Martyn L. Schorr, the former editor of Cars magazine and High Performance Cars in the 1960s and '70s and who produced the ads and catalogs for Motion Performance, New York's premier musclecar builder and tuner in the golden era, has penned what should be the definitive volume about the history of this magical place in a magical time.

We'll let Marty tell the story"

"After almost two years, my epic thriller that names names and tells where the bodies are buried is available on the Internet and in book stores worldwide!

"Motion Performance, Tales Of A Muscle Car Builder chronicles the rise, fall, and rise of Joel Rosen, the kid from Brooklyn who drove and dyno-tuned his way into the AHRA and NHRA record books and the Motion and Baldwin-Motion (Phase III and SS-427 & 454 Chevys) brands. There’s also coverage of other legendary Motion-badged cars: small & big-block Cobras, and giant-killing VWs that  owned NHRA’s H/Gas class!

"I was involved with Motion's Joel Rosen between 1966 and 1974 to create Baldwin-Motion and grow the brands. We also built Motion Minicar (modified VWs), the Motion Supercar Club and Phase III Publishing, a book publishing company."
 
Published by MBI (Motorbooks International), the hardcover book has 176 pages and 262 period and modern black and white and color photos from Schorr's archives and private collections.