Pontiac named its most aggressive GTO package after a television punchline, and within two years the joke had become one of the most feared badges on any drag strip in America. Only 3,797 Judges were built for 1970 out of more than 40,000 GTOs, and just 168 of those were convertibles. Ram Air IV cars ran the quarter mile in the mid-13s. Read on for how a marketing gag became one of the definitive muscle cars.
