If anyone has any pictures of the actual Porsche eater taillights please post them, the ones on the factory notchback 2.9 turbo prototypes, they don't seem to be anywhere to be found on the internet, and that is a valuable piece of Fiero history that should be preserved and accessible.
Just in case this might jog someone's memory... from the book, Fiero by Gary Witzenburg.
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Originally that 2.9 Fiero said Porsche Eater on the back," relates John M. Sawruk, manager in charge of Pontiac's motorsports and special products. Jay Wetzel had John Schinella design the Porsche Eater logo, but it had to come off when Pontiac called on Porsche for other powertrain proposals. In any case, Sawruk recalls the dyno output of this turbocharged aluminum 2.9 V-6 as around 235 bhp rather than 220. Sawruk adds that, even among the engineers who built it, there were serious misgivings about marketing a car this hot. "When you get to a 6-second 0-60 car," he comments, "there are a lot of people out there I'd rather didn't drive it. We honestly talked about including, in the price of the car, mandatory lessons at a professional driving school. We would have insisted that the buyer complete the course before taking delivery.
I swear, I have seen images of the Porsche Eater taillights. I just don't remember where.
This is an image of the front of the Fiero in question, which doesn't help us too much... other than to indicate that the taillights we're interested in were for a notchie.
I’m not saying you never saw some but I have been at this for a very long time and never saw the tail lamps. To be honest there are few original photos of the cars outside those in the Fiero book.
If not for that book we would never heard of the tail lamps.
Much went on in 1984-85. They were well on the way working on the 1990. They were testing engines, locking in styling, testing plastic 16 inch wheels and I even have the nose emblem engineering drawing dated 1985.
