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(@pete-rovero)
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After seeing John's and Rich's pictures of their Automodello Fieros, I had to get one.  I've been eyeing them on e-Bay for a while, and my Bright Yellow one finally hit the porch last Tuesday.  I'd sure love to pop open those headlights, open the doors, hood, engine cover, and trunk but this is a curbside model.  Well, at least the top is removable!

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That sure is Purdy Pete. Automodello's models are gorgeous, just more than I can afford. 😞 



   
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Geoff Jowett
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great pics Pete. Just not a car or model that really interests me. And you wont hear me say that very often!



   
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True the model is a curbside without opening features but what you see is extreme detail and excellent proportions. I have the red version and it certainly displays well.



   
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That looks like a very nice model.  I am just not sure, I want to buy a model in another scale.


Ed Davis
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John Merritt
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They are great models; I do like the yellow one. I considered it but went with the red instead.


John Merritt
South Lyon, Michigan - USA


   
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(@pete-rovero)
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@jcarnutz 

I was going to go red, but I liked the gold wheels because they show off the wheel pattern better than the black wheels.  Hmmm...now that I think about it, I still might get the red....



   
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Pontiac Fiero played a huge role in inspiring my interest in automotive design. Back in 1987, when I was 16, and the iron curtain was slowly lifting, there was an exhibition in my hometown in Bulgaria showing American industrial design. And the Fiero was the only car there ... you can imagine I was absorbing the beauty of that red "out of this world" automobile seeing something like this in person for first time. A year later I was in Eastern Berlin, before the fall of the Berlin wall, and there was she again, a beautiful Fiero parked on Under the Linden boulevard just meters from the Brandenburg gate, which at the time was guarded by Soviet soldiers. I only remember the Fiero, not sure how many Trabants and Wartburgs were parked around it (I know Jack is going to ask me), unfortunately in both instances I did not remember the year of the model. At that time, it did not cross my mind that a model design can change every year....

Still considering buying this one, I have a beautiful memory about these 2 red Fiero's, however don't really feel a need to have it represented in my collection, especially knowing that I likely saw an earlier model 1984-1986 perhaps ...

PS: These are the lines I recall in my memory, so the 1988 model just doesn't do it for me.

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Greg
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@chav  Wow..



   
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(@bob-jackman)
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Chav that is some experience you have had with the Fiero. You are far more discerning than I am. Your memory of the car would want me to have the model even more.



   
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Rich Sufficool
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My wife grew up in Communist Poland, with shoe box Ladas and licensed re-badged Fiats. Her mother waited 3 years to score a Czech Skoda. She had no appreciation for auto design at all. Of the 9 zillion car models I have, the only model she ever said she liked was the 1948 Saoutchik Cadillac.



   
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