Baldwin-Motion Performance

• Beginning in 1967, the Baldwin Auto Company, a Chevrolet dealership founded in the 1920s, partnered with Motion Performance, a well-known builder of customized performance cars, to create Baldwin-Motion Performance Group, a company designed to produce and market a series of limited edition high-performance cars based on production Chevrolet models. Between 1967 and 1974, Baldwin-Motion Performance produced super-powered versions of the Camaro, Nova, Chevelle and Corvette. These cars were equipped with big-block engines that produced between 425 and 500 horsepower.
  
  

Phase III Supercars

• The Baldwin-Motion Performance Phase III cars, including the Phase III GT Corvette, featured 427 and 454 cubic-inch engines that output at least 500 horsepower, as opposed to their SS model cars, which produced a mere 425 horsepower. The company was so sure of the performance of its cars, that it issued a guarantee that each street legal vehicle would be able to achieve 120 mph in 11.5 seconds when driven by a race-certified driver on an official drag strip.
  
  

Phase III GT Corvette

• Between 1969 and 1971, Baldwin-Motion Performance produced approximately 10 Phase III GT Corvettes -- the extremely limited production making them some of the most valuable of the company's supercars. The cars were based on production models retuned and customized with additions such as a new cam, new headers, a high-rise intake, a three-barrel carburetor and duel electric fuel pumps.
  
  

Exterior

• Each Phase III GT Corvette was custom-made to order, and no two of them were exactly alike. Typical GT modifications, however, include a fastback rear window, a hood scoop, custom side louvers, custom taillights, custom side mirrors, new gas filler cap, flared fenders and fixed headlights that replaced the retractable factory headlamps. Baldwin-Motion Performance trademarked the custom GT paint scheme.