This fiberglass job is slapped over the top of a stretched Pontiac Fiero chassis, because of course it is, and it's on its way toward being a really cool machine, but I think I know how to make ...

Thus, in 1984, the plastic-bodied Pontiac Fiero, which means "very proud" in Italian and "fierce" in Spanish, was released for $7,999, and by the end of the year, nearly 137,000 were on the road.

Pontiac's early adoption of plastic body panels (attached to a spaceframe chassis acting as a roll cage) instead of metal ...

The chassis components all look beefy enough ... nothing could have prepared us for this 1984 Pontiac Fiero GT recently ...