AMC PONYCAR: 390 (SUPER) JAVELIN

Posted on February 7, 2026February 7, 2026 by MartynL

Late to the Ponycar Party, the AMC PONYCAR: 390 (SUPER) JAVELIN was a righteous competitor! With support from AMC’s manager of Performance Activities, Carl Chakmakian, and our friends at LAB Engineering, Motion Performance, and Pacers Automotive back in 1968, we transformed a stock 390 Javelin into a Super 390 Javelin. It turned out so well that I bought it! I had test-driven a 390 Javelin at a Press preview and really liked it. It wasn’t a rocketship for sure, but it had potential. Thanks t...

’68 BIG-BLOCK, LOW-BUCK CHEVROLET

Posted on April 5, 2025April 5, 2025 by MartynL

For less than $3,000, you could buy a Baldwin-Motion ’68 BIG-BLOCK, LOW-BUCK CHEVROLET with dyno-tuned 427/425 power, four-speed, and F41 suspension! Overshadowed by the SS-427 Impala in the late-1960s, few enthusiasts were aware that Chevrolet was building a low-end, two-door “post” Biscayne that could be optioned with a 425 horsepower 427 big-block and four-on-the-floor. In 1968, Baldwin-Motion’s entry-level SS-427 Biscayne Street Racer’s Special, with a dyno-tuned 427/425 big-block,...

BALDWIN-MOTION & THE GREATEST CAMAROS

Posted on August 20, 2024August 20, 2024 by MartynL

Joel Rosen, the dyno-tuning speed merchant from Brooklyn partnered with Baldwin Chevrolet, creating BALDWIN-MOTION & THE GREATEST CAMAROS. It’s been more than four decades since Joel Rosen and the partnership between Baldwin Chevrolet and Motion Performance, Baldwin, LI, NY, built and delivered the last Baldwin-Motion Supercar - an L88-powered 1974 Corvette. Yet fans are still in awe of the Man from Motion and his outrageous big-block Chevys that set NHRA-AHRA national records and c...

‘MAXIMUM BOB’ LUTZ, MODEL-BUILDER!

Posted on March 10, 2024March 10, 2024 by MartynL

In his retirement years, 92-year-old consummate carguy and 47-year automotive industry executive has a new title: ‘MAXIMUM BOB’ LUTZ, MODEL-BUILDER! While Robert A. Lutz, best known as “Maximum Bob”, was a top executive at BMW, Chrysler, Ford and General Motors, retiring as Vice-Chairman of GM in 2010, he collected scale models of iconic military airplanes, including ones that he owned and piloted. He also collected models of specialty cars. His go-to guy was Joel Rosen, best known for Bal...

JOEL ROSEN, AKA MR. MOTION

Posted on October 16, 2023October 16, 2023 by MartynL

Legendary builder of Baldwin-Motion Supercars and national record setting A & B/Modified big-block Camaros and Shelby Cobras - JOEL ROSEN, AKA MR. MOTION – has passed away. Joel “Mr. Motion” Rosen, Delray Beach, Florida, passed away peacefully surrounded by his family on October 9th, 2023, after battling bladder cancer for more than a year. He was just two weeks shy of his 84th birthday, and had been admitted to Hospice Care on September 30th. Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1939, he g...

CHEVY 427 BISCAYNE: STREET RACER’S SPECIAL

Posted on August 13, 2023 by MartynL

BALDWIN-MOTION'S CHEVY 427 BISCAYNE: STREET RACER’S SPECIAL offered the most blast-for-the-buck, plus the element of surprise. In 1978, Baldwin-Motion offered enthusiasts the largest selection of modified brand new Chevys in the field. In addition to its base 425-horsepower SS-427 Camaro and 500-plus-horsepower Phase III model, the Fantastic Five lineup included 427 Novas, Chevelles, Corvettes, or even a low-rent, full-size Biscayne. All nameplates could be fitted with a myriad of perfo...

MOTION MINICAR VW THUNDERBUG

Posted on October 15, 2022October 15, 2022 by MartynL

After setting records for two years in Baldwin-Motion’s A/MP Camaro, in 1970 Bill Mitchell shrinks the Supercar and continues his winning ways driving the MOTION MINICAR VW THUNDERBUG. New model introductions for 1970 reinforced Detroit’s accelerating love affair with performance. It was a new decade and carmakers continued seducing buyers with the most powerful Ponycars and Supercars yet. It was a boom year for Motown Muscle. And it was a record year for Baldwin-Motion and Motion Perfor...

BALDWIN-MOTION PHASE III SS427 CAMARO

Posted on June 20, 2022June 20, 2022 by MartynL

A rare, fully-documented ‘69 BALDWIN-MOTION PHASE III SS427 CAMARO, just out of a major collection, lands on Bring A Trailer. Let the bidding wars begin! It’s not often that a real-deal Baldwin-Motion Camaro, complete with documentation, paper trail and a history of time spent in major Musclecar collections, comes up for sale. Quality cars, like this one, usually change hands through private sales. Most of the ones you see on auction sites have stories, stories without a good ending! ...

BALDWIN-MOTION 11-SECOND 427 CHEVELLE

Posted on June 11, 2022June 11, 2022 by MartynL

Hemmings’ Jeff Koch checks out a BALDWIN-MOTION 11-SECOND 427 CHEVELLE, one of three built in 1969; the only one ordered to tow a Phase III 427 Camaro! Roberto Schneider could have purchased any number of cars he wanted in 1968, regardless of cost. The 18-year-old grandson of a wealthy Mexican industrialist who owned the largest bank in Mexico, lived on his family’s 90,000-acre ranch in Chihuahua. The ranch was known for raising the finest cattle in Mexico and, among other things, for ...

MOTION 482-INCH VETTE: THE BEAST FROM BALDWIN

Posted on August 4, 2021 by MartynL

The most powerful Phase III Corvette built in 1969 - MOTION 482-INCH VETTE: THE BEAST FROM BALDWIN was close, but not a true Baldwin-Motion car. It was a 600-horsepower Vette built on a brand-new Stingray from Reedman Chevrolet, supplied by purchaser David McCaughey, a returning Vietnam vet. After serving a couple of tours in Vietnam in 1968, McCaughey returned home to Southampton, PA and gave serious thought to buying the car he had been dreaming about for the past year - a super-perform...