71 Motion Camaro questions.............

[Rat_Pack]

Did all of the 71 Motion Camaros get electric fuel pumps? Also if the car was equipped with the factory tach and gauges did they still get the aftermarket tach and gauges? The stripes on non Z-28 cars were the wide single stripe, did all of them have that stripe on the roof?.................RatPack..............

[COPO]

My '71 BM Camaro started life as a Z-28 prior to the installation of the LS-6 by Motion. It seems like the Z-28's did not get the roof stripes only the cars that started life as Super Sports got them. I believe Kevin's is the same way. My car also has a Motion installed Sun tach in addition to the full factory Z-28 gauges. My car does not have an electric fuel pump, but has a hi-perf. mechanical one. Not sure how common this was. Seems like the older BM's had the dual trunk mounted electrics. Hope this helps. It's hard to get good information on the BM's as they didn't build many and they don't seem to get out of the garages often.

You seem to be asking a few of questions about '71 BM Camaros lately, did you locate one??

[Edited by COPO (12-29-2001 at 07:18 AM).]

[Rat_Pack]

Does your car have underdash gauges or a console? The only 71 Motion car I have seen is Mike's and that is only from pictures. His car started life as a Z also. I am more interested in the ones that started out as an SS or base V-8 Camaro. Just wanting to learn as I have not found one, yet.............RatPack...................

[COPO]

No console on mine and no under dash gauges.

I do not believe any of the BM cars started out in life as base models. The whole premise of producing the cars cheaply was the original engine or short block could be re-sold by the Baldwin Chev. parts department. I believe they all started as SS or Z-28's. The 67-69 cars I have seen were all original SS cars. The '70 and later camaros seem to have started as both SS and Z-28's, but predominantly Z-28's.

I have most of the Hi-Performance CARS magazines and Speed & Supercar magazines from that era that feature many BM's and don't recall ever seeing a base car.

Not saying this is absolute by any means, just basing it on what I have seen and learned to date. Was thinking a couple of other board members also owned BM Camaros. Perhaps they can add some additional info.

[Fhakya]

COPO, Has your '71 been in any publications? I'd love to see some pics! I'd also like to find some pics of Bill Ogle's car (green standard front SS). Anyone know him?

[AutoInsane]

Hummmmmmmmmmm....do I smell a feature car here?

[COPO]

My car has been featured in several publications. Here's a list:

1) Hot Rod; November 1980
2) Muscle Car Review; August 1989
3) Muscle Cars; March 1990
4) Chevy Action (cover car); March 1993 <=== I'm looking for this issue.
5) Muscle Cars Calendar; 1995
6) Muscle Car Review (cover car); October 1997
7) Used by ERTL for making the Red/White striped 1970 BM Camaro (have letter from Ertl)

The 10-97 MCR issue is probably the best as there are quite a few color pictures. The original owner is a dentist from PA who is still around. It was previously owned by John Scanelli and was restored by Greg Donahue, although it still has 80% original paint. I plan to bring the car to the next Supercar Reunion. See you there.

You can see Kevin's '71 BM Camaro in April/May '96 MCR (cover car). Do not know anything about Bill Ogle's green '71 other than caption that was in Chevy Rumble recently.




[Edited by COPO (12-30-2001 at 01:32 PM).]

[Fhakya]

I found some pics of Bill Ogle's '71. This one looks to be converted from a Z-28 (dual stripes) Lemme see if I can get this to work:






..and if that didn't work try this link:
http://krypton.mankato.msus.edu/~holmam/motion.html

-Mark Holman


[Edited by Fhakya (01-01-2002 at 07:46 PM).]

[COPO]

Nice Pics. Are those wheels Ansen Sprints?

[Rat_Pack]

That car looks great with those slot mags, not sure of brand, they all looked alike. Hey Whitetop you could probably help on this one.

I noticed one thing is that not all cars got the Motion fender emblem. It seems on some of the SS based cars he left the SS emblems on them and replaced the engine size with a 454 emblem from the Impala or from the Chevelle.

Hey is that exact hood still available anywhere? The Harwood hood does not have that long of a scoop on it. Also I was just looking through my old Motion catalog and noticed that he possibly built some of these hoods by bonding a scoop onto the stock hood as he did on some of the Chevelles. Any thoughts............RatPack..................