Fiero-based Zimmer Quicksilver was objectively terrible, but we’d totally drive it

Now this is a thing you don’t see everyday. It truly is shown in our classified adverts as a 1986 Pontiac Fiero, but as you can see, that description is a bit misleading. In fact, it truly is a Zimmer Quicksilver, which was in fact crafted atop the guts of a mid-engine Fiero coupe but was greatly modified by the Zimmer Motorcars Company at a facility in Pompano Seashore, Florida. And the 1 you see here really appears to be to be a rather respectable offer for a extremely abnormal car or truck.

We are not certain what was a much more preferred starting off point for kit and custom made vehicles in the 1980s and 1990s, but it would have to be either the Fiero or the vintage air-cooled Volkswagen Beetle. Fiero-centered devices generally mimicked the layout path of any amount of really appealing Italian stallions, most generally, we’d guess, the Lamborghini Countach. The Quicksilver is an altogether distinctive animal, with above a foot of additional wheelbase additional in entrance of the A-pillar to make for a dramatic, long and very low silhouette that by some means nevertheless only has hardly ample place for two passengers in its leather- and wood-lined inside.

A stock 2.8-liter V6 motor from Standard Motors is mated to a a few-pace computerized transmission that sends 140 horsepower and 170 pound-feet of torque to the rear wheels. Time period highway checks discovered the -60 operate took a little about 10 seconds, which is horrible right now but wasn’t all that terrible for the mid ’80s. Ideal we can inform, only all over 170 Quicksilvers were being made in between 1984 and 1988, which are, not coincidentally, the identical yrs that Pontiac generated the Fiero.

The 1986 Zimmer Quicksilver you see below is priced at $18,495 and displays effectively beneath 30,000 miles on the odometer. There are not a ton of Zimmer Quicksilvers at this time for sale for us to compare, but the kinds we did discover that experienced bought within just the final couple several years advise a small beneath $20,000 is a affordable asking cost. It could be a fun and offbeat addition to the garage, and if practically nothing else, you might be not probable to see another one at your neighborhood car exhibit.

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