Yesterday I saw a new Growth in Fiero Popularity (Page 1/3)
hyperv6 SEP 13, 12:49 PM
I had a very interesting weekend.

I have been a Fiero owner for going on 37 years. I have seen all the stages of owners ship and popularity of the Fiero.

When I bought the car I was the local celebrity. It could have been a Ferrari and I would have drawn the same crowd.

Then the 90’s came and I became the local guy who became the idiot who bought one of those crap cars.

Then over the last 20 years the popularity has risen slowly.


Finally Sunday I was invited to a high end concourse event. They had a wide range of. Cars but the brand with the most makes was Ferrari.

The crowd was a mix of the upper crust, the regular car people and locals just there to visit.

This was my 6th event there and I have gone mostly ignored or missed till this year. I had a number of people of all types come up and just made a fuss over a Fiero with million dollar exotic just feet away.

Driving in one of the event organizers told me to follow a 308. He said follow the Fiero kit car making fun of the Ferrari. I had two other organizers stop and look at my car and said oh you are a Pontiac!

I had the number of adults that said I had one, wanted one or had a friend with one. A number said I forgot they made these and they were cool.

The thing that got me was there were a number of young kids in their early 20’s that walked passed the prince muscle cars and hot rods to get pictures of the Fiero. They loved the car. Many said I have heard about these but never need on or never seen one in good shape.

I normally just do Pontiac shows so I miss these non Pontiac interactions.

With the reactions and comments in feel we may be on the verge of an increased awareness and desire for our car if we could just be seen and heard from.

While I know we will not realize Shelby numbers I do expect we will see competitive prices with other top cars of the 80’s. These $14k prices are not a fluke.

I see many of these kids coming into money in the next 10 years and they will show interest in good low mile cars. No offense to cars needing work but finding parts will hamper future resto efforts unless we get more support. That is not just us but most cars as even prime muscle cars can be bought for less than they cost to restore.

Now yes we still have variables. Things like viruses, emission laws and the like to deal with in the future,

But I find it encouraging that as many of the classics are seeing a decline in values the interest in our cars is growing with the next group up with disposable income.

I have been watching this for a long time and this is the greatest shift I have seen.

The next ten years could be interesting.

hyperv6 SEP 13, 12:56 PM




Brian D SEP 15, 08:37 PM
That's supercool. Love the car. Is that the original DGP body kit? I got into my first Fiero in '92 and have been out of the Fiero game since 2005 when I sold my '88GT. I spent the last year searching for my next Fiero and watched prices hit levels I never imagined. Personally I am really excited to see their popularity come back. There is a classic car show at the local country club in two weeks. I may just have to show off the new GT.
cvxjet SEP 15, 11:40 PM
That is really great. Nice to see Fieros getting some positive attention. The new mid-engine Vette and the F&F 9 movie has opened the eyes of the public to the Fiero.

The "Ignoring $$$$$ cars for the inexpensive cars" thing; A few years ago I went to a "Cars & Coffee" event up near Sacramento, CA....Approx' 100 cars (Muscle car, new Camaros, hot rods, British sports cars, etc) Towards the end of the event, a Ferrari 355 drove into the lot- followed by an Autozam AZ-1, which is a very small Japanese-only MR car....3 cylinder engine, gullwing doors......NOBODY even looked at the Ferrari- they all gathered around the AZ-1 and checked it out....I thought that was really cool.
2.5 SEP 22, 04:00 PM

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Originally posted by hyperv6:

Many said I have heard about these but never need on or never seen one in good shape.



Many people say they dont often see ones in good shape. I'm all for folks with nice Fieros getting them out to events to be witnessed.

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BadNewsBrendan SEP 22, 11:13 PM
Awesome story. I have noticed similar things no matter what genre of the car community an event is. I drove mine to Gridlife which is a Time Attack, wheel to wheel, and drift event for those of you who don't know. The scene is mostly younger JDM and track car fans. I couldn't drive 10 feet in the camp site without people yelling "Fiero!!!!" or something similar and multiple people came up to me asking about it and telling their stories about their experiences with Fieros. Meanwhile i am checking out all the incredible track and drift cars since I have only seen similar cars on the internet

And not to mention the fact that mine is very far from good shape and I bought it for $550...

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RayOtton SEP 23, 07:09 AM

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Originally posted by hyperv6:
The thing that got me was there were a number of young kids in their early 20’s that walked passed the prince muscle cars and hot rods to get pictures of the Fiero. They loved the car. Many said I have heard about these but never need on or never seen one in good shape.



Yup. The 32 year old guy who won the E-bay auction said the same thing you did. The 'kids" are willing to put up good money for excellent condition examples. They are NOT interested in restorations.

FWIW, I really didn't want to let it go but I had to sell mine due to the embarrassing contortions I needed to get OUT of it at age 70, with a bad hip.
2.5 SEP 23, 09:49 AM

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Originally posted by RayOtton:

FWIW, I really didn't want to let it go but I had to sell mine due to the embarrassing contortions I needed to get OUT of it at age 70, with a bad hip.




Was it your daily driver?
RayOtton SEP 23, 11:39 AM

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Originally posted by 2.5:


Was it your daily driver?



No, weekends only.

It just reached a point where I looked ridiculous getting out. Think Giraffe drinking water but in reverse.
hyperv6 SEP 23, 12:12 PM

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Originally posted by Brian D:

That's supercool. Love the car. Is that the original DGP body kit? I got into my first Fiero in '92 and have been out of the Fiero game since 2005 when I sold my '88GT. I spent the last year searching for my next Fiero and watched prices hit levels I never imagined. Personally I am really excited to see their popularity come back. There is a classic car show at the local country club in two weeks. I may just have to show off the new GT.



No it is the Pegasus Engineering FX kit.

It was ripped off the DGP stage 1 as they added ribs.

They are rare as the guy did not ship many parts and got busted for federal interstate fraud. I have only seen two others years ago.

The Indy scoop is a real DGP.