There’s no hiding the Fiero but it’s about as different as it could be, I’ll grant Zimmer that the styling does everything possible to pull the eye away from the center Fiero section. Most sources seem to find the exterior good looking, I don’t concur but freely admit that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. By mid-80’s standards it (the interior) looked pretty good. Available between 19, you could basically get whatever Fiero options were available.Īll were 3-speed automatics and the interior was retrimmed in leather and wood along with the exterior modifications. Numbers are difficult to come by but the general consensus is that somewhere between 150 and 300 were produced in total, and retailed for around $50,000 in mid ’80’s dollars, so almost four times the price of the V6 Fiero donor. The engine is the 2.8liter V-6 that powered non-base Fieros and was good for 140hp.
The front end has been lengthened some 28 inches and the back is larger as well but a lot of that is due to the absolutely massive chrome protuberance that serves as a bumper. Obviously (it is obvious, right?) it is based on the Pontiac Fiero which really is a good donor car in that the body panels just bolt onto a skeleton that actually provides the structure. Later I came to realize that we’ve featured a couple of these before, one from the Cohort and there was an internet find as well, but I believe this is the first actual Curbside find that one of us contributors has documented in the flesh. This one in its somewhat neglected state is pretty much the fate that befalls many of them once a new shiny thing comes along. SoCal has always teemed (relatively speaking) with kit cars and “adaptations” of various donor cars. In the back of my mind I remembered it from an old issue of Car&Driver (April 1987 to be exact), and I’m sure I’ve also seen it at the LA Auto Show back in the day, but now as then, found it to be quite ugly. So I was surprised and bemused, but not amazed, when I decided to go for a walk after having dinner at my sister-in-law’s house last month a couple of miles from UCLA and came across this rare bird just around the corner. Southern California has long been a mecca for the automotive being, and people there own everything imaginable, never mind that it’s one of the most inhospitable environments in the world from a vehicle regulatory standpoint. I once heard someone say “If you wait long enough, eventually you will see every car ever made in the world somewhere in Southern California.” At the time, I sagely nodded my head, but I believe it to be true.
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