1969 Blue Maxi Z-29 C/D Camaro

[69Shelby]

I was digging through some of my old magazines and found a couple old Car and Driver Issues from Late 1969 with a couple feature stories on the Blue Maxi Camaro that was eventually given away to some lucky reader. I have not found anything on the net on this car. Does this car still exist? Any leads to other web sites with info on it? From what little info I found it was an RS/SS, 4-speed with a 1970 LT-1, and even A/C and they dubbed it the one and only "Z-29". Car is wearing some American Racing 200s and fat Goodyear rubber and looks plain wicked by 1969 standards!

[camarojoe]

There is some info about this car in John Hooper's 1969 Camaro Reference Book. 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. As of 1991, Schmidt still owned the car, and kept it very original, replacing only maintennence items. I don't know if he still owns it or not.

[Pantera]

RE:"Camaro was won by Nicholas Ferrara"


I wonder if he could have been related to Dennis Ferrara that drove for Motion?


Pantera

[Belair62]

That name is probably like Smith out there on the east coast !!! Lots of spaghetti benders out that way !

[hvychev]

There are more in Chicago starting with YOU!

[427450]

I remember seeing the Blue Maxi as late as about 1990. I saw it last in the Pocono Mts in PA at the International Camaro Club's national convention. The car was very nice at that time and I even still somewhere have a video I shot of it!