My 1986 Pontiac Fiero SE

[luxy1205]

Here's my latest new baby! My husband's boss collects Fieros and he was selling one of them and gave us a great deal on it! Plus, it even came with a parts car! Bonus!!! So, here she is my 1986 Pontiac Fiero SE with a 2.8 MPFI V6 manual. I can't wait to start driving it! There's a few little bugs with it, so not up and running yet, but will be very soon. BTW, her name is "Goldie". She has less than 100,000 miles on her which is outstanding! We will be repainting her soon too! I just noticed in the pictures that I'm in some of them! So, I'm using the chain fall to move the car up the slight hill in our yard so it could be put in the driveway. We had to do this because the inner tie rod end was busted and the slave cylinder for the clutch is missing, so way for a chain and manual human slave labor! Ha Ha! My arms were on fire when I got done moving her! To credit my husband taking the pictures, he wanted to do it, but I said it was my car and I wanted to do it! So, after "Goldie" was in the driveway, I had to use the chain fall again to put her inside the garage, then had to do it yet again to move the parts car into the driveway! I don't want to use the chain fall for a really long time now! Ha Ha! Just thought I would share my new old car with you all!!! -Michelle

 

[marks_here]

Ohhh I'm so excited for you!!! It reminds me of the GT model they had out. My friend Rex in Miami had a black one...fabulous. They are so much fun to drive!!!! Glad you rescued it & now it has an excellent home!! Oh those rims, get a dish sponge (have to find which one will fit in the cut outs) with a handle, it works better then a rag with a finger in each one! Again congrats Michelle...you're gonna have a blast!!!

 

[gusherb]

Awesome! My neighbor has a silver 1986 Fiero SE 2.8 automatic that he's owned since 1991. It's been parked in his garage for 7 years because it needs alot of work including a new exhaust manifold though... I wish he'd restore it!

 

[d-jones]

I always liked these cars. They were better looking than Toyota's Mister 2 and they were made here, which is always a good thing. But for a few details here and there this one looks like it's in pretty good shape. It should be a fun project, and when it's finished you get to drive it.

 

[super-sweeper]

what a cute little car!

100,000 miles is a steal considering my DreamSoto has 383,000 Miles on it, and it only drove for 18 years! I'll need a parts car, the poor thing has no seats!! 

 


mind me asking what 1 1/2 Pontiac Fieros ran you? I hope my DreamSoto doesn't run me .95% of a fortune, and I hope your Fierros didn't put a dent in your credit score! I wonder if the Chevetes are sharing shed space with the Fieros? Or worse, being CHALLENGED for shed space by the Fieros!!!!

 

[tolivac]

Like the chain saw motor-come along "car" puller!!Great use for it!!Railroad yards used a similar but larger device for moving railcars when just to move one of them a short distance you didn't want to use a locomotive.Hence an electric or gas powered "car" puller!Neat car-good luck in fixing her up!

 

[vac-o-matic]

TV Fiero sighting...

Saw one last night on a How I Met Your Mother rerun, in silver, right after I had read your post. She got in, fired it up, and drove away!

 

[nycwriter]

LOVE!

I've always been a fan of the Fiero!

 

[suckolux]

the front end I believe is Chevette parts, should be easy and cheap to fix

 

[Gr8DaneDad]

Love it! Goldie is gorgeous. The Fiero has always been a favorite.

 

[super-sweeper]

vac-o-matic,

It's so funny you mention that, while I was reading this thread, they were discussing the Fiero on 'American Dad'! They went back in time and told a lady that she'll still be driving a Fiero 10 years later! She was excited, and said 'I'm getting a Pontiac Fiero!?'

 


Fun fact-I've said 'Fiero' to the point that my auto-correct now recognizes it!

 

[luxy1205]

super-sweeper

Ha ha auto correct! Goldie cost $500 and the red parts car seen in a picture was free! We couldn't pass that deal up! Since Sammy does body work, paints, and restores show cars for a living it just makes it more of a steal for us! Plus, his boss is like the nicest guy ever! He didn't want those cars anymore and he was so elated that we wanted to restore Goldie! We've been working on her this whole weekend! I will post more pictures soon! -Michelle

 

[super-sweeper]

Looking forward to them! And what a steal!!!!

 

[super-sweeper]

Hey Michelle, how's the Fiero coming? I could've sworn I just saw somebody drag-race a gold Fiero on a commercial for 'Street Outlaws'!

 

[luxy1205]

Alex

She's coming along good! We just pulled the transaxle off of the red parts car and got it all cleaned up waiting for us to drop Goldie's transaxle and do a swap. We've shampooed the carpet and seats a week ago. Now we're doing some engine maintenance. Gotta go thru the plenum and throttle body and get a new distributor cap; simple things like that. She does need a little more work than anticipated, but it's all stuff we can do. I've actually been watching that show as of lately and I haven't seen that episode! I'll have to watch for it! I will post more pictures soon, hence I have to take some first! Ha Ha! -Michelle

 

[super-sweeper]

Sounds like you're having fun, Michelle! 

 

[luxy1205]

Pictures of Goldie!

These pictures I took last night. The seat covers will be replaced hence the tears, but for now we shampooed them and Sammy will repair them from tearing more until we get replacements. She still needs work done on the interior, nothing difficult. Her trunk liner that was originally in her wreaked of mouse urine! When we got the car there was a better looking trunk liner inside, so we used that one instead. We did shampoo it before we installed it. The engine is missing some stuff, but we have all the parts to put back on her. Still in the process! I will post more pictures soon of the transaxle from the parts car that will be going into her. -Michelle

 

[super-sweeper]

that's a small trunk!

But if there's one thing I love about those older Pontiacs, it's the flip headlights! 

 

[luxy1205]

Alex

I concur! The flip up headlights are cool! The trunk is small, but it's really deep! The pic doesn't do it justice. -Michelle

 

[Gr8DaneDad]

Lover her. Can't wait to see her finished and back to her original glory


 

 

[kirbyloverdan]

Loved the Fiero`s

I almost got one as my first car instead my parents wanted me to have a safe huge car so I bought a 1985 Cadilac Eldorado Biarritz that I bought cash from all my vacuum sales . I used to sell Hoover convertibles exclusively . Enjoy a brand that they removed from history but I am glad your saving this one .

Dan

 

[luxy1205]

Dan

Thanks! I love saving stuff from being thrown out! For example, my husband has a V6 that he was rebuilding a few winters back and the camshaft was no good. He was going to throw it out and I said I wanted it so I could make a table lamp out of it! We had a good friend of ours drill it out for us because we don't have a lathe and a drill bit that long! All I need to do is get a cord and wire her up and she will work! Something saved and made into something cool!!! I love fixing old stuff up and giving it a second chance at life!!! -Michelle

 

[DesertTortoise]

A friend put a GM small block V-8 in one of those. Yaa-hoo. Clean installation too. In his car it mated right to the stock transaxle. From outside the car nothing gave the game away. The cooling system was apparently adequate for a V-8.

These remind me in a way of the last iteration of the Corvair. GM finally gets all the details right then cancels the model forever. These and Corvairs were great handling cars but GM never really figured out how to sell them, and always seemed to cheap out on some parts of the car so there were always reasons to criticize both.

Keep us posted on the progress. I love seeing orphans get love.

 

[suckolux]

I remember going to the car shows when they came out, showing the bodies snapping off and on, little models all dressed up doing it of course. I think the car was intended as a cheap commuter, hence the Chevette front end and iron duke motor, but styling got a hold of it and price went up!They had many recalled for the Iron Duke with cracked blocks too if I remember correctly.

 

[luxy1205]

suckolux

What's ironic is that we own 2 Chevettes!!! The Chevette is my husband's favorite car! He used to have a 1976, 2 door, 4 speed that he bought as his first car. He restored it and used to show it at car shows; this was all way before I knew him though. Sadly in 1992 it got stolen and he never found it! When I met him, this was in 2006 and he still talked about Chevettes! He wanted to get a 76 again, but come to find out in 2006 they're harder to find and more expensive! He had a friend in a near by town that was selling a 1985 (new body styled) Chevette, he didn't want it because it wasn't what he had. Mind you, he restores antique/muscle cars for a living! I said to him, why don't you buy it and convert it to look like an old one? With that, he bought it and has been rebuilding/working on it ever since! I now own one as well! I like the look of the newer body style 4 doors. Hence, I go grocery shopping and what not, a 2 door is like a clown car to try to get in it! Ha Ha! He bought me a 1980, 4 door, automatic, w/air, and the RARE H/O motor w/dual exhaust!!!! We are in the process of restoring both of our Chevettes right along with Goldie!!! BTW, my Chevette is named Roxy and his is Beest. His old one was named Beast, he wanted the same name, but spelt it differently. It's pretty ironic too, for the fact that we are a household full of Chevettes and then we get a Fiero that shares Chevette parts! Too funny! I'll do a new thread on a our Chevettes. -Michelle

 

[suckolux]

I had a VERY orange 76 myself for 2 years? It was almost new when I got it, simple, a bit crude on the freeway held wide open, yes I did. Never broke.Mine had the rubber mat in the back hatch and no tinted windows, boy it smelled like burning rubber all the time.I had a rural paper route at the time, so it was perfect for that.

 

[suckolux]

Oh and my friends all called it my Shove It

 

[DesertTortoise]

The Chevette owed a lot of it's design to the Opel Kadett if the one brain cell to survive the Navy is working properly today.

I never drove a Chevette but a lady friend of the time had an '84 Cavalier with the Iron Fluke four banger (which was originally a tractor motor from Brazil!) and my memory of it was getting passed by everything on the highway on I-70 in Colorado. The car could just barely get out of it's own way.

The Fiero had a front suspension peeled off a Chevette and the rear suspension, half shafts and I believe the transaxle came off the front of a Chevy Citation. A car with two front suspensions! No, really.

 

[DesertTortoise]

That era for American cars was pretty much scraping the bottom of the barrel. Almost nothing made here had any kind of quality. I had an Olds Cutlass back then, purchased new. None of the body panel gaps were even, it squeaked from the day it was new (not big squeaks, but lots of little ticks and chirps), and where the roof panel was joined to the C-pillars you could see where the body shop did a hideous job of leading and grinding the seam. The joint was lumpy and you could see grind marks in he paint. Of course the paint was orange peeled too. Horrible quality control at GM back then.