A few years ago I was planning to follow up my thread on Camaros at 1966 & 1967 Auto Shows with separate threads on 1968 and 1969 but my computer crashed and I lost all of my documents and files pertaining to this information. Luckily my photo collection was able to be salvaged. Anyway, while searching for something else on the internet I came across a picture that has come to light since I performed all of that auto show research. The picture is of the rear of the 1969 Jean-Claude Killy (JCK) Z28 concept car that appeared at both the 61st Chicago Auto Show (March 8-16, 1969) and the New York International Auto Show (April 5-13, 1969). The funny thing is the guy who posted it was able to connect the bits of scattered information located in a period magazine article on Killy written by Hunter S. Thompson like I had a couple of years ago to figure out that the JKC Z28 was painted a sky blue color, something I had not seen confirmed until I had done my research on the car.
Jean-Claude Killy was a French Olympic gold medal winning skier who was a paid spokesman for Chevrolet in 1969 and 1970. He appeared in television commercials, in print ads, voiced radio commercials and made appearances at Chevrolet displays at major Auto Shows among other things.
The 1969 Camaro Z28 concept car that was made to appear with Killy had some interesting characteristics that made it stand out from normal production Z28's. These include a roof ski rack and skis, rear snow tires, chrome rally wheels with no trim rings, molded in rear spoiler, molded in front and rear snow flaps, "seat covers made of Austrian ski sweaters," vinyl top, Endura front bumper, fender stripes, Z28 style stripes, Super Scoop hood, quad exhaust tips and JCK license plates.
While I can't confirm the following because of the loss of my computer files on the car, I did find a note where I had written that the JCK Camaro had a dark blue dashboard with wood grain, power windows and a light blue console. Seems plausible considering that the color of the car was sky blue but I'm not sure where I found this information.
The first two pictures appear on page 50 of
The Great Camaro written by Michael Lamm. The caption states, "Camaro studio turned out special Camaro for French ski champion Jean Claude Killy, with roof rack, built-in-spoiler. Killy made Chevy ads at the time." They were taken at the New York International Auto Show. I found copies of them on the internet at
www.tribuneauto.forumactif.comThe third picture is a cropped version of the second one showing the unique "sweater interior."
The fourth picture shows a young blonde woman named Linda wearing a Chevrolet Sports Department sweater leaning up against the rear of the JCK Z28. It was taken at the Chicago Auto Show. This is the photo that I had not seen before. It appears here:
https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2019/11/so-there-was-certainly-some-advertising.html
