Congrats on your new Judge.
That is a very righteous car.
The previous owner's son is a member of this Forum.
The owner may have been also.
They owned it for quite a while.
I researched the paper trails for them about 1 year ago on this car.
They basically had the same questions as you :
WT-7 ?
PMD or Zone Use ?
Under box 67 - where it says PNT STR - "E'' is the code for Blue Stripes.
As HFR pointed to.
Eliminates WT-7 , although that would have been the best overall look with the Brown interior, in my opinion.
And also as HFR pointed to -
PHS jumped the gun calling it a Zone Use / Company Use car.
Paper trail doesn't support it --- especially without Invoice #3
It would have been reverse procedure from norm ... but still an outside possibility - in all fairness.
A possibility doesn't make it a fact though.
So we can only speculate what happened with car after PMD got it back.
Invoice #2 language and codes show it as only going into Zone Inventory, as Inventory.
From that point a 3rd Invoice would come next.
Either charged to a PMD Department or Zone for Company Use,
Or to another Dealer.
IF it were selected/pulled from Inventory as a Company/Zone Use vehicle - then an eventual 4th Invoice would get generated when it eventually sold to a Dealer at discount.
Its an odd trail no matter what.
Larger gap than normal between proposed production date on Buildsheet and Invoice #1 date.
Along with storage insert notation on Bsheet.
Have a few other various Bsheets with the same notation -- there can be multiple definitions and circumstances for that term.
So that is basically something that has to be pieced into the puzzle and try to find a best fit.
AKA involves more speculation
This was a very pricey performance specialty car with unique option content and color combination.
Not something a dealer would casually order for inventory.
Definitely a special order, that would have required a buyers deposit.
But i think something definitely went wrong with the original buyer.
Maybe he was drafted to Vietnam or fell upon some type of immense hardship.
Two things we can say for sure :
1. The original buyer/purchaser didn't follow through.
2. PMD got the car back from Hayes within 60 days , still as a new car.
Thats It
The hand written notation on Invoice #1 , along with the other notations and date factors - i formed an opinion on the puzzle, at least up to the point of Invoice #2.
But its only more speculation, one of several possibilities.
Probably not worth cluttering up web space with it - or the potential conjectures.
Its really a deal where everyone can form their own hypothesis.
None can be proven.
so ..... another dead end road
Brown is a seldom seen interior color on any 70 GTO, particularly seldom on a Judge.
#'s matching drivetrain RamIV 4spd Judge is a very high attribute.
It looked like perhaps still factory paint and decals in 1999'ish when Don owned it.
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