Not Judge specific but I stumbled onto this in the process of entering the DON's. I always wondered what the significance of the actual sequential VIN was. I always assumed they represented the total number of Pontiacs built in a given plant at the time of production.
It seems that that is about right. There were 12 different assembly plants that built 69 Pontiacs. I figured what the last sequential VIN number was in each plant (easy with the 9 A and F body plants that I have tons of data on, I guesstimated the other 3 (B body only plants) based on a few sample PHS's and compared the VIN sequence to the build date and extrapolated run rates to arrive at total production for the year, here,s what it came out like...:
A Atlanta: 34,000 (only A body produced here)
B Baltimore: 79,000 (only A body produced here)
C Southgate: 30,000 (only B body produced here)
E Linden: 92,000 (only B body produced here)
G Framingham 49,000 (only A body produced here)
L Van Nuys 20,000 (only F body produced here)
N Norwood 20,000 (only F body produced here)
P Pontiac 268,000 (A, B & G body produced here)
R Arlington 91,000 (A & B body produced here)
U Lordstown 39,000 (only F body produced here)
X Kansas City 62,000 (only B body produced here)
Z Fremont 31,000 (only A body produced here)
Total is 815,000 cars, if you add the 47,000 six cylinder cars (they had their own VIN sequence that started with a 6 instead of 1, 2 or 3) you get 872,000. This is almost exactly the same as the actual 69 run of 871,000. For what it's worth I didn't work the numbers back to the actual production total so this probably is what the sequential VIN's represented. All major plants back then produced a few hundred thousand cars a year. The plants apart from the home plant have low production because they produced for the other GM divisions.
A few GTO specific bits most of you may already now...
Atlanta, Framingham and Pontiac only produced hardtop GTO's
Baltimore, Arlington and Fremont produced hardtops and convertibles.
Pontiac plant only starting building A bodies in mid April 69, and when this happened Baltimore stopped producing hardtop A bodies, producing only convertibles till the end of the run.
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My Break Away Squad
1969 Fbird (Base, 350 & Sprint Cvt’s - 400HO & TA Hardtops)
1969 LeMans (2dr & 4dr Hardtop and a Cvt)
1969 LeMans Safari 2 seat Wagon
1969 GTO (2 Cvt, 2 Hardtops & Judge Hardtop)
1969 Catalina (3 Cvt’s & a 2dr hardtop)
1969 Ventura 2 Seat Wagon
1969 Executive 4dr Sedan
1969 Bonnie Cvt
1969 Bonnie 3 Seat Wagon (2 of them)
1969 Bonnie Brougham (4dr Hardtop & Cvt)
1969 Grand Prix SJ (2 of them)
1969 2+2 2dr Hardtop (Canadian model)
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