Best of the Breed: 1988 Pontiac Fiero GT
The Fiero hit the streets for the 1984 model year as the American answer to cheap mid-engine sports cars from Japan and Europe. The Fiero started with some cheap parts bin suspension (and the iron duke 4-cylinder engine) but GM finally fitted the mid engine Fiero with a proper suspension for the 1988 model year and then promptly discontinued the car. Find this 1988 Pontiac Fiero GT offered for $13,000 in Temecula, CA via craigslist. Tip from Rock On!
From the seller:
1988 pontiac fiero gt
VIN: 1G2PG1193JP215348
condition: excellent
cylinders: 6 cylinders
drive: rwd
fuel: gas
odometer: 27950
paint color: red
title status: clean
transmission: automatic
type: other
1988 Pontiac Fiero GT in Immaculate Mint Condition. Original Owner with only 27,950 miles. You will never find a Cleaner, more Lovingly Cared For Fiero GT than this one. Be sure to look at all of the detailed pictures of this “One of a Kind” Fiero GT. The name on the custom chrome “name plate” on both doors can be easily removed from the chrome name plate with regular paint remover that will NOT damage the chrome & just wipes the paint off the chrome, to personalize it for the lucky person who buys this Flawless impeccable Fiero GT. It has Never been driven in the rain, gravel, dirt road or otherwise! Custom right and left wheels are on it and the Original wheels were packed in boxes within being driven 100 miles and are like new. The Only time it is not covered is when it is being driven, or hand washed and detailed. It has always been carefully covered when not in use with it’s car cover and in the garage with the door closed. It is in Better than new condition. Have all the service records for it. If you have ever wanted a Fiero GT, this is the one!
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Nice looking ride.
As the owner of an ’88 Fiero (thanks in part to you lunatics 😉 ), I can attest that low miles often means electrical gremlins that keep the car parked and lookin’ purty (all dressed up but can’t go).
Most of us just disconnect the battery every time we leave it for a few days. Easy to do. Kinda solves the problem. Kinda.
For those of you who don’t know, one of the big reasons GM killed the Fiero is that, in 1988, once that new suspension was put in, and a turbo put on the V6, the dang Fiero was faster around GM’s test track than the current model Corvette.
Yes, I’m dead serious. In that trim it would have cost about half of what the ‘vette did.
No freakin’ way was GM gonna let *that* happen.
So, they killed the Fiero.
-Stan (who has not yet put a blower on his ’88… but is sorely tempted..)
The directional wheels mounted wrong-way round is playing havoc with my OCD. Also, it’s an automatic. 80’s and 90’s era slushboxes are no bueno, especially in a sports car.