ASTORIA CHAS: KO-MOTION L88 STING RAY

Posted on November 28, 2025November 28, 2025 by MartynL

Corvette Report’s Scott Teeters blogs about New York's ASTORIA CHAS: KO-MOTION L88 STING RAY, the Buddy Holly of drag racing! As a lad growing up during the muscle car era in the South Jersey/Philadelphia area, http://Hi-Performance CARS Magazine was my favorite car magazine. The publication had a definite East Coast flavor, and slightly favored Chevys, which was perfectly fine with me at the time. One of my favorite cars of the day was the KO-MOTION L88, 1967 http://427 L88 drag rac...

JOEL ROSEN: BALDWIN-MOTION SUPERCARS

Posted on May 9, 2020May 9, 2020 by MartynL

Hagerty’s Reggie Horning blogs about the man from Motion who earned his cred the old fashion way - a quarter-mile at a time – and the Supercars he built between 1967 and 1974! If you lived in Brooklyn in the early-1960s and drag raced a fuel-injected Corvette or a Chevy powered by a Rochester-injected small-block, you would’ve known Joel Rosen, right w/"Astoria Chas" Snyder, tuning Chas' Corvette. He owned Motion Performance, a local speed shop known for his dynamometer tuning of record-sett...