Banana Yellow: 1988 Pontiac Fiero GT
How many sub 100k mile revised suspension (no, it wasn’t Lotus, but in the final year of Fiero production the Pontiac engineers put a considerable amount of effort into making it handle better) Fiero GT’s with V6 and manual exist on the planet? Probably only a handful…and the seller of this next one is asking a very reasonable amount of money. I’d give this a two yellow thumbs up! Find this 1988 Pontiac Fiero GT offered for $6,500 in Baldwin, NY via craigslist. Tip from ME.
From the seller:
1988 pontiac fiero gt
condition: good
cylinders: 6 cylinders
fuel: gas
odometer: 59800
paint color: yellow
title status: clean
transmission: manual
For sale is our low-mileage 1998 yellow Fiero GT in good condition. 2.8L V6, 5-speed manual transmission, sun roof, aerodynamic package. Clutch and A/C compressor are new. Includes cover.
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I don’t think I would drive a bright yellow Fiero around even if the money went in the other direction. I think it would be in the neighborhood of $15,000 to me, rather than from me, to drive it for a year. Just saying.
Cabbies make a more than 15k most places.
This color on a Porsche or a Lotus or a maybe even a Mercedes, certainly a Unimog, would be fine. What is it about the Fiero that makes this mustard pass gas?
I’ve never had the pleasure of driving an ’88 but all the journalists state that its suspension redesign makes it a sublime handler. I drove an ’87 with a 3800 Series II supercharged engine transplant and it was certainly fast … and rather vague in the handling department.
Yellow is a perfect color for a Fiero, no apologies necessary. In college I pined for a yellow CRX but alas I had no silver spoon, only Pell grants, student loans and a part time job in a liquor store with a gun under the counter in the bad part of town. But I digress: yellow is rad.
My mental block on this is my utter contempt for cars from New York or New Jersey. My two experiences so far have either been cancer from salted roads or pushy sellers with a strong Jersey Shore karma.
There was a taxi yellow 740 wagon parked in front of harbor fright this afternoon that was awesome. Fly yellow Ferraris are awesome. There is something about the shape of this that looks less awesome in yellow. Too much small detail perhaps?
If you like the way this one looks, the engine compartment has that “tidy enough but not suspiciously detailed†look that inspires some confidence. The purple seat covers however inspire scenarios involving raccoons (Long Island ) or commuting to a job mud wrestling (also Long Island). What lurks under that improvised upholstery one wonders?
The purple interior on yellow made me think more New Orleans, except there’s no green. Worst case, well, you can probably find some better buckets than the stock bits in the Summit catalog. I stuffed a race seat into a ’98 Buick Regal once because my effort at fixing the stock upholstery with a thrift store leather jacket only held up for a year.
The 88’s are significantly more nimble than earlier years, but are still lumbering beasts when compared to cars of today (or even older Miatas and Boxsters…)
I still own an ’88, thanks to Daily Turismo.
I don’t know how to post a pic of mine… but it looks exactly like this (100% stock). Only 247 were ever built:
http://davidsclassiccars.com/pontiac/45423-1988-pontiac-fiero-mera-the-original-corporate-concepts-ferrari-308-replica.html
-Stan (…yeah…*that* Stan…)
Wow. I’d probably bump an old lady off a train platform if I got a Mera that nice in the deal.
wondering about the deal with front air dam. In some pics not there, others with a lower black band, possibly propped on a brick or 2. Yeah, it is in NY. “Da Island” Nassau County. Less salt than Upstate or North Country, perhaps made up for by more owner attitude endemic to the area.