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Chantay Osborne and her husband Phil Jensen were at a junkyard in Utah looking for a parts car for their 1985 Pontiac Fiero GT. What they discovered, and subsequently purchased for the low price of $400, was a vehicle with a mysterious, but fascinating history—one that I became a bit obsessed with. So get ready to descend into the deep rabbit hole of GM history.Utah-based Jalopnik readers Chantay Osborne and Phil Jensen are true car enthusiasts. Between the two of them is a car collection consisting of a 1967 Pontiac Firebird, 1971 Oldsmobile Cutlass, 1974 VW Super Beetle, 1993 Jeep Cherokee, 1995 Mazda Miata M-Edition, 2003 Pontiac Vibe GT, and 1985 Pontiac Fiero GT. (Plus some “newer more boring stuff.”)The last car on that list, a beautiful yellow 1985 Fiero GT (shown below), is in need of some replacement components, so Chantay and her husband went out to a junkyard in late April with hopes to buy a parts car. They ended up finding an interesting one.Illustration for article titled This $400 Junkyard Pontiac Fiero Was Once Used At GMs Desert Proving Ground And Im Obsessed“We were planning on getting a donor Fiero so we could drop the cradle out of my 85 GT and replace it with a cradle rebuilt with a shiny new engine and transmission,” Chantay told me via email. “We snagged a totally complete 1986 SE out of a junkyard for $400, but once we got it home we noticed the tag on the keys was from the GM Desert Proving Ground in Mesa, and on the back was a description of the car.”
