I am in the market to aquire a 69 Judge or possibly a 70 depending on colors.
I think the best buy of the auction for Judges was the 70 White RAIV 4 speed in Como collection. It sold for $137,500 which was a very good buy for a RAIV 4 speed Judge. The restoration was nicely done. Some items were added to the options but done in a correct manner. Those items would make the car more enjoyable to drive ... PS/PB/AM-FM etc. I think that car was overlooked among the other cars in more "eye popping" colors.
I was very interested to see what the 68 RA II car would bring. I own one and have done research on these cars. Prior to the auction I had concerns that the "auction crowd" would not appreciate the RA II for what it was. I thought it would "get lost" among all the Judges and RAIV cars and the condition of the presentation was not the best. I was very surprised as it was the first of the round port GTOs to cross the stage and brought very good money. These cars are rarely at auctions and there are so few left it is hard to determine value. Most of them trade hands in private sales. I am still not sure the $253k reflects a number that can be backed up at least 75%. I think the fact that Jim Mattison once owned this car helped.
The same goes for the OO Judge RAIV convertible car. Was this an anomaly? We did have a second one cross the block at $572 which was about half of the OO car. My feeling is unless another car can come within 75% of the OO car the $1.1 million is not going to hold. Haggerty has a very interesting tool that is a scatter plot of sales prices across several years on a specific models. This $1.1 million is probably an outlier on the scatter plot.
Someone had mentioned a couple of cars had changed hands that are on the RAII list. I would be interested to know which ones, condition/correctness, and value, if the person can share that information.
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