The Environmental Protection Agency and the Transportation Department had been sniffing around Mr. Rosen’s shop, Motion Performance, in Baldwin, N.Y. Now, the agencies were demanding $10,000 for each piece of antipollution equipment discarded when cars like 90-horsepower Chevy Vegas were sold with 500-horse V-8s, financed and delivered by nearby Baldwin Chevrolet with factory warranties.

Martyn Schorr writes about these events as if he were there right from Motion’s beginnings in 1963 — which he was, in dual roles, as the editor of High-Performance Cars magazine who moonlighted as Mr. Rosen’s advertising guy. Thus was Mr. Schorr able to provide inside information about every model that flew the Motion Performance flag, from Cobras to VWs, along with terrific street, strip and shop photos.

The author also includes an illuminating introductory chapter, “Muscle in America,” that recaps the high-performance builders whose tradition Mr. Rosen upheld. Whereas other “hot-rod books” tend to be long on photography but short on accuracy and technical details, this rare exception excels on all counts.



I think I'll read it again tonight.

[JoeG]

Nice review from the Times.........It took a lot of work and time to put the book together...but Marty and those concerned did it right and the finished book is a nice testament to those who pioneered early on the American Musclecar idea and to Joel Rosen for carrying on the engineering inovations and ideas that made Baldwin Motion Performance one of the top performance shops and HI-PO dealerships back in the day.....Thanks for the memories..............JoeG..

[Xplantdad]

Hey Joe...no being a stranger, ya hear?

[Tracker1]

Got mine for Christmas. In a word: awesome.

[tom406]

I enjoy Marty's books, ever since I picked up his Quicksilver published books in the 80's. I see he's reprinted the two old Mopar Quicksilver editions into one modern printing:

http://www.amazon.com/Mopar-Performance-...5148&sr=1-2

Maybe a reprint of the Chevy and Pontiac ones is coming?

I got the Motion Book from Amazon recently. That, Colin's Shelby book and the "We Were Ramchargers" books are great gifts for us book buffs. Great job Mr. Schorr.