Car of the Week: 1970 Pontiac GTO Judge

Nice car.....if ya like goats.

One thing that seems kinda strange to me, he's running a regular WI registration plate on the front and a WI collector plate on the back. Definitely not legal, it can only be one or the other. :naughty:
 
meh its still a rebadged lemon/tempy to me...id rather see one of them...kinda like seeing a stock satty instead of a gtx/rr clone
 
At least the GTO's were infinitely better looking than the Chevelles! :D I like the GTO's styling, just not a fan of convertibles.:dgt:
 
I almost bought a '69 Judge hardtop way back in the late '80s. It was a very-nice RA-III/4-speed car, Carousel Red of course. I passed because I didn't like the non-hideaway headlamps... and $2500 seemed like a lot of money at the time.

Considering the way I treated the car I bought instead--my Challenger--it's probably better for the Goat that I didn't buy it. Besides, the Challenger was 1/5th the price, and actually a little quicker... probably because due to rust, it weighed half a ton less than the GTO. :D
 
These are the only GM's that would grace my garage...
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Dr.Jass said:
Considering the way I treated the car I bought instead--my Challenger--it's probably better for the Goat that I didn't buy it.
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poncho motors don't take excessive abuse. They're well known for soft crankshafts. [smilie=f:
 
I'm still stuck with wanting a '77/'78 TA. Those cars just looked really aggressive and the face of the car at certain angles just looked like a pissed off predatory bird of sorts. Admittedly I fell for those cars due to a certain movie but I still want one! :) It doesn't even have to be black! :D
 
Just look for one of the oddball TA's with the Olds 403. Then you'll have a gussied up camaro with an Olds engine. :bwuhaha:
 
The '70-'73 Chickens were the one of the prettiest cars GM ever built... and at least by the time GM started the crap with the small-block Olds in '77, it was only available with an automatic, for the sissy crowd. Order an auto, you get the Olds. Order a stick, hey! A Pontiac engine! You can tell which is under the hood from 50 feet away: "6.6 Litre" is an Olds, "T/A 6.6" is the Poncho. They even used different shaker scoops; the four-speed cars' bubble riding higher.

68, I always thought it was Pontiac rods that were crappy... they were cast iron, instead of steel (except in certain cases). I will say this: that 400 in my Trans Am took more than its share of pounding, both while I had it and after (it ended up in a low-12 Grand Prix, if you can believe that). It ate the RH head gasket a lot due to bad machining, but I held 'er to the pin from slgihtly south of Pembine, WI to Amberg showing an indicated speed of 160+ (an actual 143 or so after I worked it out later) and an engine speed of 6,300 the entire time. There was this cop, and... never mind. He never caught me, even though I slowed and he caught up to me. He'd have gotten me, too, had there not been a serious accident a few miles back to which he had to respond. He turned around, I floored it again.

I would never attempt that with a Pontiac engine today. Back then, I didn't know better... and if you know, it will happen. If you don't, it doesn't seem to. :D

That's another one for the "Jass Hole". 57 minutes door-to-door, from my parents' house here in Kingsford to a house off of Webster Ave a mile or so north of 172 in Green Bay... I never beat Freddy, though. He did it in under 50 minutes in his '74 Cuda...with a 318, no less. :doh: Gotta love those 2.76 gears when you're late for work. :dance:

The bastard also beat my T/A with his Shelby Charger, but only because we were both stupid enough to start a race at a 100MPH roll. :D

How I'm still here, I'm at a loss to explain.
 
I once went from my house in Montgomery, AL, to being parked in the French Quarter in New Orleans in 3 hours and 20 minutes. We made Mobile, AL in an hour and 45 minutes. We spent about 10 minutes in Mobile gassing up and letting my buddy smoke a cigarette or two. The average speed for the entire trip, including the stop, was just over 98 mph. This was done in a stone stock '92 civic hatchback that I had at the time. This would have been about 1999 or so. It was a night trip and we never saw a cop the entire time. My thinking was that the car would do 132, and a cop crown vic would do about 132, so they'd never catch me, and they wouldn't get a good description if I whizzed past them at 132 at night. Maybe the logic was flawed, but we made it there in record time.
 
That is my Father's car, that I now own. Has had the body done once, but only has 42000 miles on it. 318 poly/auto trans. Love driving that car, even with no power/ 4 drum brakes and no power steering.
 
sometimes the real fun of a car is in what it DOESNT have.....my 58 ford was the same way but being a super strip down..i had to add discs up front but its still all manual....to give an example..the "big" a body drums on the front of my 67 cuda stopped better than the ford
 
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