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A REMARKABLY WELL-PRESERVED
EXAMPLE OF THE KIND OF
SUPER-TUNED MUSCLE CAR THAT
DOMINATED BOTH CLANDESTINE
DRAG RACES AND THE DREAMS
OF YOUNG MAGAZINE-READING MADE IN
GEARHEADS ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
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you will, ultimate street cars, because you could get Society (NCRS) confirms its GM official production
whatever you wanted,” Rosen told this writer in an date as November 22, 1967, and the original dealer as
interview for a muscle car book project. Baldwin Chevrolet. The car’s original cowl tag confirms

The unrestored black 1968 Baldwin-Motion Camaro it was a factory black/black build. The engine has its
RS/SS shown here, offered with No Reserve at the 2023 original broach marks and a machine code of T1117ID
Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale Auction, has all that speed indicating a November 17 assembly as 425hp; cast K77
shop hardware on full display. It is a remarkably well- indicating a November 7, 1967, casting pour with 840
preserved example of the kind of super-tuned muscle square port heads; and cast K27 indicating a November
car that dominated both clandestine drag races and the 2, 1967, casting pour. The car has its original body
dreams of young magazine-reading gearheads across panels and paint with some touch-ups, and the original
the country. interior features a Motion-installed Sun tachometer and
the original Hurst shifter.
The car maintains its original 427/425hp V8 installed
by Motion Performance, and still has the original GM So many Baldwin-Motion muscle cars were cut up and
intake with Motion Performance 3-barrel carburetor thrashed at the racetrack or parted out after a brief
modification and an original 3-barrel Holley carburetor, career of street racing that encountering a genuine
fed by a trunk-mounted electric fuel pump and topped unrestored example with its original 427/425hp
by a Motion-installed “Fly Eye” air cleaner. GM engine and speed parts installed by Motion
Performance is a true find. This Camaro’s next
Its M21 close-ratio 4-speed manual transmission with performance won’t be a street race on a pre-dawn New
a GM matching VIN stamp is teamed with a Motion- York boulevard, but rather under the bright lights of
installed early-style Lakewood bellhousing with a two- Barrett-Jackson’s auction block, where it will enjoy a
piece inspection cover and a Motion-installed original different type of competition as bidders race to see who
aluminum Schaefer flywheel. Underneath, the original will take the car home.
traction bars made by LAB Machine are attached to the
original GM 4.56 posi-traction-coded rear end with – Steve Statham
For up-to-date information on this vehicle, visit Barrett-Jackson.com
stick-welded tubes by Motion Performance.
The documentation is thorough on this special 18 GAUGE • FULLY WELDED • LIFETIME WARRANTY
Camaro. A letter from the National Corvette Restorers
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