AGUADILLA, Puerto Rico — Tuner Baldwin-Motion is only making a dozen of its big-block 1969 Camaros — and one of them is now headed to Puerto Rico.

This marks the first export of the Baldwin-Motion Camaro, which is priced at $169,000 for the SS-427 and $189,000 for the Phase III 540 model.

The lucky owner is Luis Felipe Cruz Morales, who is described as an avid participant in drag racing in Puerto Rico. His Baldwin-Motion Camaro will be painted Motion Red, with silver striping and a red leather interior. More to the point, it will have a 600-horsepower 540-cubic-inch engine — carbureted &mdash: and a modified TH-400 automatic transmission. It will also have 4-wheel independent coil-over suspension, quick-ratio steering, and big disc brakes, plus the modern convenience of air conditioning, the company says.

Baldwin-Motion is no stranger to Puerto Rico's hot-car culture. The company notes that back in the 1970s, it exported "a number of" engines and two other Chevrolet tuner cars, a Phase III Corvette and a V8 Vega, to the island. Baldwin-Motion also took part in exhibition races at the Caguas Drag Strip there.

Baldwin-Motion CEO Larry Jaworske enthuses that Cruz's Camaro will show his Puerto Rican competition "a red and silver blur and four Corsa exhaust tips" when he races his new big-block Chevy.

Source: Edmunds

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