Indy Pace Car Edition: 1984 Pontiac Fiero
With only around 2,000 of these cars made, this 1984 Pontiac Fiero Indy Pace Car edition is a pretty rare example. This one can be found here on eBay and it’s located in Salina, Kansas. The current bid price is almost $2,500 but of course, the reserve isn’t met yet. Our own Jeff Lavery just showed us an Indy edition Fiero so either it’s a new trend or they aren’t as rare as I think they are!
This car, of course, didn’t actually pace the Indianapolis 500, it’s a tribute car made by Pontiac to show off their involvement in the 1984 race. It was the first four-cylinder Indy pace car since a Stutz paced it in 1912. There were three Fieros that were actual pace cars and they had a beefier drivetrain with a Super Duty engine and 232 horsepower as compared to this car’s 92 hp. The seller is “the 2nd owner of this unique Pace Car. The original owner and his son literally drove this car to car shows all across the country until the father passed away and the son had a hip replacement and could no longer drive it. The car sat in storage for years with kids and grand kids taking it out to keep it running.”
These photos are all over the board, from two normal looking side view photos to two identical and washed-out front photos, one of which is shown above, a thumbnail-sized single interior photo, a stock image showing the pace car series, no engine photos, and a window sticker. I’m always confused as to how many different sizes and even types of files show up in ads. You can see in the window sticker photo that the Indy Pace car package added an extra $2,895 to the price. That’s $7,046 in 2018 dollars, no small sum in any decade. The 92-hp, 2.5L inline-four Iron Duke engine isn’t shown but they say that it “was rebuilt 30k ago and runs out strong.”
This is the only interior photo and it was small so my apologies at how choppy it looks here. That is one sweet interior no matter how small or choppy the photo is! I have never sat in a Fiero so I have no idea if I’d even fit but I’ve always liked them. It seems like once GM got the bugs worked out of them they discontinued the line, isn’t that always the way it goes? The seller has “recently spent 800.00 on new tires with less than 30 miles on them. Everything works on this vehicle even the pop up headlights are new and both power windows have new regulators.” Have any of you seen an Indy Pace Car edition Fiero?
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Fiero Mania Today! I love it barn finds!
This stuff writes itself!
Ummmmmmmmm fire is not coming from the engine compartment, nice try though…….
Ummmmmmmmmmm talk to the guy who took the picture. Did Fieros burn or not?
10-4 Rubber duck!
I’m betting that every mass-produced car has caught fire at some point. The very early Fiero’s did have a recall to address a fire possibility (as have many modern day cars), but actual fires were an extremely small number of cases. The list of cars/trucks that have had recalls due to fire possibility would be more extensive than could fit on a page (I’m betting more Tesla’s have caught fire). But it’s the Fiero that gets the brunt of criticism. The reputation of the Fiero, by many uninformed people, is far worse than what the reality was.
Its about .03% of all Fieros made that have had a fire issue, but people keep harping on it, your more likely to have your new $350,000 Ferrari catch fire than a Fiero but hey………
My sincerest apologies to the Fiero Club of America. You make a lovely couple. Keep your extinquishers handy. If either of you have a sense of humor (Highly doubtful) check out the Monty Python sketch on cannablism in the Royal Navy.You will enjoy the Admiral stating that “The problem is relatively under control”
Fieros did burn. So did every make and model. Here’s a fact, of the 200,000+ thousand Fieros built in the first two years of production, about 135 burned. That puts the Fiero in the AVERAGE bucket for ratio of cars that caught fire of all makes/models sold in the U.S. those same two years. In other words, fake news.
Exactly. When all was said and done, for all years of Fiero, only .036% of them caught fire, according to the NTSB. And most were from the first year of production.
The random photos give the vibe of being pulled from the internet… the tire brand even differs between the profile shots, and that front spoiler has been well used judging by the scratches. I’d definitely want to see the condition of this one in person before bidding. I’d take my chances on the other one posted today, if only based on the photos.
I agree, not all of the photos are of the same car.
My sis had a fiero i thought it was awkward get in an out cause of the low profile seats they way you sit your legs were like almost laying down with your upper body sitting up and it sits low you had to grab the door or the A pillar to help get yourself out.
Other than that it was an ok car.
I may have told this story before but when I was in high school, I worked summers at the Pontiac dealer where my dad was general manager and service director. Pocono Raceway was doing a Pontiac promotion where 50 of these Fieros did a parade lap before a NASCAR race. The local dealers were encouraged to buy them for their lots and as part of the deal you were allowed to drive the ones you bought in the parade lap (plus pit passes, etc). I was car number 1, dad was in 2 and my older brother was in 3. I was pretty nervous, as my Fiero was a manual and I didn’t want to stall it. I was behind a trans am, which was an actual pace car and I think we did three laps in a tight formation three wide. Never got above 60 mph, but man, what a thrill that was. They had an actual drivers meeting where they explained all the rules, including when we are on the banking going slow, be careful or you’ll drift down into the car next to you.
I went and looked at a Pace car edition for sale a couple years ago, asking $1,000, it had been repainted, had around 80k miles I think, the guy had even acquired some exterior emblems that had been stolen. I was tempted but passed on it, seems like it had some rust in the rear rockers. The headrests are supposed to have Indy 500 or something embroiderd in them. I have always wanted an Indy Pace Car replica, these would probably be one of the more affordable ones. There’s a real rough 93 Camaro Pace car in my town also.
There’s no way there was any rust on the body, its all plastic.
check the birdcage!!! it must have a birdcage!!!!!!!!!
Poptheclutch my dad had a 87 fiero and we always turned sideways in the seat and put my feet on the ground before I got up out of the car and then we got in the car pretty much the same way but opposite and I’m about 6’1 and my dad is 6’2 we we had plenty of room in it and my buddy rode in the car with me once and he is 6’4 and he had enough room also
Steve S: same procedure in a Saturn S Series, two or four door. Back up, drop down and twist around to a legs out position a** on the floor, basically.
And where I learned to hate it.
Lots of Japanese small cars of the period were set up the same way
Buy it to save it before some moron thinks we need another un saleable Ferrari clown.. err.. clone car to be made out of it.
MR2 and Fiero never my cup of tea.
I’m a Pontiac guy, thru and thru, although that mostly applies to the pre-1975 cars. But I always liked the looks of the Fiero, and I know the Iron Duke 4 cylinder was very reliable in other applications. But the Fiero project was one of the many exercises in futility for Pontiac in the later years. A great concept was proposed and conceived, only to be screwed up by the bean counters and boardroom bozos at GM. Forced into using smaller engines than proposed, and the interior being entirely out of the GM plastic parts bins, it got a very rocky start. By the time Pontiac was able to get the bugs out, and get it to a respectable power level for the time, GM gave it the ax. And I can’t believe the Pace Car package added 3 grand to the price! That’s just crazy 😝
I know, Pontiac wanted to make the interior out of marble and gold, but those durned “GM Bean Counters”……LOL…..
I love Fieros too, but you “Fiero Truther” guys are just way out there sometimes….
As if there was a giant conspiracy to sink a car that, with the exception of its first year, really wasn’t a great seller at all, no matter what was done to it.
The Fiero was always proposed as a small, fuel efficient sporty car priced under $8000 designed around the upcoming FWD X-car components, no real ground breaker there, GM basically did the same think Fiat did when the created the X1/9. The car was sold to management as a high mpg 2 passenger commuter car.
I never understood why the insurance was so high on these.
Here’s a hint
lol, you’re a foo. probably believe everything you hear
Dweezilaz that was the easiest and the best way to get in and out of a fiero and it didn’t bother me much and I drove that car to school when I was in high school and my cousin had a all steel late 70’s fiat x19 and it was the same way to get in and out of that car also and his car was almost mint condition except for a small dent on the driver’s side rear fender and the motor needed rebuilt and he sold it as a rolling chassis and he never got a chance to rebuild the engine and put back in the car when he sold
The Window Sticker photo has a different VIN number than is listed in the EBAY ad.
Ike is a funny guy.
The only thing I remember about Fieros was that the chics loved them.
Some pretty hot chics as I recall.
“We Build Excitement!” You had to be “hot” to ride in a Fiero.
Why is it some people have to have a hate on and just cant keep their negative opinions to themselves.
So Ike doesnt like the fiero. Ok we get that. However some of us do like them and others yet can appreciate their uniqueness.
Some of the cars posted here i really like, some i couldnt care less. However in polite company a person wishing to show a modicum of class and decency will just keep the negativity to themselves.
Well said Bradley, and not only that but his comments aren’t even factual, just hyped up misleading fakery…which makes them even more useless than silly opinions.