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Old Sep 15, 2012 | 08:06 PM
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Old Sep 16, 2012 | 10:50 PM
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Re: Bought a notchback, what exactly is it?

Originally Posted by bradley23150
I'm getting more love than hate on this notchback, which I honestly didn't expect....
So you know that it looks like **** but you're just hoping someone would convince you that it didn't?!?!?! Seriously slim, if you want a Fiero, buy one; don't **** it up for everyone else who has a passion for these cars. BTW, this has got to be one of the first pictures I've EVER seen posted of a Third Gen where the car would have looked BETTER sitting in a trailer park....just saying.

Ggggeeeeezzzzz.
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Old Sep 16, 2012 | 11:05 PM
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Re: Bought a notchback, what exactly is it?

Thats a Carrera, i posted a pic, #26
Originally Posted by ronusmc
OK, I found a photo of a notch back with a wing and it kind of fills in the bare spot on the back deck.
Hey, whos fb across the street? They on the forum?
Originally Posted by bradley23150

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Ive yet to ever see one of these in person.

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Old Sep 17, 2012 | 06:08 AM
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Re: Bought a notchback, what exactly is it?

Originally Posted by bradley23150
I put it on my car already. They're phone pics but they're better than nothing:
So... Are those cows off in the right? I don't have cows but I do have horses, and if I left them alone in the yard like that they'd be wandering the neighbors property within minutes.

I think a horse coined the term "Grass is greener on the other side"...

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Old Sep 17, 2012 | 10:48 AM
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Re: Bought a notchback, what exactly is it?

Originally Posted by 96BlownSSragtop
So you know that it looks like **** but you're just hoping someone would convince you that it didn't?!?!?! Seriously slim, if you want a Fiero, buy one; don't **** it up for everyone else who has a passion for these cars. BTW, this has got to be one of the first pictures I've EVER seen posted of a Third Gen where the car would have looked BETTER sitting in a trailer park....just saying.

Ggggeeeeezzzzz.
You're going to give him a hard time when you're sporting nostrils on the hood of yours?

OP; If you like it, then thats all that counts. F*** em if they can't take a joke.
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Old Sep 17, 2012 | 10:50 AM
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Re: Bought a notchback, what exactly is it?

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You're going to give him a hard time when you're sporting nostrils on the hood of yours?
No offense to 96blownss, but I was kinda thinking the same thing. Fugly hatch, fugly hood.. But to each their own.

I have a fugly hood too, just not as fugly as the RA-II..

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Old Sep 17, 2012 | 05:20 PM
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Re: Bought a notchback, what exactly is it?

Originally Posted by 96BlownSSragtop
So you know that it looks like **** but you're just hoping someone would convince you that it didn't?!?!?! Seriously slim, if you want a Fiero, buy one; don't **** it up for everyone else who has a passion for these cars. BTW, this has got to be one of the first pictures I've EVER seen posted of a Third Gen where the car would have looked BETTER sitting in a trailer park....just saying.

Ggggeeeeezzzzz.
Nothing that you typed in this post has any truth in it whatsoever.. I'm not trying to make my car look like anything else, like I have said before. I am in NO way ****ing it up for everyone else that has a passion for these cars' I don't even see how that makes any sense at all.. I am very passionate about third gens, and that should be obvious. I respect the right for people to modify their cars in any way that they choose to, whether I agree with it or not. I don't see how my car looks like it belongs in a trailer park just because it has an aftermarket hatch on it, that takes 10 minutes to remove and re-install the hatch glass. I put it on there to see of I would like it, and I actually do. I am not seeking approval from anyone on whether or not I should keep it.


Unfortunately everyone is entitled to their opinions. Even overly-opinionated ***-clowns such as yourself.

Originally Posted by anesthes
So... Are those cows off in the right? I don't have cows but I do have horses, and if I left them alone in the yard like that they'd be wandering the neighbors property within minutes.

I think a horse coined the term "Grass is greener on the other side"...

-- Joe
Yeah it's a cow. I think theres 3 or 4 of them over there and the yard sure shows it.

I guess when I get an RA-2 hood, I will get even more love.
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Old Sep 17, 2012 | 11:11 PM
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Re: Bought a notchback, what exactly is it?

Originally Posted by bradley23150
I guess when I get an RA-2 hood, I will get even more love.
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Old Sep 19, 2012 | 02:32 AM
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Re: Bought a notchback, what exactly is it?

Originally Posted by anesthes
No offense to 96blownss, but I was kinda thinking the same thing. Fugly hatch, fugly hood.. But to each their own.

I have a fugly hood too, just not as fugly as the RA-II..

-- Joe
No offense taken, but I'll admit that I also think it's a phucking ugly hood. It was also one of the first ones sold buy the guy that originally started these, it took a TON work to get it to look "OK" and that it why the original 'bump' hood is back on the car. WTF is with a fiberglass hood that weights more than the stock steel hood..........
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Old Dec 3, 2012 | 03:45 AM
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Re: Bought a notchback, what exactly is it?

Any updates...
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Old Jun 10, 2023 | 02:22 PM
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Re: Bought a notchback, what exactly is it?

Originally Posted by bradley23150
Picked this hatch up tonight because the price was right, and I always like this style of notch. I have been researching it and cannot find very much information on this specific design, or who manufactured it:

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The lack of information that I can find on this style would suggest it may be on the rare side of notch's.

Any and all info is appreciated!
that MAY be the hatch off a Pontiac Tojan. 85-91, take a look there, might help. If you decide to part with it, let me know on fb- looking for one.
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