Anyone see the episode of monster garage today? They used an 86 Bird with a ferrari body kit on it as the base for the santa float. Anyone ever seen one of these ferrari body kits on a 3rd gen before? Looked like it fit on the car pretty well. Ah well, by the time the show was over another 3rdgen was pretty much dead.

 

that car was dead before they started 6 cyl with a crap body on it.

 

It is on right now 12:00 AM Est. and I am currently watching it on Discovery Channel

 

yeah but does any else think it's messed up that they go and get this firebird kit ferrari, then strip it down to nothing!!! What's the point of getting the ferrari fiberglassed car if they're just gonna strip it down to the chassis?

oh well....

 

at the end they show the cost of project and it showed purchse of car for like 1500

 

quite honestly, i think that it was a good way for an f-body gone bad to die.

 

purchase price was $2000 for the car and plus the thing died on the way into the garage.

 

it was in good hands at least

 

Didn't you guys even look? The car is a Fiero. The dash and mid engine setup gave it away.

 

Im hoping by " ", you are being sarcastic. But just in case...its a firebird not a fiero...the made a reversed steering rack and drove the car in reverse. And I thought it wasn't a bad replica as far as crappy ferrari knockoffs go...at least it wasn't an LB9 or L98 that they mutliated. Nothing wrong w/ putting a six cylinder under the torch every once and a while for viewer ratings. I thought it was a good episode.

 

Purchase price was 3k it was a 2.8 firebird the motor was in the front and exactly wha tthe last guy said form there

 

Strange, never saw a Fiero that had an engine in the front, the rear end of an F-body, the engine compartment of an F-body the body of an F-body! They even called it a Firebird

 

LMAO, obviously somebody caught the last 10 min of the show and assumed since they changed the steering around it was a Feiro. WOW maybe he is suffering from ADD

IMO that car was gone before they started on it, very ugly and again another reason to not build a kit car-looked cheesy and flimsy-did anyone pay attention to the "new" rear deck when they ripped it off. That thing was a joke

 

anyone got pics of this Ferrari body kit?

 

It was definitely a mercy killing. I don't know any thridgen owners that would do such a thing to their car.

 

Good. My cars values just went up.

Kat

 

What a terrible way for the car to die? WTF?

The thing had a Ferrari body kit on it AND had a 2.8..who the **** cares...the owner that did it should've had the same fate lol

 

ya i seen it, man the body was mint and same with the interior! i just kept thinking i wish i could be there to keep all the stuff they rip off!!!!, also the tire were ok. i think they really go out of there way to get nice cars just to **** people off when they rip em apart.

 

You know what the ironic thing is? About 3 weeks ago I saw the episode where they took the 78 Stingray Vette 454 and chopped it up into a monster truck. I mean no joke, they showed some dumb grease monkey taking out the perfect dash with a hammar. It pissed me off so much that I wrote a letter to the discovery channel asking them nicely to please not kill nice cars on that show and I said if they ever did any 82-92 F-bod I would cancel my cable. Well I never heard back from them but 2wks later, surprise! An 86 Firebird rolled into the shop to die.

To hell with that show, it was weak to begin with and now its just plain stupid. Jesse James needs to focus on building more badass bikes, they must be paying him an ***-load to stay on that damn show. Even he hates it...


(and no i didnt cancel my cable )

 

I'll add to this...

well the firebird "or what was a firebird to begin with" saw a new life... a lot of TV shows with f-bodys don't...
iv seen my fair share over the years of crashed and dismembered f-bodys....
a few months ago i was watch'n the history channel...
they where trying to chop a car in half ... and they had to pick a ??????

 

Hey i bet the reason why they picked an FBODY was it is a cheap unibody car. I bet their little stunt wouldnt have worked on a full frame car, so they used a camaro...

 

yeah but they could have used a jetta, civic or chevette

 

there used to be a white 3rd gen in town that had that ferrari kit on it. i never saw it run, just always sitting next to this guys house.

 

Like This???

 

Whoa...

 

Well I hardly ever watch the show, but on Fear Factor they are constantly using f-body's for their car stunts, or so I've seen from the few shows I watched. Like the second gen where they jumped through a wall and flipped it, or the third gens where they swerved between a semi.
Well good news is.... all these trashed f-body's make ours worth more

and does anyone know why they pick them? I guess they are cheap enough, and rear wheel drive, v8 power.... I dunno if us f-body enthusiasts should take it as a compliment or not as far as all these shows/movies ripping them up?

and when you say unibody, I thought most cars are unibody's, with the chevelle for instance being one of the few exceptions...