1969 Pontiac GTO Judge Walkaround with Steve Magnante

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  • Опубликовано: 26 дек 2024

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  • @Daniel-fd3wp
    @Daniel-fd3wp Год назад +12

    This is one of the most Beautiful vehicles ever built. Great walk around Steve.And Super Shane 🎥.

  • @christolbert4628
    @christolbert4628 Год назад +13

    When I was in high school in the early 80's, worked at the local Piggly Wiggly. An older lady drove a GTO just like that. I asked her about it, she said that she co-signed with her son when it was brand new and he drove it a year or two and quit making payments. She payed it off and the rest is history.

    • @RoBFerGlaZit
      @RoBFerGlaZit 11 месяцев назад

      Who gives a rat shhhh about your piggy wiggly story what made you feel entitled to share your story do you feel that you're an important person....😂😂😂😂 just kidding brother I had you for a second there

  • @classified70
    @classified70 10 месяцев назад +3

    Steve I always love the way you articulate the words when talking muscle cars, I could listen to you all day. You are a scholar and a true professional at what you do.

  • @hosstompkins6340
    @hosstompkins6340 Год назад +13

    Actually Sammy Davis Jr. said the "here come the judge" and Arte Johnson played the judge.

    • @robinluck2922
      @robinluck2922 Год назад

      Pigment Markham, 1st sang "Here Comes the Judge" in 1968. Sammy just happened to say it on Laugh In. Pigmeat Markham 1968, Chess records.

    • @joequillun7790
      @joequillun7790 Год назад +3

      Artie never played the Judge.

    • @JerryDey
      @JerryDey 11 месяцев назад +1

      Flip Wilson was the Judge. Complete with the black robe.

    • @nozmind
      @nozmind 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@JerryDey he was The Judge on The Flip Wilson Show not Laugh-in

    • @gerry-p9x
      @gerry-p9x 8 месяцев назад

      Yup. Davis always played da judge

  • @michaelmacpherson-wm6mh
    @michaelmacpherson-wm6mh Год назад +4

    when i was a senior in high School I bought a 69 Judge for $300.00 (1978) from a guy who wrecked it and then put the drivetrain and all the bolt on body parts on a green body and primered it black and wrecked it again. I actually saw him running from the cops with the lights out one night before it was wrecked the first time. he was desperate to sell it as it got him in lots of trouble. I street raced it every weekend, probably burned rubber every time I drove it. never took it to the track but beat my buddy's 1970 Z/28 pretty good who ran 13.99 at Fremont. 15 X 8 and 15 X 10 slotted mags. probably a mid 13 second car. sold it in 1981 for $900.00 ... it was pretty tired by then. saw it at a swap meet not running for $12,000 around 1995. definitely the most fun car I have ever had. those 400's had a lot of torque.

  • @shan89904
    @shan89904 Год назад +2

    The 1969 Pontiac GTO Judge is an iconic muscle car that epitomizes the golden era of American muscle.

  • @oceancon
    @oceancon Год назад +9

    Forgot to mention the tach on the hood which was a defining characteristic of the GTO.

  • @kennyrichard2971
    @kennyrichard2971 Год назад +5

    What a beautiful GTO JUDGE 69 is one of my favorite Years

    • @Mr.Death101
      @Mr.Death101 Год назад +2

      It is the hands down best

    • @BradiKal61
      @BradiKal61 4 месяца назад

      The 1969 was almost identical to the 1968, but every difference was an improvement. The front parking lamps for example- the 68 has no style, but in 69 they were dressed up.

  • @twwap294
    @twwap294 Год назад +5

    Beautiful restoration. Brings back a lot of memories.

  • @brandonnichols9091
    @brandonnichols9091 5 месяцев назад

    Steve is probably one of the coolest dudes around, I could listen to him talk cars for hours what a knowlagable guy!

  • @charlesdalton985
    @charlesdalton985 Год назад +2

    Man, another one that just checks all the boxes! The paint, and I mean this as the most sincere compliment I can give, looks factory not over restored. Thank you for sharing. ~ Chuck

  • @stoneylonesome4062
    @stoneylonesome4062 Год назад +12

    Jesus Christ, Steve is a walking encyclopedia. God Bless him.

    • @davidpistek6241
      @davidpistek6241 Год назад +1

      My favorite kind of nerd, knowledge is fascinating

    • @masstosmisery
      @masstosmisery Год назад

      😂

    • @joequillun7790
      @joequillun7790 Год назад

      Sorry to inform you, but his facts are 1/2 incorrect here. Sad to say , from a fellow New Englander.

    • @user-vn6vx6rf7d
      @user-vn6vx6rf7d 11 месяцев назад

      Keep it fair, half incorrect is extreme. He got most of it right, but a few things like when explaining the Ram Air flow under the hood, he was off getting it mixed up with the preheater holes. Hurst comments were fine, but this car has the wrong shift handle in it, at least. The M21 close ratio was reserved for higher gear ratios over 3:55-1. @@joequillun7790

  • @carl77242
    @carl77242 4 месяца назад

    I have a 1969 GTO Judge that I have restored and my son has a 1966 GTO convertible that he has been restored these are great cars back in my day i take it out to run it to the car show some time .

  • @fredcagle2005
    @fredcagle2005 Год назад +1

    Had the frist one From Blestra Pontiac Redwood City California. Also First 64 GOAT 66 Dad had 69 Trans AM. 67 BIRD. 400 Turbo. On the column. All were Bad to the Bone. Give God all the credit.😅

  • @walcoman
    @walcoman 9 месяцев назад +1

    Endura rubberized front end required a specific additive to the paint in order for the paint to retain its malliablility

  • @THROTTLEPOWER
    @THROTTLEPOWER Год назад +2

    😍Great looking GTO!👍

  • @Slimjim260
    @Slimjim260 4 месяца назад

    Love the Garage Door,Nice!

  • @BradiKal61
    @BradiKal61 4 месяца назад

    My first car (bought in 1979) was a 1969 GTO convertible, but not a Judge😢
    It took every dollar I made for YEARS for repairs as it had been abused be previous owners. Sold it when I went ro college and had to buy a 74 AMC Hornet for reliable transportation.
    A 69 Judge was my dream car ever since that first car.

  • @rogergoodman8665
    @rogergoodman8665 Год назад +2

    It's beautiful. The pwr. steering must have been added during the restoration since it's not listed on the build sheet. I had a mostly restored 1969 GTO Judge, same color in and out with a turbo 400 in the late 90s. When I bought it, it was freshly restored, but the Ram Air 3 was gone, but I got ahold of a rebuilt 1970 code YC 455 from a Trans Am from my local machine shop because the person who took it there refused to pay for some reason and they wanted it gone. I just went there looking for a good 400 so I could drive it. I couldn't believe my good fortune. All the machine work was done, I just assembled it with a radical Isky cam. Considering it was a somewhat heavy 3800 lb all steel car with me in it, I could almost pull the front tires on launch. A few years later, I was getting divorced, and I panicked and sold it so her lawyer couldn't try and give it to her. I never really never got over my forced decision to sell her.

    • @Disciple_of_God.
      @Disciple_of_God. Год назад +1

      That's sad man. Praying to God you get another 69 GTO someday.

  • @googleusergp
    @googleusergp Год назад +1

    Yup, with the VIN (from HOC's website) you win: 2 for Pontiac, 42 for GTO, 37 for two door hardtop, 9 for 1969 model year, A for Atlanta, GA assembly and the rest is the production sequence. The Atlanta, GA assembly plant (aka Lakewood Heights) closed in 1990 and the last car produced there was given away to an employee and that video can be found online.
    We got the tag, we can brag: ST69 for 1969 model year, 24237 for Pontiac (2) GTO (42) two door hardtop (37), ATL for Atlanta, GA assembly, 258 for Black interior trim, 72 72 for Carousel Red lower and upper exterior paint, and 03A for the first week of March 1969 production. This color is the same as the code 79 "Red Orange" or "Carousel Red" that my 1980 Trans Am is painted. That same color was also offered in 1976 on the Firebird line.

  • @memorylane7068
    @memorylane7068 Год назад +1

    First 2000 Judges were Carousel Red, which was equivalent to Hugger Orange for Chevrolet. Orbit Orange was a lighter and brighter shade of Orange found on the 1970 GTO's. The first few hundred Judges had no glove box Judge emblem.

    • @28johnpetrie
      @28johnpetrie Год назад

      Okay, interesting. I had one of these in 1980 and it was a Judge with a ram air hood but it didn't have the glove box emblem. I always wondered why. Now l know.

  • @SolamenteVees
    @SolamenteVees Год назад +2

    I’m a Mopar guy but that’s a fantastic looking car.

    • @Disciple_of_God.
      @Disciple_of_God. Год назад

      I am too but all old school muscle cars are bangers!

  • @MrRFAvery
    @MrRFAvery 5 месяцев назад

    I got a 1971 GTO when i got back from Vietnam in 1970.

  • @TonyandSusie-MillersontheMove
    @TonyandSusie-MillersontheMove 4 месяца назад

    Man I Dig the Pontiacs so Very Much!❤️🤘😳🙌

  • @TracyC-nj2tq
    @TracyC-nj2tq 4 месяца назад

    I ADORE your accent as much as this car! Folks see ya comin' down na road in a cah like that'n they'd say, "Now theah's a fella who's all set. He's nawt just fottin' around. He's probably headed down ta Bessy's t'pick up some lawbstahs." I'm a New Yorker, but my father's side of the family are from the outskirts of Boston. We pick on each other's accents all the time at family reunions. Everyone DIES laughing every time!

  • @M21L35
    @M21L35 Год назад +1

    Steve......you're off he mark here. Sammie Davis, Jr. portrayed 'Da Judge' on Rowan & Martin's "Laugh-In"....& Artie Shaw was a renowned jazz artist, totally irrespective of the weekly Laugh-In TV show......which, BTW, featured a comedian by the name of Artie Johnson. Starting as early as 1962, Pontiac began installing Hurst/Campbell shifters & linkage in their manual floor-shift cars. Carousel Red was a '69-only color, as Orbit Orange was a '70-only Pontiac color.

    • @joequillun7790
      @joequillun7790 Год назад

      I thought so too M2, but I think so did Flip Wilson. Definitely not Artie Shaw(?) LOL. Artie Johnson ?

    • @BradiKal61
      @BradiKal61 4 месяца назад

      I think several people said "Here comes the Judge" on the show. Yes, Aerie Johnson was on the show, not Artie Shaw.

  • @soulsofpresentgracethompso5990
    @soulsofpresentgracethompso5990 Год назад +3

    Steve went T O'Leary.

  • @dalebaker8266
    @dalebaker8266 Год назад +1

    Here comes the judge was also in the commercial!

  • @user-vn6vx6rf7d
    @user-vn6vx6rf7d 11 месяцев назад

    Nice car, I've owned two. This one needs the right HURST shifter bar in it, and I'd take it back to the body man and get that huge hood to endura nose gap corrected.

  • @MisterMikeTexas
    @MisterMikeTexas Год назад

    That is a beauty! After you park it for the night, you can turn on the lava lamp, and queue up the 20 minute album version of "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" by Iron Butterfly.

  • @garysarnowski3113
    @garysarnowski3113 6 месяцев назад

    The whitewalls kill me. Used to either blackwalls or rwl. Beautiful car.

  • @bigdaddy69Z28
    @bigdaddy69Z28 4 месяца назад +1

    not to correct you Steve but it's Chevy Hugger Orange not Orbit Orange the paint code is 72 Pontiac called it Caracal Red .In 1970 you could get Orbit Orange in was a Yellow color like Warren Oates 2 Lane Black Top GTO witch had Judge Strips but was not Judge [just a note}.my buddy has this same car but his has hide-a-way head lights and has the big dog Ram Air 4 engine .I my self own a 70 Pepper Green code 48, GTO Judge. By 70 they where painting them all the colors in the Pontiac line up. Love your videos hope your heath is better.

  • @thomasambrose8427
    @thomasambrose8427 11 месяцев назад

    Very nice 62 Chevy next to it!!

  • @terry-zi7eh
    @terry-zi7eh Год назад

    Those 14x7 Rally ll 8:55 8:55 wheels are incorrect. All 69 and 70 Judges came with 14x6 wheels. The deeper dish is a dead giveaway to 14x7 Firebird or GP wheels.

  • @familyacosta7650
    @familyacosta7650 10 месяцев назад

    This was one of my dad’s first cars, to this day he still remembers what color judge he had even though he is in his mid stages of alzheimer’s.

  • @joequillun7790
    @joequillun7790 Год назад

    Cool car. Not a bad presentation, altho a few bobbles here and there. And Steve, you mentioned the tranny, (or at least the shifter...trannys a Muncie). But you also didn't mention the rear gear. (Most sellers do). So if it's a close ratio Muncie, are we to assume the rear gear is a 3.90? Can't find it in the listing. Guess the car is gone.

  • @JasonKent-n3j
    @JasonKent-n3j 2 месяца назад

    Carousel red up till February they had a blue stripe. Then it was switched to black. Orbit orange was a 1970 color

  • @Mr.Death101
    @Mr.Death101 Год назад +1

    I learned so much from Steve I can't even believe his wealth of knowledge and he's funny. I would vote Steve for president honestly. This is one of my favorite cars of all time and it is beautiful❤

  • @kevinm4022
    @kevinm4022 10 месяцев назад

    I have a diecast model of the judge and it is prominent in my collection. It is my dream car which i will never own

  • @markhellman-pn3hn
    @markhellman-pn3hn Год назад +1

    while "The Judge" may have been the answer to "The Roadrunner" ... the NAME actually came from a T.V. show "Rowin & Martin laugh-in" .... during one of the skits - a famous line was "HERE COMES THE JUDGE" .... (that's a fact jack)

    • @gteefxr3094
      @gteefxr3094 Год назад +1

      Ahh.. I kinda' think we knew that already.

    • @steveferguson6809
      @steveferguson6809 Год назад +1

      It's Rowan not Rowin

    • @garyhull5617
      @garyhull5617 Год назад

      Flip Wilson figures in somewhere, doesn't he?

    • @joequillun7790
      @joequillun7790 Год назад

      @@garyhull5617 you are correct Gary. It was Fip who said, "here come the Judge, not Artie Shaw, (?) like Steve incorrectly stated. I thought Sammy Davis did it too. (Maybe once (?)

  • @anibalbabilonia1867
    @anibalbabilonia1867 Год назад

    Aahh the goat! 🐐 👌🥰👍👉♥️beautiful!

  • @joellovejoy8876
    @joellovejoy8876 Год назад

    They came with red line G 70S's ,Wide Ovals and white walls. I have a judge that originaly came with white walls .

  • @ronaldmoravec2692
    @ronaldmoravec2692 9 месяцев назад

    sad story. Driving down US83 near Palos, Il, I saw a similar body and color Judge pass me going opposite direction. Looked showroom clean and new. Going home we met again with Judge going in opposite direction. Let me just say it needs some extensive body work, like a new front end. Told you it was sad.

  • @oogboog7049
    @oogboog7049 Год назад

    3300 WOW my 4 door skylark was almost 4K in 69 and it only has a few options

  • @marcelogoulart4061
    @marcelogoulart4061 4 месяца назад

    Lindo!❤

  • @gerry-p9x
    @gerry-p9x 8 месяцев назад

    Here comes da JUDGE

  • @bobrollans8460
    @bobrollans8460 Год назад +1

    Strange the car came with white wall tires but no rally 2 wheels.Rally wheels were code 454 84.26 dollar's

    • @joequillun7790
      @joequillun7790 Год назад

      They didn't come with whitewalls. Good Year raised white letter Polyglass was the tire of choice.

  • @frankmoore159
    @frankmoore159 Год назад

    nice

  • @timstein3302
    @timstein3302 Год назад +2

    Nice to see one that survived ,and didn't end up in Bernardston auto wrecking. I would have to do a smoke show with those whitewalls though.

  • @josephgeorgeejr7039
    @josephgeorgeejr7039 Год назад +2

    White walls gotta go!! Put on some year one retro rallys with some coopers or goodyears

  • @brentnearhood8874
    @brentnearhood8874 Год назад

    My friend had one!

  • @AwkwardHypernerd413
    @AwkwardHypernerd413 4 месяца назад

    Saw this thing in the movie “sex drive”
    And then recently saw a REAL ONE at a car show. Exact same model as the one in the movie, even with the tachometer

  • @jeffreycarleton1535
    @jeffreycarleton1535 Год назад

    Here come the judge
    Here come the judge
    Wink Wink LMAO!

  • @haroldbirge6881
    @haroldbirge6881 Год назад

    🏆Steve 🏆hit a home run 🐶 that car so trick 🍀got R done😎✌️

  • @fas9667
    @fas9667 4 месяца назад

    please get rid of the white lined tires and replace them with raised white lettered tires. Steve your looking stronger and better everyday !

  • @bobsilver3983
    @bobsilver3983 Год назад

    The tires should be blackwall

  • @hornetbrown
    @hornetbrown Год назад +1

    Love this car! But those whitewalls gotta go. Wide Ovals? Cooper Cobras? Some kinda white letter tire with a real speed rating.

  • @The_R-n-I_Guy
    @The_R-n-I_Guy Год назад +2

    I'd be happy with a beat up LeMans

    • @bobsilver3983
      @bobsilver3983 Год назад

      I may be buying a 69 Lemans for $2500. No seats, engine or trans. Trunk and floors are very solid, quarters have bondo and would need replacing.

  • @davidronan1677
    @davidronan1677 Год назад

    I haven't heard anything about Steve's illness which is worrying

  • @babaoreally8220
    @babaoreally8220 3 месяца назад

    Not a street fighter without the optional RA/IV engine.Too heavy.Those were the best looking cars of that time,however.RA/IV was actually well over 400hp.

  • @ScarlettFire341
    @ScarlettFire341 Год назад

    In high school 1972 I bought a 69 Carousel Red Judge RA lll 4 speed with 49,000 miles for $1250 which was a lot of money back then. The car condition was like new and ran perfect. The only thing not original were the F-70 / 14" tires which would go up in smoke with little effort. I would drop the clutch in 2nd at 3500 rpms and leave posi rubber for as long as I would like +- (I replaced the clutch twice) - The car always ran good but at 90,000 miles it was using a quart of oil in maybe 100 miles and one night I took the car up to near red line over 130 mph and spun a bearing. The car still ran good knocking but I just replaced the motor with a 69 Bonneville 400 and threw the original RA lll away, back then cars were disposal-able lol a year later the car was beat and nearly a total from too many accidents and abuse and was sold for a few $ hundred bucks. Mine had the Judge sticker on the glove box, and my Hurst Shifter T Handle originally did not have the 4 speed pattern stamped in the Handle Top like the one shown that is a newer replacement. I added rear deep dish Cragers with G-60's on the rear and air shocks for just a bit more height. Still today my friends constantly remind me of my Judge !
    THIS is JUST Crazy for this original kinda shitty Judge today-- $60,500
    bringatrailer.com/listing/1969-pontiac-gto-77/
    GM mis-represented the HP on ALL A Body Cars except the 1070 Chevelle LS-6. They just took the weigh of the car and rated the GM A Bodies as 10 HP for every 100 pounds of weight +-
    HERE IS some numbers about True HP: Gross HP at the CRANK - Roger Huntington wrote an article about what these engines actually put out; here is the list: (All are gross hp & torque figures.)
    www.motortrend.com/features/horsepower-hijinks-story-behind-factory-underrating-muscle-car-power-1960s-1970s/
    Engine----------Advertised--Rated HP & Torque---------True HP (?)
    Buick 455 Stage 1-------360@5000----510@2800------420@5400
    Camaro Z/28 302--------290@5800----290@4200------310@6200
    Chevelle 396 L-78-------375@5600----415@3600------400@5600
    Corvette 427 L-88-------430@5200----450@4400------480@6400
    Mopar 340-4 bbl---------275@5000----340@3200------320@5600
    Mopar 440-Magnum------375@4600----480@3200------410@5400
    Mopar 440 Six-Pack------390@4700----490@3200------430@5600
    Mopar 426 Street Hemi---425@5000----490@4000------470@6000
    Mustang Boss 302--------290@5800----290@4300------310@6200
    Ford 351-4 bbl Cleveland--300@5400----380@3400------340@5600
    Mustang Boss 351--------330@5400----370@4000------360@6000
    Mustang 428 Cobra-Jet---335@5200----440@3400------410@5600
    Mustang Boss 429--------375@5200----450@3400------420@5600
    Oldsmobile 455 W-30-----370@5300----500@3600------440@5600
    Oldsmobile 350 W-31-----325@5400----360@3600------350@5800
    Pontiac Ram Air lll 400------366@5100----445@3600------410@560

    • @jasonmacneil2256
      @jasonmacneil2256 Год назад

      Too bad you were/are such a knob and didnt know to respect a nice car and enjoy it, but make it last. People like you didn't deserve to own one of those great cars.

  • @thomasthurston6656
    @thomasthurston6656 23 дня назад

    The white walls do nothing for that car. Redlines would add to it.

  • @walcoman
    @walcoman 9 месяцев назад

    Cmon now, gotta lose those ugly tires with the white sidewall band.

  • @backroom12
    @backroom12 Год назад

    Gtos look better without the Hide away lights .

  • @Slimjim260
    @Slimjim260 4 месяца назад

    The white walls are ugly

  • @walzingdewormed3425
    @walzingdewormed3425 3 месяца назад

    Beautiful specimen! Some driving would have been nice.

  • @porkchop50078
    @porkchop50078 3 месяца назад

    Arnie " the farmer" beswick Morrison illinois made the " judge" famous along with the tameless tiger!!