Wednesday, May 14, 2008

The GTO Judge

So you think it's a Pontiac muscle car that you want, how about a true American super car, I'm talking about the 1970 GTO judge, with 455 cubic inches of fire breathing Pontiac big block, the GTO judge is however extremely rare and hard to find, but in my opinion it's Pontiac's cream of the crop in muscle cars, yeah sure they built the trans-am, and it's an awesome car also, but it's no GTO judge, the 455 cubic inch V8 boasted a lowly factory rating 355 BHP, but we all know about the factory hp ratings, don't we.

Delivering 421 pavement trashing pound feet of torque, it was a force to be reckoned with, and a challenge that most normal muscle cars could not deal with, as it was no normal car, the car came with servo front disc brakes, a turbohydromatic 400 automatic transmission, a hood mounted tach, a ram-air V package to ram fresh air straight down the throat of this beast, a positraction rear end boasting 4.33:1 rear gears, and an option for a M-22 rock-crusher 4 speed transmission.

Put all this together, and it spells wicked, this car could a aneurysm straight to your heart, over the years this car has made a lot of grown men cry after they under estimated the raw power of this car, and lost the race, I don't know if you've ever got in to a muscle car, and stepped in to the pedal, when you leave the line, the car literally shoves you back in the seat and pins you there, for a split instant the car is in control of you, the torque of this car was very capable of such things, and it surprised a lot of people.

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