According to the seller of today’s Nice Price or No Dice Fiero GT, the car was obtained as an inheritance, and now they don’t know what to do with it. Let’s see if it’s priced well enough to pass on to someone who does.
We live in an era of fakers and liars. Politicians tout military bravery while, in reality, having never raised a rife. Industrialists consistently boast product features that never live up to the hype. In this environment, driving a car like yesterday’s 2010 Cadillac CTS wagon posing as a performance V either doesn’t seem so bad or is evidence of its owner having finally ceded the last shreds of propriety. At $18,500, few of you saw that shedding of decorum worth your time or your bank account. The result was the poseur Caddy going down in an honest-to-goodness 87 percent No Dice loss.
No one could ever call the Pontiac Fiero a faker, even though the model’s space frame monocoque and plastic body panel design has led to many having been converted to aping cars that they are not.
That’s why it’s a relief to find this 1986 Pontiac Fiero GT in unmolested and seemingly all-original (save for the engine) condition. This was the first year of the separate GT model. A GT had been added to the Fiero line the previous year, but this model’s fastback body style didn’t debut until halfway through the 1986 model year.
Featuring a deeper front air dam, windowed sail panels, and a totally different tail lamp treatment, the ’86 GT was intended to stand apart from the standard Fiero and leverage the platform’s sporting nature that, up until that point, GM executives had attempted to quell so as not to allow Pontiac to steal sales from Chevy’s hallowed Corvette.
Along with the bodywork changes, the GT featured bigger, 15-inch wheels and filled the engine bay with a 140-horsepower 2.8-liter V6, ironically sourced from the house of Corvette, Chevy. That was mated with a standard Getrag/Muncie five-speed manual. All of these changes resulted in a Fiero that cost over four grand more than the base car.
According to the ad, this GT was bequeathed to the seller, who, oddly enough, has “no need” for it. They describe it as a “good little car” and claim it “runs well.” There are a substantial 174,000 miles on the clock, but the ad says the engine was replaced at some point, which has only done a light 60K.
Despite the high miles overall, the Fiero looks decent in the ad, especially the gray cloth and plastic interior. Yes, the driver’s side floor mat looks like it should be put out to pasture, and the aftermarket stereo sticks out—literally—like a sore thumb, but overall, it appears to be a pleasant space.
On the outside, more wear is evident, and one headlamp appears to be non-working, lending the car a rope-a-dope appearance. The fix for this can be rather involved, but the mechanism’s repair is possible. The only other issue appears to be some flaws in the paint, but nothing major. The title is clean, and the price tag is $4,000.
What’s your opinion of this “unneeded” Fiero and that $4K asking? Does that make it something a Fiero lover might actually need? Or is this passed-on Pontiac priced to get passed over?
You decide!
Facebook Marketplace out of Portland, Oregon, or go here if the ad disappears.
H/T to Bill Lyons for the hookup!
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