This 1986 Zimmer Quicksilver started life as an ordinary Pontiac Fiero GT before the factory cut it apart and stretched it into a neoclassic luxury coupe. Buyers paid nearly four times the Fiero’s price for the transformation, and only 170 were ever built. See what a former GM designer did with 29 inches of added sheet metal and a 140-horsepower V6.
1986 Zimmer Quick Silver 2.8L V6 FI Automatic
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Underneath that dramatic chrome grille and those pop-up headlights sits a drivetrain that Pontiac Fiero owners would recognize instantly, which was exactly the point. Zimmer Motorcars took an affordable mid-engine economy car, cut it apart, and rebuilt it into something that cost nearly four times as much when it launched in the summer of 1986. Only a small number of buyers ever went along with the swap. The company behind it had already built a reputation for turning ordinary GM platforms into something wildly different, but this model pushed that formula further than anything before it. What was actually happening to that donor car during the transformation?
Built From a Cut-Apart Fiero
Zimmer Motorcar Company, founded in New York in 1978, had already made its name building neoclassic personal luxury cars before the Quicksilver arrived in 1986 as a dramatically different follow-up to its earlier Golden Spirit model. Each Quicksilver began life as a Pontiac Fiero GT, which Zimmer’s factory dismantled and structurally modified by adding a 13-inch section behind the rear wheels and another 16 inches just ahead of the front suspension, reshaping the compact two-seater into a longer, lower personal luxury coupe designed by former GM stylist Don “D.A.” Johnson.
A Steep Price for a Rare Shape
Underneath the dramatically reworked bodywork, the Quicksilver kept its donor car’s mechanical heart: a 2.8-liter V6 producing 140 horsepower, paired with an automatic transmission, air conditioning, cruise control, and wire wheels as standard equipment, wrapped in a leather-and-wood interior with a few Cadillac-sourced trim pieces added for flair. Only 170 Quicksilvers were built across the model’s full 1984-1988 run, and this one carried a $48,000 sticker price in 1986 — nearly four times the roughly $13,000 asking price of the Fiero it was built from.
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