Pontiac named the GTO Judge package after a punchline from Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, and by 1970 that joke had turned into one of the most feared options on any drag strip in the country. Just 3,797 Judges were built that year out of over 40,000 total GTOs, and only 168 of those were convertibles. Here’s what made the real thing so rare, and how quick it actually was in a straight line.
