1969 GTO Judge ORIGINAL OWNER sitting since 1980!

This 1969 Pontiac GTO Judge was bought new in 1969 by the same owner who has it today! He used it for a few years. An individual rear ended the car, and it was fixed and then put away. The owner is in the construction business. When he was building his shop, he put down a new concrete floor. As soon as it had set, he drove the GTO into the shop to keep it safe, and never drove it again! It hasn't moved since 1980!
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[@TheMrmmkkpro]

As a certified Pontiac freak, I'm loving this bad boy. Give her a wash, get her running and drive this bad boy. I bet the engine is stoll good, oil change, tune up, rebuild the carburetor, fresh 108 octane fuel,fresh battery. Amazing find, these years are what I remember from the early 70s.👍🏁👍🏁

[@AutoArchaeology]

Here's hoping it is all good!

[@kgc.tanto8902]

This is my DREAM CAR , I love that they found it. Maybe one day I'll get one if I can afford it. BEAUTIFUL CAR!!!!

[@HarleyHawk1]

I agree, Id just wash it and drive it. Nice car with a four-speed and ram air. sweet

[@joequillun7790]

Ditto on that.

[@jamesthompson8008]

Very cool to find the ol' family musclecar still with it's family! Thanks for posting.

[@devillockj]

Hey Ryan, I remember well over a decade ago when you were posting your finds on moparts. Happy to see you’ve expanded on your hobby! The videos are great!

[@AutoArchaeology]

Yes sir! Over 10 years now! Happy to hear you enjoy the videos.

[@dougpeters1625]

Be still my beating heart! What an incredible find. The family photos are amazing, what history. I wonder where his 1966 goat is these days, that makes me weak in the knees also!

[@AutoArchaeology]

Right?!

[@novawagon1965]

Cool car hope they get it out and drive it. I know plenty of guys that used to run snow tires because they couldn't afford slicks and snow tires are a soft compound tire so they worked pretty good nice video.

[@AutoArchaeology]

That's true, this was for snow though!

[@tonyroig1932]

A beautiful find .

[@puddleduckist]

What an amazing find and the fact he still has it and it's original. I have a 69 gto I've owned 30 yrs, mines not a judge but has the spoiler and hood tach. Love me some pontiacs, awesome car! Get er running again and row them gears and lay some rubber!

[@AutoArchaeology]

Sweet! I think that's the plan

[@rogereyre6933]

He'll ya bro

[@bobsilver3983]

awesome find!

[@jeffhyde7934]

Wish I would've met you when I lived in Dekalb, Illinois! There were a bunch of muscle cars just sitting in fields when I was growing up! Hell, my Dad and I restored a '70 Olds W-31 that we found in corn crib, now it's in a museum in Wisconsin! Today he drives a '72 Old 442 Convertible, during the summer. I myself drive an all wheel drive 99 Tahoe with a 470hp small block, soon to have twin turbos. Awesome videos!!!!

[@AutoArchaeology]

I lived in Dekalb for 4 years! So much good stuff out there.

[@jeffhyde7934]

That's Awesome!

[@mrbasshole301]

Beautiful.. My favorites are the 65' and 66's ..I was born in 66' .. I had a 72' Lemans.. it was that Butternut yellow color with a Stamped Brown Alligator pattern real leather top .. sharp as all hell and ran like a scalded dog .. sure miss that thing ..

[@rogerchevelle8543]

Very cool find. Would love to see it at Mcacn.

[@gibsonexplorer8777]

That's unreal that car is worth big big money but I wouldn't sell it I would drive it and show it Pontiac #1

[@stevenhagebusch9561]

thats been my dream car since i was a young boy.....the judge started my pontiac addiction.......still chasing a goat but have 25 50-79 full size pontiacs.....including tri power and 4 speed cars

[@AutoArchaeology]

Awesome collection!

[@Pro.Performance]

I would buy it today if I could find it. That is my dream car and now I have the $ss to get one.

[@jerryblake4088]

My uncle had one, it was green, 400, 4spd.

[@thejudgefrom69]

Dream car!!

[@thomasalexander8420]

love the car

[@jimharris2452]

Now that's cool

[@oldskool1979]

wow.. thats insane !

[@todddenio3200]

I agree completely. Just wash it, get rebuild kits for the brake system and carburetor, oil the cylinders, change all fluids, flush out the gas tank, new battery and get it running and get new tires. Then DRIVE IT as is. DO NOT RESTORE IT. It is a fantastic survivor and is only original once. A friend of mine has 2 Judges. 1 he did a full restoration on that is identical to the one featured here only with a black interior. The other is a dark blue restomod that was already done when he bought it. The only thing that was changed on it is the engine and transmission which is an LS and automatic transmission. He tried finding the original engine and found out he missed it by a month when it had been hauled out as scrap.

[@AutoArchaeology]

I agree!

[@keithhebert9334]

You are not crazy that's what I would do get it out and drive it it's nice that he parked it in the 80 it's been protected and it is in good condition and yes if you take it out something could happen to it but you only live once drive it man it's been saved this many years get your phone out of it before it's too late what a lucky guy to have such a nice car

[@69judgeshack75]

My dad bought his Crystal Turquoise Judge Brand new in Late May 1969 and still has it. Have it listed in the 69 Judge Registry

[@AutoArchaeology]

Smart man!

[@erickort1987]

i call it pumpkin orange,lol

[@JoeLopez]

Damn. I agree. Get it running, safe and a bath. I’d be good to go!

[@robertgembala8532]

🤘

[@thescott9742]

save that car! i love it!

[@thomasalexander8420]

they love it so much they let it set like that

[@rodneystapler1213]

Brother had one in 1978 for $1000, drove the shit out of it also drank and smoke alot of hay in it.

[@plymouthduster225]

Nice find. That was always my favorite color for the 69 GTO. Any idea how many miles are on it? I bet it might be a pretty low mileage car.

[@AutoArchaeology]

Couldn't get inside. I think he said around 50k

[@k-love2262]

My dream car I will own one

[@smexycheetah6985]

We have this 69 Plymouth fury 3 convertible that has the 383 in it. Anyone know how rare those cars are?

[@winstonmccollum8992]

I can't understand treating the car this way........I have a 69 GTO convertible that I bought in 1972 and then converted it into a correct appearing orange Judge convertible after searching a year for a factory orange Judge convertible. I didn't realize at the time that only 108 of them were built, with only about 25 of them being orange so the odds of finding one used back then was negative zero. My car is correct in every way and loaded with 26 options....everything but power windows and power seat. My car has been babied for 50 years now and has always been an extremely nice car....whenever something wasn't perfect I always fixed it immediately. I know a lot of people treat their childhood musclecars like this one has been treated but i will never understand that mentality.

[@AutoArchaeology]

Time flies when you are doing family stuff!

[@jasonmacneil2256]

Ryan, thanks for your videos. Does this fellow have any thoughts of maybe selling her? I'm looking to buy and keep, not re sell!!!

[@AutoArchaeology]

This one will never be for sale he said.

[@jonathongriffith279]

Carousel Red was the same color code as Hugger Orange

[@meerkat9113]

How satisfying would it be to give that goat it's first bath??

[@AutoArchaeology]

Right?!

[@rogergoodman8665]

Cool Judge! 2 questions... Did you ask how many miles were on the car ? And why did they blacken out the prices on the build sheet? Blackening out the amounts makes no sense! Not very important I know but makes about as much sense as people blocking the licence plate with their thumb when they take rear end photos. The only thing I might be concerned about on the sheet is the vin # and they did not obscure it at all.

[@robertandersen2318]

They didn't say the engine size probably a 400

[@AutoArchaeology]

I did not do the blacking out, that's what they gave me. It's just a photocopy of I guess the sales form? And no, never got the mileage. Couldn't get inside.

[@blue68falcon]

thats sad

[@sammask8375]

Clean it up make it run and drive and don't molest it in anyway.

[@gw9017]

fore sale ?

[@joequillun7790]

How many miles on the odometer?

[@AutoArchaeology]

I believe it had like 30k

[@pre1980cars]

milage?

[@davidbrown-55]

The real kicker, what’s the price boss?

[@AutoArchaeology]

It wasn't for sale

[@S10lifted95]

I would pay to be able to wash that car and clean it out.

[@moparedtn]

Why the heck does anyone just park a car like this forever? Never understood that... Great find nonetheless.

[@Wooley689]

This happened a lot back then because of gas shortages and the cost of fuel versus fuel mileage. The nation was pushing the small engine, reduced horsepower and mandated 55 speed limits. You could pick up muscle cars back then for $800 or less as owners just parked the "Gas guzzlers" in driveways, yards and garages. Friend of mine bought a 1970 454 SS cowl induction Chevelle for the $800 price in high school.

[@moparedtn]

I was there. I saw the first "gas crisis" as a teenager; I "participated" in the second as a young driver. That doesn't begin to answer my question, though. There have been decades pass since then, after all - decades that have seen values on such cars climb to the point that you'd literally have to live under a rock not to know what they're worth at some point during the following 40+ years. Beyond that, even if you had no interest in values of things and weren't interested in ever selling, as an owner you'd want to at least keep such a car at least functional - and more likely, you'd want to fix it up at some point out of whatever love you felt for it that kept you from letting it go. The mentality of keeping something just for the sake of keeping it, not caring how much it deteriorated or whether it just was functional as is - that mentality is what I'm just not understanding. It's theirs, they own it sure - doesn't mean it makes sense to let it rot, whether it's a car or something else.

[@Wooley689]

@@moparedtn Sure I get you, but peoples life situations dictate what is more important and what isn't. Such as my Pops 1937 Cord Phaeton that sat in his garage and only was driven a handful of times after all of us kids came along. It was his dream car but it had to take a backseat after he got out of Navy, began a family and started a business.

[@moparedtn]

@@Wooley689 We've all been there (wow, a Cord!) as we age, sure - but at some point, as good *stewards* of special cars, we sometimes have to do the hardest thing, which is to get the car to someone who will look after it better than ourselves. All I'm saying.

[@Wooley689]

@@moparedtn I agree on that. Yep, a 1937 Cord convertible which came with a supercharged Lycoming V8. I have a newspaper article with photo of him with it in his Uniform back in the 1950's. He was a proud Aviator.

[@shannonbrunk189]

Yeah run it to a jiffy lube then through a car wash maybe twice then it's on. To hell with all that crap on them tv shows man drive that thing and mainly have fun dude.

[@69FlSHGUTS]

i could use another one......

[@AutoArchaeology]

lol

[@Acducec]

How much? Hehe

[@georgemattar1182]

I detail cars professionally. I would clean this car for free. Then he has to let me buy it.

[@AutoArchaeology]

Oh that's all!

[@johndillinger8482]

you couldnt wipe off the window to see inside,and move stuff out of the way to geta better video? jeez.

[@AutoArchaeology]

Nope, I didn't want to risk scratching the glass with the concrete dust, and I didn't have the time to unbury it.

[@scottmoore1530]

show us the ViN number for this car pal!

[@ludedude5228]

The mentality of these barn find owners is disgusting They have no desire to restore the car and just let their delusional youth memories let cars like these sit and rot like an old skillet sitting in a closet somewhere , till they die or pass it on to a relative Nice car, but the ignorance of letting a classic like this just fade away and used as a work bench is dumbfounding

[@AutoArchaeology]

That's incorrect, I know of plenty, like the AAR a few videos back that do get them going again.

[@lissaleggs4136]

Mine runs it has sat in garage like 25 years and did not allow spouse to drive it. So 42,000 on Odometer. Drove it to other house yesterday. Had to replace brake lines, fuel pump and fuel line from tank tho.

[@scottmoore1530]

iM IN MY LATE 50'S AND KNOW ALL THE FAKE STUFF . DON'T SHOW A CAR WITHOUT THE vin!

[@lissaleggs4136]

I wonder what happened to my 71 TA, I still have orig engine.

[@AutoArchaeology]

Good engine to have!

[@lissaleggs4136]

@@AutoArchaeology Rebuilt 455 HO with 1.65 ram air 4 rocker arms. 2.02 heads

[@rogereyre6933]

My dream car 69 judge best muscle 💪 car in 69

[@lissaleggs4136]

Them like truck tires

[@lissaleggs4136]

I have GTO 69 42,000 orig miles. Steering wheel like melting or something WTF..?

[@AutoArchaeology]

What?

[@lissaleggs4136]

@@AutoArchaeology Have to wear old gloves wheel is like covered in like tar.