The 2016 Mecum Auctions in Kissimmee, Florida kicked off last Friday, and in that week since then we’ve seen some seriously slick muscle cars set to cross the auction block. If you’ve been following our Mecum Mopar Madness updates, you’ve seen the ’69 Hemi Daytona expected to bring upwards of $700,000, or the multi-million dollar ’71 ‘Cuda Convertible.
While these are truly jaw-dropping automotive relics, let’s assume that you don’t have $700,000 to $2.5 million just laying around. Suppose you have a more modest price range, like say, $105,000. Well with that kind of dough, you could have (or at least, could’ve had) yourself one of the rare Starlight Black, four-speed-shifted ’69 Judge GTOs.
Just yesterday, one such Judge sold for that exact price – $105,000 – making it that day’s top sale. It out-priced the next highest sale, a ’69 Mustang Fastback, by $25,000. The car rightfully earned it’s hammer price, too, being one of the few Starlight Black Judges in existence.
The car has a received a full concours restoration (one of the highest quality-levels in the realm of restoring), and was a Concours Gold winner at the 2013 Pontiac Nationals event. It also boasts its original upholstery, sheet metal and bumpers. The car has just over 68,000 original miles, but an impressive zero-accrued miles since its restoration. And with it’s numbers-matching, 400-cube mill, it’s as much of a powerhouse as it was in ’69.
While this Judge is now in the hands of some happy new owner, it serves as an indication that you can have a car with the history and sentiment of the aforementioned ’69 Daytona or ’71 ‘Cuda, but at a fraction of the price, albeit a bit out of our own reach.