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1986 Pontiac Fiero Makes 308 Replica on 2040-cars

US $8,500.00
Year:1986 Mileage:3000
Location:

Walworth, New York, United States

Walworth, New York, United States
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The car was purchased off ebay in the spring of 2012. The actual building of the kit is posted on the Fiero Forum at….http://www.fiero.nl/forum/Forum1/HTML/087053.html

The owner did a great job on the kit, but had so much time into it I think he was a little overwhelmed by the mechanicals. Also, he had badged it as a Ferrari. I wasn’t big on everyone telling me “That’s just a fake Ferrari” and I thought the MERA had an interesting story, so I created a MERA clone, so no; this is not a true MERA.

I started with the motor.

Existing motor had a massive oil leak, and a rod knock, so I pulled it and replaced with a 2.8 that I had rebuilt at a machine shop. The motor was bored, new bearings, new oil pump, polished crank. New pistons and rings, heads shaved and valve job done. Comp Cams cam shaft and roller rockers installed, new alternator, water pump, hoses, plugs, wires, coil, distributor and Gel battery. MSD Ignition. Motor is basically a @250 hp 3.1 liter. While the motor was out, I cleaned and repainted the engine compartment, and installed a new battery tray. The engine runs great, and has less than 3,000 miles since the rebuild. The exhaust is custom, I replaced the cherry bomb muffler with a catalytic converter so the car is NYS legal.

Listed below is all the mechanical parts/work I have done

·         Vented/Slotted brake rotors

·         New calipers

·         New E brake cables

·         New shocks

·         New front wheel bearings

·         New Axles and seals

·         New clutch/throw out bearing

·         New clutch hydraulics

·         New steering rack

·         New Ball joints

·         New tie rods

·         New champion 3 core radiator

·         New hoses

·         Left scoop is working cold air intake with K and N filter

·         New front tires, replaced damaged front wheels.

Listed below is the interior work I have done

·         New carpet

·         New floor mats

·         Recovered head liner

·         Recovered door

·         New speakers

·         New Pontiac AM/FM CD player from a sun fire with GM harness.

·         New Temp/Gas gauge

·         New turn signal switch in column

·         New window switches

·         Replaced shifter with short arm from 1984

·         Door Panel toppers from MERA

·         New Seats

Listed below is the electrical work I have done

·         Disconnected fan from permanent ‘on”

·         180 degree fan switch/thermostat with manual bypass

·         Replace tail light harness/sockets

·         Repair license plate lamp wiring

·         Repair dome light

·         Connected horn

·         Replaced back up light switch

·         Replaced turn stalk

·         Projector headlights Installed

·         New wiper control board

Body/cosmetic work I did

·         Replace tail lights with MERA lights

·         Replaced  faded front marker lights

·         Install back up lights

·         Repainted roof

·         Installed trunk seal and adjusted deck lid for proper seal

·         Installed hydraulic lift arms on deck lid

·         Put screens in side vents

·         Pontiac wheel centers

·         MERA emblems

·         Removed all overspray from car

·         Installed factory inner fenders

·         Replaced front bumper brackets

·         Replaced chicken wire screening under hood and deck lid with perforated metal

·         Sealed/repaired leaky deck lid (filled with water)

·         Installed new side mirrors

Car needs:

·         AC condenser and conversion to R-135

·         Gas tank sending unit

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Burt Reynolds' movie re-creations fetch $379,500 in Vegas

Wed, Oct 3 2018

The recent death of Hollywood legend and automotive enthusiast Burt Reynolds helped drive up the value of four of his former cars from the 1970s and '80s, which sold last weekend at Barrett-Jackson's Las Vegas auction for a combined $379,500. Reynolds, who died Sept. 6 at age 82, had offered three Pontiac Trans Ams — two of them re-creations of the cars he drove in "Smokey and the Bandit" and "Hooper" and the third from 1984 used to promote his United States Football League team, the Tampa Bay Bandits. The fourth was a 1978 Chevrolet R30 pickup truck, styled like the one featured in "Cannonball Run." The "Bandit" re-creation, a 1978 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am that Reynolds ordered to be as "movie-correct" as possible but featuring a custom-built 200-4R automatic transmission, sold for $192,500. The car features a freshly built Pontiac 400 cubic-inch V8 mated to a four-speed automatic and featuring all-new Butler Performance parts and air-conditioning components. Reynolds reportedly said this was his favorite car from his films, and it even came with an authentic movie-correct CB radio and CB antenna. The red retro-rocket "Hooper" '78 Firebird, with a 403 cubic-inch V8 and a three-speed automatic, hammered for $88,000. By comparison, a gold 1978 Trans Am also offered at the Las Vegas auction but not connected to Reynolds fetched $27,500. The 1987 Chevy R30 pickup was a re-creation of the Indy Hauler pace truck seen jumping over a moving freight train in "Cannonball Run." It hammered for $49,500. The fourth car never appeared in any of Reynolds' films but is instead the only surviving example of two Trans Ams used to promote the Tampa Bay Bandits of the now-defunct USFL, having been driven out onto the field by Reynolds and his late friend and co-star, Jerry Reed, during opening day one season. It also sold for $49,500. At the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale Auction in 2016, Reynolds accompanied a 1977 Trans Am used to promote "Bandit" onto the auction block. That car sold for $550,000. Related Video: Featured Gallery Burt Reynolds 2018 Barrett-Jackson Las Vegas Auction Image Credit: Barrett-Jackson Celebrities Chevrolet Pontiac Truck Coupe Performance celebrity pontiac trans am pontiac firebird burt reynolds

Here are a few of our automotive guilty pleasures

Tue, Jun 23 2020

It goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway. The world is full of cars, and just about as many of them are bad as are good. It's pretty easy to pick which fall into each category after giving them a thorough walkaround and, more important, driving them. But every once in a while, an automobile straddles the line somehow between good and bad — it may be hideously overpriced and therefore a marketplace failure, it may be stupid quick in a straight line but handles like a drunken noodle, or it may have an interior that looks like it was made of a mess of injection-molded Legos. Heck, maybe all three. Yet there's something special about some bad cars that actually makes them likable. The idea for this list came to me while I was browsing classified ads for cars within a few hundred miles of my house. I ran across a few oddballs and shared them with the rest of the team in our online chat room. It turns out several of us have a few automotive guilty pleasures that we're willing to admit to. We'll call a few of 'em out here. Feel free to share some of your own in the comments below. Dodge Neon SRT4 and Caliber SRT4: The Neon was a passably good and plucky little city car when it debuted for the 1995 model year. The Caliber, which replaced the aging Neon and sought to replace its friendly marketing campaign with something more sinister, was panned from the very outset for its cheap interior furnishings, but at least offered some decent utility with its hatchback shape. What the two little front-wheel-drive Dodge models have in common are their rip-roarin' SRT variants, each powered by turbocharged 2.4-liter four-cylinder engines. Known for their propensity to light up their front tires under hard acceleration, the duo were legitimately quick and fun to drive with a fantastic turbo whoosh that called to mind the early days of turbo technology. — Consumer Editor Jeremy Korzeniewski  Chevrolet HHR SS: Chevy's HHR SS came out early in my automotive journalism career, and I have fond memories of the press launch (and having dinner with Bob Lutz) that included plenty of tire-smoking hard launches and demonstrations of the manual transmission's no-lift shift feature. The 260-horsepower turbocharged four-cylinder was and still is a spunky little engine that makes the retro-inspired HHR a fun little hot rod that works quite well as a fun little daily driver.

This 1988 Pontiac Grand Prix Daytona 500 pace car could be yours

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