1971 JUDGE CONVERTIBLE,1 OF 17

mr396 · #1 08-12-2006, 09:29 AM

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/GTO-JUDGE...1QQcmdZViewItem

**njsteve** · #2 08-12-2006, 04:17 PM

I love when people threaten to take it to "Scottsdale in January" if no one meets his reserve here. I guess he doesn't know Barrett Jackson too well if he thinks "the reserve will be higher there to cover the 8%". Barrett Jackson is No Reserve on everything.

Nice car either way, but it shouldn't have trim rings on the honeycomb wheels in 71.

Les Quam · #3 08-12-2006, 10:45 PM

If he doesn't consign it at no reserve to BJ relatively soon there will be few if any slots left for the car unless he knows one of the insiders there. IMHO it's a crapshoot whether it brings 300K at BJ even if is a Teimann restored car.

Johnny Horsepower · #4 08-15-2006, 08:00 AM

Love the car, but would like him to state "original matching #s drivetrain" and sign a document to that effect.

**csx289** · #5 08-15-2006, 05:33 PM

Does anybody else have any objections to the trim tag?

resto4u · #6 08-16-2006, 08:09 AM

Yeah colin, maybe fishy ?????????

**Rick H** · #7 09-22-2006, 11:52 PM

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Nice car either way, but it shouldn't have trim rings on the honeycomb wheels in 71.

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I looked at a black 1971 Judge last week and it had the same honeycomb wheels with the small trim rings just like the one on ebay. I can't believe that both these cars would be wrong.

Legendary Motor Cars has a 1971 Judge Convertible on their website with the same wheels with trim rings.

Rick H.

rusted goat · #8 09-23-2006, 12:05 AM

I know on The Judge with ralley II's weren't suppose to have the trim rings on. But the honeycombs I don't recall seeing one without a trim ring. At least in photos of restored Judges. What does that area of the rim look like without them

**njsteve** · #9 09-23-2006, 01:07 AM

Can't really tell if the wheels you're talking about are 14"s or not but the 15"s didn't come with a trim ring until 1973 because Pontiac didnt make a trim ring for it til then. I have heard that 14" honeycombs did come with the trim rings, though, in the earlier years. Maybe it was a manufacturing problem, who knows? In 1973 you could get the 15" trim rings at the parts counter, which everybody did, and then installed them on all the pre-73 15" wheels just because they looked nice with them. This is what the 15" wheels look like without rings.

**njsteve** · #10 09-23-2006, 01:09 AM

I just enlarged the auction photo and those are 14" honeycombs, so the trim ring is most likely correct for that year and size.

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