Pontiac GTO Judge in rare Matador Red offered in Dream Giveaway, benefiting veterans and children’s charities.

And yet, it's a 56-year-young American muscle icon that makes him go out of his way for a driving review. A 1969 GTO Judge, as you might have guessed by the lengthy introduction.

Only 6,725 Judge-optioned hardtops and 108 convertibles were built for 1969, and 4,894 of them came with a four-speed manual transmission attached to the Ram Air (III) 6.6-liter motor.

The 1970 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am and the 1970 Pontiac GTO were the last cars powered by the Ram Air IV V8 engine. The Ram Air IV was an all-new engine for 1969, which was carried over unchanged ...

A round-port Ram Air IV engine with 370 hp on tap was specified, along with the mandatory M21 close-ratio four-speed (with a R/A-IV, a Turbo-hydromatic was also available but not a three-speed ...