Good Old Days

[olredalert]

----Yup, Marty,,,and also the rest of the drivetrain was up to the task (rear, springs, trans, etc., etc.). It would have been an expensive deal to pull a 6-cyl car up to 427 standards!!!.....Bill S

[W117Monte]

Where did the 396s go? Back to Baldwin or did Motion sell them.

[Martyn L. Schorr]

Essentially they went back to Baldwin Chevrolet where the Parts Dept (John Mahler) sold them.

[starrider]

Marty, this was stated earlier in the post - "i believe Hi Performance Cars magazine (October 1967) has a 6 page article on this car with pictures. Page 16 mentions it was an original 6 cylinder car".

[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

[JoeC]

I think it was a SB V8 car although the article states it was a six.

There are early pictures of it with SB V8 flag on the fender in the stock location but no SS emblems or nose stripe.

The later photos show a 427 V8 flag on the fender in the stock 396 location