Motion Performance: Tales of a Muscle Car Builder,   ISBN:9780760335383

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I enjoyed this book.
It was a pleasant journey back to when life and cars were allot simpler and enjoyable.

The pictures and insider look at the high performance car biz and the angles Joel Rosen employed were to sell his products were entertaining.

It was a great read for someone who lived during that era and remembers cars that defied logic but defined a period in time where excess was not enough.

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This book took me back to a time when I wish I was around! The pictures and stories are great. If you are into muslcle cars/Camaro's this is the book for you! I have read this book cover to cover more times than I care to talk about! One of the best books I have ever read!!! Buy the book and enjoy the ride of one of the best tuners ever to grace the streets of America!!!!

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great book, great history.......growing up on long island during the muscle car era, and new york national speedway, motion muscle cars were well known

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Well done. The book jumps around some chronologically, but is so full of fact and personal insights. I highly recommend the book to Baldwin Motion fans and car nuts in general.

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A great book and the writing is excellent. Top quality hard cover and paper stock- especially for the $. The book is basically broken down by year and model and the author goes thru what (if anything) was new from Motion for the year and then has pics and stories of certain cars. Lots of excellent high quality photographs and, as mentioned, many never before seen.

Constructive criticism: there is mention of the outrageous Motion ads (these were always in Hi Po Cars and Speed and Supercar magazine) but IIRC they only showed one. They should have included most or all of them in the book for the reader to see; the ads are the best evidence of what Motion Performance was all about. The brief history of the hi po car that was included was unnecessary: the book is about Motion Performance; we really don't need to read about the prior 60 yrs of performance cars- these were wasted pages. My biggest gripe is there are little to no production figures or even approximates; if the numbers don't exist that should've been stated; however, it appears Rosen kept his production records (although maybe not all?). They do mention the numbers for the rarest of the rare- but not, for example, how many 1969 427 camaros were produced. The lack of production figures is a glaring omission IMO. A few more paragraphs on the business itself would have been nice. It appears they ran a speed shop also but this was barely mentioned. As the business grew, approx how many employees did it have that yr? Little to no mention of the challenges/logistics of running it out of a 4? bay garage.

Overall, I loved the book.