Master cylinder was leaking so I replaced it. This car is completely original and the miles are the real deal, not spun over. I've known the car for 35 years and it has been driven very little, almost not at all during that time . It still has the original paint, tires, plugs, wires, cap, rotor, hoses, belts, top, etc. but I replace the exhaust system a few years back. Spare never on the ground and the top has only been down twice in it's lifetime. Pretty cool piece of history.
Less than 9,000 miles on a GTO convertible!!! That thing ain't never been appreciated for what it is. I've probably TOWED cars more miles than that. Yes it certainly IS beautiful. But not for me. DRIVE IT!!!
I’ll add another none driven Pontiac, this car sits in a garage in Odessa Tx on a busy main road, we use to live around the corner from it, only saw it driven once. I was at the gas station in my 70 AMX filling up and it pulled up on the other side. My son got to work on it about two weeks ago and took the pictures.
Has this car gone through the Vintage Certification yet at the MCACN show? If not please encourage the owner to consider it for 2021. This car should do very well and would be a real treat to see in person. And if it’s also located in IL it won’t be too long of a haul. Thanks for sharing.
Well, I think I can say this with 99.99% confidence that that's never going to happen. He has a large collection of GTOs and Judges and has shown them at GTOAA and POCI meets as well as many Concours D'Elegance shows and has a room full of awards we've won with the cars I've restored through the years but he's 79 years old now and has no more interest in hauling any of his cars to shows anymore. He does, however, still enjoy people visiting and showing them his collection. He has a few that he does drive in the summer including a black `68 GTO hardtop, 4 speed car that he bought new. I'm going to add a couple shots of the Orbit Orange`70 RAIV automatic Judge convertible that I restored for him 23 years ago (1 of 6) sitting next to another `70 RAIV Judge convertible that I restored for a guy in southern Indiana 3 years ago, the Pepper Green car (1 of 11), which has also won Gold awards at the GTOAA and MCACN shows. Remarkably, both of these cars were built in Baltimore on the same day and were the only two RAIV Judge convertibles built at that plant. What are the odds of that?
I tend to agree, Steve. And we talked about that. The original tires have good tread yet but have some cracking. My suggestion was to have me paint another set of Rally II wheels and add some new redline radials, then pull the originals off, trim rings and center caps included and put them away. I asked him if he thinks if he put 500 miles on the car in the next five years if he thought it would hurt the value of it one single bit. I doubt it but I could never get him to pull that trigger. I love that `68 convertible though, and if it was mine I'd be doing more than just looking at it.
1 of 6 or 11 you say, well there's an orange/red one up here that was for sale on kijiji not long ago on.
This ^^ is sooo true! Not driving your classic car is like not f***ing your girlfriend and keeping the p***y tight for the next guy
I can understand why he will not be taking the '68 to MCACN. What a great pair of '70 GTOs. They are not just GTOs, not just Judges, but Ram Air IV convertibles. Wow! That is quite remarkable that they were both built on the same day and it is also remarkable that they were both restored by the same person and nearly 50 years later they were parked together again. Thanks for posting this.
I've been working on a '69 RAM111 convertible for years. Auto, console, his/her shifhter, am/fm/reverb, electric antenna, 3.73 posi, A/C, disc brakes, etc, etc, etc, BUT this one is/has been driven. Has about 70K original. Getting long in the tooth, BUT not bad. A good canidate for a restoration when/IF he decides to sell.
