beautiful 1979 10th anniversary Trans Am; VIN number 2X87K9L167272. I still have the original build sheet and owner’s manual. About 99.5% of this car has been reconditioned or replaced. I have about 1.5 inches of receipts to show the work. It is easier and shorter to list what needs to be done vs what was complete. I’ve had the car since 2003 and I never ran or turned on the air conditioner so it may or may not work. The cruise control doesn’t work. The original 8-track display is orange not red, I don’t know why, and it no longer holds the preset stations or time. Never the less, it works great with good reception and plays the tapes. The power antenna works as it should. Even the little clock in the dash still works. The car is not an original purist restoration. I fixed it to drive, not be trailered. For example, the factory cars had the underside of the engine hood a flat black and the underside of the trunk painted silver. I’ve always thought that looked strange and unfinished, therefore, I painted the underside of the hood silver and added the insolation pad. When I replaced the head liner, I used the felt material, not the original perforated vinyl because it gives the car a warmer feeling inside. It has the original rims but instead of refinishing the polished aluminum, I had them chrome plated. To me, chrome looks and holds up better than polished aluminum. I also installed a modern radio with CD in place of the map tray. There is an extra toggle switch installed next to the rear window defogger switch that controls which radio is playing. I also installed a true duel exhaust with Flowmasters and a Holley 650 or 750 CFM carburetor. I don’t remember which and my receipt from Mondello Performance Products does not list it. The original motor had 88,565 miles on it. I rebuilt the engine in 2005 and now it has 90,122 miles on the car. In ten years I’ve driven the car about 1500 miles, or about 150 miles per year. The car has been kept garaged and protected. I am a non-smoker so there are no nasty odors. I have done extensive work on this car, inside and out.

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CNN chronicles young girl building Pontiac Fiero

Fri, 26 Oct 2012

At fourteen years of age, Kathryn DiMaria has already done what many self-proclaimed gearheads won't even attempt in their lifetimes. The Dearborn, Michigan teen is rebuilding a car from the ground up.
The intrepid youngster asked her parents when she was just twelve to start a Pontiac Fiero project, even offering to pony up all the funds herself. Father, Jerry DiMaria only expected the project to last a few months, but two years later, Kathryn is still at it. In this CNN video, the two are at Maker Faire (a DIY festival) rebuilding a 3.4-liter V6 engine out of a Chevrolet Camaro to replace the 2.8-liter mill found in the Fiero.
The whole family hast pitched in, with Kathryn's mother teaching her how to sew in order to complete the interior, father Jerry providing much of the technical know-how, and even her sister is chronicling Kathryn's progress through photos. Jerry even started a thread in a Fiero forum which has been live for two years and is now 22 pages long. Of the project, one forum member wrote, "welcome to the madness."

GM recalling 426,000 sedans over faulty transmission shift cable

Fri, 21 Sep 2012

General Motors is recalling some 426,240 sedans that may have a faulty transmission shift cable, according to a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration report this morning. The recall concerns a fault within four-speed automatic transmissions equipped on 2007-2010 Saturn Aura models, and 2008-2010 Chevrolet Malibu and Pontiac G6 models.
The report specifies that tabs on the transmission shift cable may fracture and separate. Such a fault could cause a discrepancy between the actual position of the transmission and the apparent position of the shift lever.
GM is currently working to notify owners of the vehicles in question, and dealers will check and replace shift cables free of charge. Scroll down to read the complete NHTSA report.

Lutz says Washington killed Pontiac, next G6 was to be ATS derivative

Tue, 29 Oct 2013

How many people think Buick or GMC should have gotten the axe instead of Pontiac? You can't see it, but I'm raising my hand. Autoweek reports that former Vice Chairman of GM, Bob Lutz, has indicated that things didn't have to end up the way they did.
"The Feds said, 'Yeah, how much money have you made on Pontiac in the last 10 years?' and the answer was, 'Nothing.'"
In a talk given at the Petersen Automotive Museum for the Inside the MotoMan Studio series, Lutz says "The Feds said, 'Yeah, how much money have you made on Pontiac in the last 10 years?' and the answer was, 'Nothing.' So, it goes. And when the guy who is handing you the check for $53 billion says, 'I don't want Pontiac, drop Pontiac or you don't get the money,' it doesn't take you very long to make up your mind." Lutz even added that the next-generation Pontiac G6 would have benefitted from the rear-wheel-drive platform of the Cadillac ATS. How awesome would that have been?

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