Possible '69 Motion Phase III GT/L-36 Test Mule

[viscos]

I bought this Corvette shell about two years ago. Check out my pics gallery. Any info is helpful, Thanx. Joel Rosen is the King of the supercars!

[Dog427435]

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Check out my pics gallery.

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Where?

[SuperNovaSS]

Gallery

[55chevy]

That's not a Phase III GT.

[x Baldwin Motion]

what do you think it is Ed? (don't say POS or spoiled specimen) I do remember at least one vette with those firebird tail lights?

[x Baldwin Motion]

VISCOS : "My dream is to have Joel Rosen run the numbers and document her, restore her, then sell her at Barrett-Jackson. I hate to try to sell her, but I hate even more to see such a rare and beautiful Vette go to the crusher. Any info is helpful."



SELL IT !!?? drive it like it was meant to be driven !!

[55chevy]

Looks like an owner modified car to me. I do know what it's not.. it's not a Phase III GT car. ALL the GT's had the slanted rear window.

[olredalert]

------Ed,,,I have the utmost respect for your knowledge of these rare cars, but Id like to ask a well intentioned question. If a well healed customer walked into Joels office and wanted a Phase III GT but said he didnt care for the back window and preferred a Phase III GT with a stock rear window would Joel have ushered him out the door???........Bill S

[55chevy]

Bill.. the rear window IS what made the car the Phase III GT.. Any other Motion Vette without that window is just a Motion Vette with custom body work. I don't know how many guys think the Ferrari style headlights make it a GT.. It does not. The rear window does. Joel said he made 10 Phase III GT Vettes. All of them except the Prototype had the Full GT treatment, the centerpiece being that GT rear window. Larry Clain had a lengthy in-depth converstation with Joel about the GTs at the SCR6 I believe. Next to Joel, Larry probably knew more about the GTs than anyone else. He owned 2 of the 10. He was in communication with several other GT owners and past owners and had been constantly researching them for years.. Even so far as speaking at length with Joel about them back in 1974 when he first bought the Prototype GT and Joel was still building these cars. And for a few years before Larry died, I was helping research them as well.. And during the few years I knew Larry he shared all the knowlege he had about them with me. I certianly don't claim to be a know-it-all.. but on the subject of the Baldwin/Motion Phase III GT Corvettes.. I know a lot more than most.. So to answer your question, No Joel wouldn't have ushered a buyer away.. But the buyer would not have gotten a GT.. just a Motion Vette with some of the body goodies. (Phase III? ..SS427?.. Take your pick).. Don't forget other companies back then offered these same fiberglass parts that Joel put on the GTs. I've seen several of those Ferrari style front ends on Vettes that weren't even Motion cars. Take Jamie Jarvis's beautiful '68 Vette for instance. It' got the GT front end and hood on it and other Motion mods. But it has the stock rear window.. It's not a Phase III GT and it was an owner built car using genuine Motion parts.

When a car shows up in this kind of shape a lot of homework needs to be done. Ask Jamie about that. He found out what his car actually was, and restored it as such. And he doesn't try and portray it as something else. I think that's what needs to be done with this car. Figure out what it actually IS.. before you start calling it something it isn't..

[ronebee]

per pictures, car has a 73 soft bumper nose like used on the Manta Rays, interesting car, comments in the photo section make it interesting, with no vin# on the body, how the hell would you get this thing on the road? anybody know what region 00 is and what dealer in #502? I agree this is not on of the phase III cars (whatever my opinion is worth)