Oh its gonna happen & there gonna build a new Fiero to.:rofl_200::rofl_200::rofl_200:
Pontiac is Back!!!!
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When those came out, I went to the dealer. They wanted about 15% over list, "limited availability!" I believe the V6 wan't avail at first, and that was what I was most interested in, something w/h.p., not just a 2.5 L. economical car. And if you like Excaliburs, Zimmer Golden Spirits, Clenets, and the like, you could've ordered this instead of your garden-variety Fiero, and delivered from your Pontiac dealer:
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I owned two Trans-Ams, one I bought a year old and the other I bought from the original owner, it was a 400 Pontiac WS6 Hurst "T-Hatch" old-English script "6.6 Litre" authentic gold-pinstriped "Smokey & the Bandit" edition. All "Smokey & the Bandit" cars came with Hurst T-Hatches. Neither ran particularly fast compared to earlier 455 editions, but compared to stock cars of the day, they pretty-much ruled the roost. They sure were pretty, and people always commented on their appearance. Not for the faint-of-heart, w/all the fender spats, hood scoop, spoilers, the hood bird, derisively referred to as the 'screaming chicken,' and the wide aluminum wheels. I think they had one of the best-looking modern dashboards, and the "Smokey & the Bandit" edition had gold tint for the engine-turned dash panel and the metal steering wheel trim, as well as the front nose 'nostrils.' I put over 100K mi on the "Smokey & the Bandit" and the only thing I did beyond replacing things as they wore out was to do tune-ups and feed it gas, lots of gas. Twelve mpg. Even in FL the Tin Worm can strike, and I sold it for enough to buy a friend's Mustang GT outright, the first year they started making them again. That year they were faster than the Corvette, a source of embarassment for GM owners of plastic cars. I ripped-out the SROD 4 speed & swapped-in a Borg Warner T5 5-speed, which made it a whole lot more fun to drive than the Mexican-built iron-case overdrive truck tranny they came with stock. At that time I also had a beautiful Z28, but the GT was much more fun to drive than the Z28, smaller, more-agile. Yeah, I was single, how'd you know?
Incidentally, AJ Foyt took a 4 cyl highly-modified by Batten Engineering & Fueling and set a closed-course record with it (257 mph!) in 1987. Its top-end was even more. (engine info below)
That "Quad Four" was a good design, capable of far-more than people gave it credit for. It was the first 4 valve/cyl GM production design. So, four cyls' can play too. Honda's success with the four is proof of that, all the tuners wring big power out of them.
bobzdar
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Yeah, that looks like fun! Too-heavy to be competitive, but for a track day, lotsa fun! One of the most-fun times I had w/mine was a trip to Walt Disney World, beautiful days up & back, t-tops out, just cruising, no need for burning up the road, just a great time w/my g.f. in the car.
The 1939 Pontiac Deluxe 6, also referred to as the "Ghost Car" because its chassis was constructed of plexiglass , is driven at the Inn at St. Johns in Plymouth, Mich. July 28, 2011. The see-through Pontiac built by General Motors for the 1939-40 New York World's Fair is going on the auction block this weekend. The car's Plexiglas body offers a view of its chrome, steel and iron innards. It also features white-colored rubber moldings and tires. (AP Photo/Detroit News
Now they're going retro!
Now they're going retro!
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