1969 Chevrolet Camaro "Blue Maxi Z/29"

Even as GM prepared the second-generation Camaro for 1970, C/D was still playing with the '69. Our "Blue Maxi" remains one of the magazine's most indelible project cars. "The Company Car: a dazzling, dizzying blue wonder that had no easy goals to meet," we wrote. "It would have to handle with its Trans-Am brothers and do us justice on the drag strip. At the same time it would have to be tractable on the highway and it would have to be a credit to its publisher. Mostly it had to represent everything we thought was right about the automobile in an atmosphere of increasing criticism of anything with four wheels—especially four fat wheels."