Rolling Thunder

Mention the words Baldwin Motion to a muscle car enthusiast and their eyes will widen and a smile will creep across their face.

Brooklyn, New York’s Joel Rosen was the man behind Motion Performance, which quickly became well known across America as a purveyor of super performance cars that were terrors on the street and strip. These were the days when you could already buy high performance models from American car dealers across the States, but Rosen recognised there was a desire for more. Much more.

Between 1967 and 1974, in partnership with Baldwin Chevrolet, Rosen and his team of mechanics took