My opinion is to leave the color alone, finish installing the side panels and hood, and look for some new wheels. Cleaning it up a bit will make all the difference.
This thing is sIQ.
I kind of want to paint/Plastidip/wrap the car some plain solid color like black or white or some type of gray and get these in 18x8. Yea.
Do like a flat battleship grey, instead of sail panel windows just rivet some metal in. Those wheels would be sweet
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That’s a really fucking good idea. Like a medium-dark flat battleship gray and sheet metal sail panels. Should look similar to this with the bronze wheels.
Oh, and I got.my tach back. Dash looks foiiiine at night. Love it.
Plans to update the goat shit brown interior?
Not really. At least, no plans in the immediate future. I sort of like the interior because it’s definitely 80’s GM at their worst [best?]. Plus, I reupholstered those seats in matching leather a number of years ago and they’re ridiculously comfortable. I don’t want to get rid of those seats until I need harnesses. Then I suppose I would consider a color change. I like the actual dash setup and layout though, so then I’m talking about dying the entire dash black or something and that just sounds like a gigantic pain in the dick. Unless I can find another dash/center console from another ride that would go in nicely and I didn’t hate…
:tup: do it!
I’m partial to black interiors, so my opinion is that you should Flock the dash, install some buckets with harnesses, and dye whatever else black.
Opinions are like assholes, though. Mine very well may stink.
Here’s a fucking bootleg-ass concept of what I’m thinking about. Photoshop is not my forte. Basically, a flat medium-dark gray [darker than this, I’m thinking] and retain the black belt molding. For the sail panels, I’ll cut windowed sheets of aluminum or thin steel, shape them and wrap them in convertible top vinyl. Then, the A-Pillars and sunroof halo get red houndstooth with body color background vinyl. And of course the bronze wheels. Thoughts?
That flat gray I feel is going to almost look like a car with just primer on it.
Fair point. Maybe a satin? I don’t know if I want full gloss…
Saw this yesterday on transit as you pulled out of Chilli’s/Home Depot and passed by the shop. Sounds great. On the paint topic, I do not like flat, matte, or satin paints on most cars. It just looks lazy or unfinished to me. It usually works on high end brand new cars, but on an older car it looks like it’s still in primer, or that someone plastidipped their car. I think any paint job worth doing should look like a mirror when you are done.
Occasionally there is something interesting over on Stanceworks, this one guy’s trying to “Rocket Bunny” a Fiero, and it’s so outlandish with the wheels and flares on page 4 that it actually looks somewhat good. You might be able to pull off a similar look since you have the power to back it up. Agree that a mirror finish, dark color would suit this best
Leave it gold. Do you really want to strip this to a rolling shell to do it right? Put a set of wheels on it and go tear shit up. Don’t do any body mods, don’t do anything that would give a visual hint of anything being done to the car. Maybe I’m old, or maybe I’m old and lazy, but I think it looks best in a factory color.
Norb O-You should be banned for posting that link. That car sucks and so does everyone on that site.
I saw that “Rocket Bunny” thing posted on Pennock’s Fiero Forum. It’s bad. Like; there’s nothing redeeming there. At all. People are still trying to humor him and tell him it’s ‘different’ and ‘cool’. I do not know why. Basically, any time I see a tire stretched onto a wheel it clearly has no business being installed on, I automatically hate it and the car. There’s nothing I can do about it. I mean; what the fuck even is this? Plus, look at those headlights. They’re just short LED bars. He admittedly blinds everybody on the road and gives no fucks about it. What a tool.
I was planning on 18x8" wheels at 35-40mm offset with 235 or 245 rubber all the way around. I have no reason to believe I need any more tire for this car. Factory wheels are 15x7 et30 and wore a 205/65r15 tire. At the power level I’m at [~300HP], I believe even decent 205s would stick pretty well. With eventual turbo, 235-245 in either Eagle F1 or Hankook RS3 would be wonderful, I reckon. Anyway, I need to do wheels and brakes at the same time as I’ll be doing a 5x4.75 hub swap then as well. I already have the parts for the front, which are Corvair hubs on factory Fiero spindles with Camaro [I think?] bearings. For the rear, I need 6000SE knuckles machined slightly larger to fit front S-10 wheel bearings and then I put the S-10 outer CV stub onto the factory Fiero axles on both sides. Not even $300 with new parts. And I get a larger outer spline on the axles. Win-win. Then it’s off-the-shelf C5/C6 brake parts with some custom brackets and some off-the-shelf 5x120 BMW wheels for the correct 35-40mm offset. I can cut any centering rings I need on the lathe. I think that’s a job for this winter.
I don’t see any reason why I couldn’t do a decent paint job. I need to repair some cracks in the fiberglass anyway and there’s some damage to both urethane bumpers that I’m not quite sure how to fix yet, though. We’ll see what happens. Maybe I’ll do something this winter. That shop has pretty good heat and insulation.
This is really nice. Also claims it’s a vinyl wrap. I wonder how much that would cost versus paint? If it looks this good…
Holy shit that car sucks.
I haven’t the slightest idea why people would encourage that type of behavior. The Fiero already has a relatively negative stigma attached to it. He’s not helping.
Gave her a bath and scrubbed the shit out of the wheels. Looks like a completely different car.
Wheels came out looking almost brand new!
Got those missing pieces of belt molding back on. Looks much better.
Gonna head up to One Eyed Jacks with the lady in a few hours for some 'cue. Nice little Saturday.
Here is a shot of my 86 gt