'68 Camaro A/MP race car

[NovaMob03]

Kim, you didn't 'ask' that question. You 'slurred' that question

[Dog427435]

Here is the definitive answer to that question - direct from Marty!

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Hi Glen:
I hope this settles the nonsense I've seen around this photo. Since I took the photo I know it's real.
He made just a couple of passes and I nailed the shot.
Somehow the shot on the Yenko website and what you have sent looks as though it may have been retouched.
I'm not sure if there was that much daylight under the wheels when I took it.
However, the wheels were up. It's the real deal. It was shot during actual dyno testing, not so I could get a shot pulling the wheels.
It was shot on a Saturday and the car was being readied for the track on Sunday.

Hope this helps,
Marty

[mudjnky]

If you look under the car you can see what appears to be a header collector and distortion in the picture which is probably heat/smoke

[Kim_Howie]

Glenn ask him if this is the A/MP car?

[Dog427435]

Kim

Same car - If you look closely you can see the lettering on the pass fender.
Those other shots with the Motion hood were taken at a later time.

[Kim_Howie]

Glenn you didn't have that lic plate on 69 camaro and race Englishtown in the 90's

[Dog427435]

Kim
I have had that number plate since about 1980/81 -
I did not renew it to the current style blue & white NY plate a few years ago as its much more lax in Pa.
That car has seen action from tracks on the Island to Cecil County, but mostly on the street.
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[Dog427435]

Hopefully the final word on this!




Believers & Non-Believers:
I noticed that there seems to be a controversy over the shot of daylight under the front wheels of the '68 Baldwin-Motion A/MP Camaro taken on Sunrise Highway. Non-Believers doubt the ability of the Camaro to actually pull the wheels on the street.

Since I'm the guy who took the photo with a real camera (Nikon FTN) and real film (Kodak TriX) and still has the negatives, I can assure you that this is the real deal.
It was during dyno-testing and Joel Rosen or Billy Mitchell backed it off the dyno and on to the street.
There were two passes and both times the car hooked up and yanked the front wheels. The headers were open which explains the "smoke" under the front of the car.
The car, sponsored by Motion Supercar Club and CARS Magazine, went on to set a number of NHRA National Records and drive Grumpy Jenkins crazy!

It was the poster car for our "Win On Sunday, Sell On Monday" program which established Baldwin-Motion
as the premier builder and marketer of niche market musclecars. And, we still are!

And no, neither Joel nor I have a clue as to where this car is today.
Enjoy,
Marty


Martyn L. Schorr
PMPR, Inc.

[Kim_Howie]

Jude I wont argue that one lots of them that night. Haven't drank at the reunion since.

[x Baldwin Motion]

""Sorry I am in the "Im again it club" ""

VW's stock forty HP easily modified with over the counter parts from Motion (minicar) to 100hp would easily get 4inches of air on both sides with pro trac 60's on a stock rear. BTDT