The Fiero Blog

In my quest to make the world’s lamest Fiero blog, I have stopped by simply to say that it is raining on my Fiero.

So I was checking out all these Fiero sites - that’s my new hobby - and I came across ‘10 Rules For Safe Lifting‘, at a place called ‘The Ogre’s Fiero Cave‘. There are some general tips to live by (If it doesn’t look safe, it probably isn’t. When it does look safe, check it again.) and some more specific guidelines (When stacking wood blocks, alternate the grain direction.) One final point on safety: check for rust on an intended jack point by hitting that spot with a hammer. This tests whether the area is getting weak or rusted/rotted on the other side. (Fieros are about 20 years old now …)

I found it all very interesting, but since I wouldn’t have any idea what to do underneath a Fiero, there is no reason for me to lift mine.

I was checking out the threads over at PFF, and found this one, which gives some great shots of a restoration job on an ‘84 2M4. My (85 GT) doesn’t look nearly that bad.

(The flip side of that coin is that I don’t even come close to the skills & resources of the person who is restoring that car. But, details.)

Here’s mine -

So this guy at PFF is totally giving me hope!!!

The folks at the Michigan Fiero Club have been really helpful to me. If you’re in Michigan and you have an interest in the Fiero, I recommend checking them out.

They have breakfast meetings on the 3rd Saturday of each month (check this calendar for locations) and their official meetings are on the last Monday of the month, at 7pm, in Plymouth.

And they have the 25th Anniversary event coming up … check out the video here.

So I’m just getting to know the Fiero, and learning what I can about them. I see on the Fiero Wiki page that the Fiero was only produced from 1984 to 1988.

My model is a 1985 GT … according to the VIN, it is #34,024 (of 76,371) produced in 1985. I was shocked to see that fewer than 371,000 of these cars were produced. (And I’m totally geeked that I have one of them … )

So why was the Fiero axed after only 4 years? It had some problems in it’s first year … but I hear that about all cars, and I understand that the problems were addressed by the 2nd year. There was a 1990 prototype, but it was never built.

Courtesy of the Michigan Fiero Club: