Good Old Days

[Martyn L. Schorr]

The original racecar-conversion and I believe the first demo car were not big-block cars, they were pulled off the Baldwin-Chevrolet lot. I think the first demo car was a small-block V8 car. After that cars were ordered with 396/375 engines to make conversion simpler and more economical (good return on takeout engines). When you build limited-production cars there are always some that deviate from the norm based on model availability, customer demands, etc.
It is safe to say that Baldwin-Motion cars were ordered from the factory with the highest horsepower powertrains available.
Marty