Going this weekend to look at this car at a local ( to her, its 2 hours away for me ) junk lot for a friend that wants a fiero. want to make sure its not rusted away underneath or unsafe. ( and besides, when she gets tired of it in a few years it may end up in my driveway )

The dealer says its an 85, but its blue, which doesn't make sense to me.. And wouldn't a formula have dual exhaust and manual transmission? And since when does a V6 aato get 35mpg? Or is this just a repainted SE with a Formula sticker? ( i know its hard to tell in pictures.. ill know more when i go see it )

Supposedly it has about 50k miles on it, and she said it started and ran fine, but didn't take it out ( we will do that saturday when i go with her ). Figured even if fake it would be worth 1000 in cash to the guy ( he's got 1500 on the window ).

I would bet the ranch that that car is an 87 coupe with a 4 cylinder motor and a set of bogus formula stickers. If it's a factory blue Formula then we would have to re-write the history book.

Formula's did come with auto, so that doesn't tell you anything. Those are not the correct wheels for a Formula either. That single exhaust, (on the fascia) only came on the 87. The 88s had dual cutouts even on the 4 cylinder cars.

I just noticed that it also has the 4 cylinder gauge cluster, lacks the aux gauge cluster so I'm 99.999% sure that is an 87 coupe and NOT a Formula.

[This message has been edited by jscott1 (edited 06-19-2008).]

Not a real Formula odd are good it is not even a SE since it lacks many options.

Formulas were never offered in Blue in 1988.

The single pipe means it is a 2.5 4 cylinder.

By the looks of the interior it may have more than 50,000 miles.

Head lights need fixed

I figure it is a 4 cylinder 1987 with a Formula sticker.

If you can afford a little more there are some better looking cars out there if you can afford to take your time.

If it is solid and the engine runs I would try for under $1000. Unless you already have a lot of part saved up to fix this up .

Glad i wasn't going nuts.

Ya, i figured 1000 or less assuming its not rusty and runs ok.

I think ill take my GT with me when we go so when i tell him its not what he thinks it is ill look like i know what i'm talking about.

It's not a Formula.
The front offsets are all wrong. If a Formula (or any 88 for that matter) had the deeper dish mesh wheels on the front, like then ones in the pics, they would stick out probably another inch.
I'm guessing it's an 87 coupe as well. (If it's an 85, it's had the later fascias swapped on.)
Pop the (front) trunk and look at the knobs on the headlight motors.
If they're nearly two inches across and have two holes in the top, they're earlier (84-86) motors.
If they have smaller, tapered knobs, they belong to an 87 or 88.

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88 4.9 Formula IMSA Fasback..........................88 3.4 coupe -soon to be something other than red

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That blue doesn't look like the stock blue.

I'm trying to figure out the color on the rims. Are they dirty, or painted ?

looks like their poorly painted, or consistently dirty.

quote Originally posted by Macs86GT: looks like their poorly painted, or consistently dirty.

From the picture it looks like paint ,but spray painted wheels was the least of my concern. If its mechanically sound and they will go under 1grand it should be ok for her to get as a weekend driver.

It's got a FIERO 3rd brake light cutout though, that adds at least another 5-600$ value.

I added the' Formula' stickers to my doors, and added an 88 front fascia to my 86 coupe. Its not hard to clone one up. I have the auxliery gauges with the 120 MPH speedometer also. Mine came with the auxilery gauge package, or some one added it and all of the fixins to the car . I have removed the dash once, so they did it factory style if it was transplanted.
Joe Crawford
Texas

quote Originally posted by Hulki U. My-BFF: It's got a FIERO 3rd brake light cutout though, that adds at least another 5-600$ value.

Heh, i didn't even notice that

85 didn't have a 3rd brake light

Hmmm..

3rd Brake light means 86-88
Blue was only in 87
The bumpers mean its 87-88
4cyl means not formula

I dont see offset rims, so im going to go with a an 87 base coupe, looks like the only option is spoiler, unless thats a later addition

Kind of looks like it used to be White.