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Originally Posted by green70judge
I can't keep quiet anymore... I hate the fact that people are cloning Judges. Simply put if you don't have one...then accept it. If you drive a lemans...then don't make it a GTO... it is what it is!!! I copied this from classicalpontiac...
in reference to a 70 lemans for sale...
I got this car in the summer with the intensions of turning it into a Judge and then got a Real Judge. It's a 2 door hardtop with a 350 motor and 350 trans. Car has ps, pb, ac, ralley wheels, dual exhaust, paint appears to be original. Car is orig. from Tennessee. I also have GTO fenders and wheel houses that go with the car. Drive it as is or make it a Judge.
I can't take this.....
Am I wrong to feel this way...
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I like these guys. They put together a bunch of parts then don't use them. You can buy stuff already collected together. I'm a convertible guy. You almost never see a convertible clone.
I hate the ebayers that list a Judge that I waste my time clicking on to find it's a clone. I was looking because it was listed as a Judge--now I'm just angry. Say it's a clone.
One reason people clone is because of snobbery. I almost did. I'm not saying it's the only reason people do. I started with a conv LeMans because I liked the chrome bumper look and didn't care about the GTO. I'd wanted one for 10 yrs. Personally, I heard some snobbishness because I didn't have a GTO. I didn't want a GTO back then. I heard it from non-GTO owners too. I ended up buying a GTO hideaway nose because of some of this--which I never put on, thankfully. I even picked out a license plate to use with the car--IMNOGTO. Now that I've had many GTOs, I'm a little jaded to the plain hardtop GTO myself. I'm sure you've heard it before, but I'm not really partial to Judges. I'm more partial to convertibles. The Judge is rarer, but it's a hardtop. If I had a convertible Judge, I think I would feel the way some of you feel about just owning a hardtop Judge. Excited, but more because it's a rare convertible instead it being a Judge. It's a rare convertible first, to me. I appreciate the Judges.
I'm gonna color change a green '68 convert GTO automatic into a Turquoise 4 spd.