Thanks for checking out my 88 Pontiac Fiero GT.

Unfortunately, Pontiac decided to pull the plug on the only mid-engine car ever made in the US. It was mostly due to a plummit in sales, but that was also aided by all the rumors about the engine fires. While there were a few, it was mainly the 84-85 SE cars that had this problem.

While these fuel-injected (2.8 liter) V6 motors, propelled these light weight cars around the streets like a go-kart, it was actually the space-age design of the frame and placement of the engine, (sitting between the rear wheels) that gave them such phenominal balance, thus allowing the cars to accelerate through the corners as if they were on rails! The other nice thing about the 88 GT model, was it now came with an upgraded suspension system, giving it even more handling ability.

With the right shocks and springs, and also the right wheel/tire combo, you can literally power thru corners in these cars without ever worrying about rolling them. I can only imagine what the future would have brought for these cars, had they been able to live a little while longer. I highly recommend to anyone who has a Fiero, to hang on to it, as they will surely be a collector car one day! (In many ways they already are!)

While I never got around to taking too many pictures of it, here are a few that were taken not long after I bought it.

When you get to the third page that I just added,
there will be a before and after picture of the wheels. When I bought the car, the rims were still grey, which I thought looked terrible, so I decided to paint them black. It made a huge difference. Also tinting the windows helped too.

Before I bought the car, they installed a remanufactured motor, and put about 22,000 miles on it before selling it to me. They also put in a new clutch, but when they installed the disc plate, they put it in backwards. This was the reason I had to pull it out a few months after I bought it.

I ended up having to change the whole clutch set-up, the clutch fork and both the master and slave cylinder at the same time. By the time I was finished paying for everything that had to be fixed, I was in to it for another $2000.00 (This also included replacing the the cracked manifold closest to the firewall- a total bitch to get to!)

They replaced the motor when the car had 95,200 on it, and I bought it when it had 117K. In the last year and a half, I've put about 11K on it. So while it reads 128,xxx on the odometer, the motor only has 34k on it, and the new clutch system & exhaust only have about 7k on them.
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