1969/1970
Car and Driver Blue Maxi Camaro"Readers' Choice Ballot your chance to vote for the best cars in the world and perhaps win the Blue Maxi." (January 1970 edition of Car and Driver)
“We drove it around for a while, gave it away in a drawing,…”
“The guy who’d won the car from us was intimidated by the adulterated nature of the car and traded it in for a new ’70 Z/28.”
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15363103/maxi-mum-rocknroll-our-old-project-camaros-alive-in-new-jersey/“Jerry Schmidt is Blue Maxi’s second owner. He not only read about it when it was a magazine project car, but he also heard about it coming into the Chevy dealer he worked at in 1970, Fahrenkopf Chevrolet in Garfield, New Jersey. Jerry was having lunch at a nearby hot dog stand when the Blue Maxi’s first owner—who’d won it in a prize drawing by the magazine—came in.”
“We were talking, and he said that he’d bought a new ’70 Z28. I asked what he was getting rid of, and he told me it was the one he won,” Jerry recalled. “I said, ‘All right, I’ll stay after work and put plates on your new one.’ So, I went back to work, and I said, ‘You’ve got a ’69 Camaro coming in on a trade tonight, and I want to buy it.’ That’s how I got it.”
“Blue Maxi had about 19,000 miles on it then and a history that your typical “OK Used Car” didn’t have—one its winner and first owner was suspicious of. “He only had it about three or four months,” Jerry said. “His quote to me one time was, ‘I don’t trust it because it had been raced and rallied.’ He wanted a ’70 Z28, so after he won the car, he used it as a down payment to get a new ’70.”
http://www.superchevy.com/features/1407-1969-chevrolet-camaro-ss-rs-the-blue-maxi-lives“The Blue Maxi led a tough life in the few months before Car and Driver gave it away in a sweepstakes. The winner, wary of the abuse the Camaro had endured during the 19,000 miles showing on its odometer, took it to Fahrenkopf Chevrolet in Garfield, N.J., and traded it in for a 1970 Camaro Z/28.”
https://www.hagerty.com/media/people/car-and-dirver-blue-maxi-camaro/“After having fulfilled their mission to “prove that a mere automobile can transcend the obvious device of transportation and become an experience,“ Car and Driver held a raffle for the car only to see the winner quickly trade it in for a new 1970 Camaro.”
https://www.historicvehicle.org/classic-spotlight-1969-chevrolet-camaro-blue-maxi/“The Camaro was won by Nicholas Ferrara, a quality control specialist from NJ, and was then sold to Gerald Schmidt who worked at the dealership where the official "winner" of the car traded it in for a new Z28 within a few months of winning.”
https://www.yenko.net/forum/showthread.php?p=764611 See scanned color copies of both of the Car and Driver articles concerning the 1969 Blue Maxi Camaro on this CRG thread:
http://www.camaros.org/forum/index.php?topic=12050.0(July and August 1969)
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