1970 Pontiac GTO JUDGE on MUSCLE CAR REVIEW #3! plus bonus footage!

1970 Pontiac GTO JUDGE on MUSCLE CAR REVIEW #3! plus bonus footage!
'70 Judge! on MUSCLE CAR REVIEW #3
...how many are left?
with bonus footage @ 1:40 when I was 17
up next?
'37 Nash resto.
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It is very difficult not to notice when the JUDGE cruises by. Beginning in `69, Pontiac packed all its performance options for the muscle bound GTO into one hot and flashy package called THE JUDGE, and a strong case can be made for what rests under the hood.
For 70 Pontiac exposed the headlights and shortened the dual grill. The Judge packed a new paint scheme, decals, dual ram air, front air dam, trunk spoiler hood tach, discs, a high comp. 455 / Hurst shifted 4 gear / 12b 4:33 combo to keep the Rustangs and Dodges way behind. This cars twin brother was the LS6 Velle, which is a good car if your an old man :)
The Judge remained available as an option on GTOs till 71. The Judge came standard with the Ram Air III, while the Ram Air IV was optional. Though the 455 CID was available as an option on the standard GTO throughout the entire model year, the 455 was not offered on The Judge until late in the year. "Orbit Orange" became the new standard color for the 1970 Judge, but any GTO color was available on The Judge. Striping was relocated to the upper wheelwell brows.
The '69/'70 'Round-Port' RA IV engine, a derivative of the '68½ 'Round-Port' RA II engine, was the most exotic high-performance engine ever offered by PMD and factory-installed in a GTO or Firebird. The 1969 version had a slight advantage as the compression ratio was at 10:75:1 as opposed to 10.5:1 in 1970. It is widely known that PMD was losing $1,000 on every RA IV GTO and Firebird built, and the RA IV engine was highly under-rated at 370 hp
A new and short-lived option for 1970 was the Vacuum Operated Exhaust (VOE), which was vacuum actuated via an underdash lever marked "EXHAUST." The VOE was designed to reduce exhaust back pressure to increase power and performance, but it also substantially increased exhaust noise. The VOE option was offered from November 1969 to January 1970. Pontiac management was ordered to cancel the VOE option by GM's upper management following a TV commercial for the GTO that aired during Super Bowl IV on CBS January 11, 1970. In that commercial, entitled "The Humbler," which was broadcast only that one time, a young man pulled up in a new GTO to a drive-in restaurant with dramatic music and exhaust noise in the background, pulling the "EXHAUST" knob to activate the VOE and then left the drive-in to do some street racing. That particular commercial was also canceled by order of GM management. Approximately 233 1970 GTOs were factory built with this rare option including 212 hardtop coupes and 21 convertibles, all were "YS" 400ci 350 hp/with either four-speed manual or Turbo Hydra-matic transmissions. This particular GTO in the commercial was Palladium Silver with a Black bucket interior. It was unusual in several respects as it also had the under-dash "RAM AIR" knob just to the right of the VOE knob, and it sported '69 JUDGE stripes, as a few very-early '70 GTOs could be ordered with. It also had a Turbo Hydra-matic transmission, remote mirror, Rally II wheels, A/C, Hood Tach, and a new-for-1970 Formula steering wheel.
GO PONTIAC!

[@capecodcuda]

i grew up in the city of Boston & we used to bumper ski the MBTA public buses & neighborhood cars all the time ;)~

[@brenzinc]

...ah, the good ole days! So much fun! Thanks for watchin!!!

[@pjy42]

Stunning looking car the gto