More old photos

[427TJ]

Motion show display. You could talk with Joel Rosen himself and discuss how you wanted your '69 Motion car optioned. You could even finance it through Baldwin Chevrolet. What--$500 down and you're off!

[Mike]

OKay....I think I've had enough!!! Where are all these cars and how come nobody is finding them?? Who's in for kidnapping Joel? Just kidding.

Great pics.

Mike

[COPO]

At SCR6, Joel Rosen was VERY specific that they had no idea of the COPO program. The question was posed in response to the picture you posted. Today the Motion cars are tough to find for a variety of reasons including the fact that most lived a very hard life on the street and track as well as all of the salt used during the winter the N.E. where most of these cars resided. Not to mention very few were built to begin with as they could get pretty pricey.

[mhassett]

Tom, I am not a 100% Sure because it is a black and white picture but supposedly they only made 3 and it is exactly like mine (no rear spoiler and not a Rally Sport) and Kevin S. has a rear spoiler. Mark <font color="666666"> </font>

[JChlupsa]

Who has this 68???

[copo9566aa]

427TJ Thanks
Great Pics
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At SCR6, Joel Rosen was VERY specific that they had no idea of the COPO program.
The question was posed in response to the picture you posted.

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And for Baldwin Chevrolet (Baldwin have no idea of the COPO
program) ???

[COPO]

[ QUOTE ]
And for Baldwin Chevrolet (Baldwin have no idea of the COPO program) ???

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John Mahle(sp?) the Baldwin Chev. Parts Manager was also at SCR6 and agreed that they knew nothing about the COPO program.

[427TJ]

Boy, if it's not a COPO that makes it hard to explain the origins of this car. (I attached the photo again.) Could the owner have bought a COPO elsewhere and taken it to Motion for modification? Man, that sure looks like a COPO with the bowtie grille emblem and no displacement emblems. Yeah, Motion swapped emblems on most of the cars. Another mystery to be solved by someone out there.

[micky69396]

Any BM chevelle articles? You never see anything on them.

[Pantera]

That is just a std camaro and could have started out as a 6 cyl even. It is just a std hood with a 67 vette scoop on it. I think we are wishing, when the thought of a Copo comes along but Joel would use what ever he could get his hands on quick if he had a sale. In fact he said it himself that he was not aware of the Copo program or beleive me he would have taken advantage of it.

That actually looks like a 6 cyl car to me. Just remember he was selling horsepower and who cared about what it came in. For that price it was a real bargain!!!! I bet he was making pretty good money on the cars two ways. He could buy them wholesale and then sell the orignal motors out of them for probably almost as much as he had to pay Chev for the new crate motors.

My cousin was the parts Mgr of Bill White Chev in Tulsa and I blew up my 283 in my car. I paid $195 for a 375 hp 327 shortblock back when they first came out. My 57 chev was a real badass for about 3 months till everybody found out and would not race me for money anymore.