The "first" Judge prototype was the one with the cornering lights in the above photos. And if you look carefully it is actually a two door post Tempest, it was originally decked out the "ET" and had a 350 HO, A LeMans flat hood but with a hood tach and the hood tach pod based Ram Air set up as seen in the 69 High Performance Brochure. It looks like they added bucket seats, A GTO endura and hood to the ET for this stage of the project. If you look carefully at the pictures you can see the air brushing of the 68 Tempest tail lights and side marker lights. Also the power antenna from the ET Tempest wass also still there.
The photos on the left above are the second prototype Judge. Apparently, it started life as the limelight green RA IV Hardtop with the parchment interior seen in the 69 High Performance Brochure and many other promo stuff like posters and post cards. That Limelight green car was built as a base engine preproduction car and it had a RA IV put in along with the preproduction four scoop ram air setup. Apparently, when it was converted to a Judge it had the RA IV replaced with a stock 69 RA III engine and stock style RA set up.
Interestingly both these prototypes had factory power antennas, something that wasn't ever offered on production Judges.
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My Break Away Squad
1969 Fbird (base OHC, 350, 400HO & Sprint Cvt’s - 400HO & TA ht’s)
1969 Custom S 2dr ht
1969 LeMans (2dr & 4dr ht & Cvt)
1969 LeMans Safari wagon
1969 GTO (2 Cvt, 2 ht & Judge ht)
1969 Cat (3 Cvt’s & a 2dr ht)
1969 Ventura wagon 2 seat
1969 Exec 4dr post
1969 2 Bonnie Cvt's & 2 wagons
1969 Bonnie Brougham (4dr ht & Cvt)
1969 Grand Prix 2 SJ’s
1969 2+2 2dr ht (Canadian)
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