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bobsmith - 07 May 2005 05:22 GMT

Has anyone come up with a way to make a notchback into a fastback without
buying another fiero and destroying it?

With all the kits and mods I'm surprised that I haven't seen a kit for that
yet.

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John Craker - 07 May 2005 06:15 GMT

I guess because they're still plentiful enough (?!), being driven, and
crashed.

From my experience, most die in front end impacts (we have a large club
here, and most have died in the front - also most of the ones I see at the
wreckers here are front enders). Guess this leaves more intact rear clips
for us! Heck... the one on CSI... the rear clip survived!!!

What I'm waiting for is a clone of the FB tail lights. With used good sets
selling for a high of $500 on ebay... there's GOTTA be a market for them!

> Has anyone come up with a way to make a notchback into a fastback without
> buying another fiero and destroying it?
>
> With all the kits and mods I'm surprised that I haven't seen a kit for
> that
> yet.

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bobsmith - 07 May 2005 20:30 GMT

> I guess because they're still plentiful enough (?!), being driven, and
> crashed.
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>> for that
>> yet.

I know it doesn't make sense but I can't use a donor car. for some reason
everytime I start to I imagine someones dream that no longer exists
because I've gutted out what could have been fixed up. Logically once a
car hits the junkyard it's either donor car or rust, but still I'm uneasy
about it. fiero's were once plentiful and now they are becoming rare, we
need to preserve them.

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Mr Potatohead - 08 May 2005 04:02 GMT

> I know it doesn't make sense but I can't use a donor car. for some reason
> everytime I start to I imagine someones dream that no longer exists
> because I've gutted out what could have been fixed up. Logically once a
> car hits the junkyard it's either donor car or rust, but still I'm uneasy
> about it. fiero's were once plentiful and now they are becoming rare, we
> need to preserve them.

I have most of what you would need to convert to a fastback. It's not on
a car, it's in my back yard shed. Missing, as I remember, are the
taillights and sidewindows. Extreme northeast coast, if that's anywhere
near where you are.

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ThaDriver - 06 Jun 2005 07:13 GMT

Theres a reason no one makes an aftermarket fastback kit. First you would
have to buy the fiberglass peices, them make molds from them (& the trunk
would have to be two molds). Would cost you about 5 grand if you're lucky.
Then you still wouldn't have all the other peices like taillights, trim,
side windows, trunk squared peices, etc. How much do you think you could
sell the 'glass peices for without all that, & how many would you have to
sell to break even?
Figure on your cost to *make* the peices (not including the cost of the
molds) to be around $500 minimum (probably much more), plus $250+ for
shipping such large peices.
~ Paul
aka "Tha Driver"

America - made in China! :-(

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