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Capt Fiero
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DEC 09, 11:05 AM
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I have had the opportunity to own a few of them over the years, but it just never turned my crank. I kinda regret not buying the one for $1500 that was for sale in Surrey BC about 10 years ago, it was owned buy a younger kid in our Fiero club. To him it was nothing more than a cool car with a body kit and treated it like a Civic with a body kit. I felt bad for the car.
The one thing I never liked about the car and this is just personal are the tail lights, when the car was being designed, like the Fiero they used what they could of "off the shelf" GM parts. The tail lights are actually from a mid 80's Chevy Cavalier. So if you ever need replacements they are at least cheap and easy to find. However I feel those lights kinda cheapen the car. Kinda like putting Chevy Chevette parts on a Corvette. Its just not right.
The gloss black Enterra was built by another local club member, Bob Mackie and he installed a 283ci V8 with a carb into it. (I am sorry I can't remember the exact specs, but it was under 300ci) He wanted a High Revving V8 for the car. They did one hell of a job, I was lucky enough to turn wrench's on that car for a bit helping with the V8 install. There is actually a really good back story on the V8 Kit and Archie with that one. The person that built the Black one ordered a V8 Archie Kit, however while he had the kit waiting to go onto the car, another local BC person got his hands on the kit and did a piece by piece copy of the kit, then tried to re-sell the copies. It ended in a near fist fight at a club meeting between Bob and the copier person. The person doing the copying, was kicked out of the club, Archie threatened to sue over it, and eventually over all the drama Bob sold the Enterra to a person in the states and left the club. He also designed the Enterra Vipre website and it was included in the sale. I won't mention the name of the business that tried to sell the copies, but I believe the Fiero community in general revolted and he is no longer in business.
Bob did a TON of research into building the Black V8 Enterra with restoring it and making it perfect. I always loved the center exit exhaust. I might still have contact info for Bob Mackie I believe he lives in Alberta now, if you want to contact him. He is no longer into Fiero's and plays with 240 and 280z's. However he still loves to talk about the Old Days. Because the Enterra were designed and built about 10 miles from where I live, I still see them pop up from time to time, and always forward the sale info onto the local club guys. Its a unique car with a unique and sorted heritage. Kinda reminds me of the Delorean story.
I am glad that you are restoring another one, and have a master doing the work. I don't think there is anything on the planet I wouldn't trust Archie to do. I've always said if I won the lottery I would get a train car, fill it with our 5 Fiero's and send them on their way to him along with $250,000 for mods. (I figure 50,000 a car should cover LS7 6spds, Chop top, Wide body Scissor Door cars.)------------------
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Lady Lisa
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DEC 09, 04:11 PM
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Thanks for all the feedback...gives a lot to think about.  I will definitely look into the colors suggested. To Capt. Fiero, thanks for the info and story. I also don't like the taillights but it is becoming difficult to find taillights that are flat enough and square enough to fit the area and contour of the car. Most modern taillights wrap around and follow the contour of the car, making it hard to find a replacement. Will keep you posted on new developments.
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Falcon Fiero
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DEC 09, 05:31 PM
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mkiker2089
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DEC 09, 08:41 PM
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I like the tails as they are. Normally I hate amber in tails but somehow it just works.
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2.5
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DEC 10, 10:59 AM
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Keeping it white, you should call it Ghost Shadow. ..or something.
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mptighe
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DEC 10, 06:58 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by 2.5:
Keeping it white, you should call it Ghost Shadow. ..or something. |
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I vote for Spectre
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85SEnochie
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DEC 10, 07:08 PM
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Patrick
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DEC 11, 02:04 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by 85SEnochie:
I photo shopped this back in 09 putting the Fiero lights back on it looks cool to me
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One word... no. 
Sorry, but that's definitely not an improvement over the Cavalier tail lights on this car.
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Lady Lisa
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DEC 11, 07:16 AM
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2.5
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DEC 11, 09:51 AM
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Could an 80s Trans am tailight be made to work?
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. Troy ordered a set a Cavalier lights and is going to have them sanded smooth and smokked to see what that looks like. As far as the color, I am leaning towards the Lamborghini balloon white.