I miss my Camaro! In early 2001, I made an impulsive purchase of something I had always wanted, but knew my Dad would absolutely not approve of — he hated Chevy cars / trucks with a passion. He was a Ford guy through and through.

Regardless, I decided a Camaro was in my future and absolutely fell in love with a very slightly used 1999 Royal Blue Camaro. It only had 8,000 miles on it when I signed the paperwork. I did not realize until after I had purchased the car, and went to add it to my insurance what I truly had.

Apparently my new car was what some call a “sleeper” car. Meaning it had no decals on it anywhere to indicate it was a more powerful beast than I thought. The dealership never mentioned it either as I had told them I was looking for a V6 Camaro. Turns out, this big beautiful blue beast was a Z28 with a 6-speed manual, .357 engine. Of course, the bigger surprise I got when I went to insure it was that because it was actually V8 and not the V6 I thought I had purchased, I was going to be charged “sports car” premiums on the insurance. Lucky me….

It turned out to be okay though — I had already fallen in love with car from the moment I first set eyes on it and I wasn’t about to returning it because of that. I kept the car about 10 years and never had an issue with it — I loved driving it and of course got a couple of speeding tickets in it — would you really expect anything less? LOL It was a great car and I was reluctant to get rid of it in early 2010, but kind of had to because baby Derek would be born a little over a month later at the end of February. Bye bye fun sports car — hello Mini Van! Hee hee

So, when I saw this puzzle online I just “HAD” to get it. It had a picture of a similar version as mine, and also had every other generation of the Camaro from its initial rollout back in 1967 (still my absolute favorite body style) to the sleek and modern retro-styled version of today.

Not only was this puzzle a lot of fun from a Camaro lover’s standpoint, but the quality of the puzzle was great too. A nice smooth, non-glare matte finish and a relatively easy assembly. Given this one had a lot of blue and red cars to do, I started with the yellow, orange, and green just to make it a little easier. Well, technically that’s not true either. I actually started with all the statistic paragraphs first. I figured those might be difficult as each paragraph was formatted the same way with similar statistics about top speed, total body weight, etc., but surprisingly this turned out to be one of the easiest parts to assemble. I had those whipped into shape in no time at all.

Really the only “somewhat” difficult part was the grey border edge. I kind of did the border as I went along and where it was obvious that I needed a specific piece. Toward the end, as seems to be normal with me now, I was just ready to be done with the puzzle and move on to something new. Even tried, with no luck, to get my puzzle friend Stacey to come over and put in a few pieces for me — she flat out refused! What nerve! LOL

As I was reflecting on my many adventures with my Camaro it dawned on me that I didn’t have any pictures of my beautiful blue beast! So, lo and behold Google images came to my rescue. So this is not “my” Camaro, but it’s the same year, same color and model. This one just has the Z28 emblems on it.