Whereas Quicksilver is a reputation most generally related to Mercury, right now’s Good Value or No Cube Zimmer is definitely based mostly on a Pontiac—a Fiero to be precise. A Chevy motor makes it a household affair, however will its price ticket result in a simple new proprietor adoption?

Final Friday’s Costco-sized 1978 Ford Nation Squire generated some fond recollections for a number of of you and a few new-found lust amongst a quantity extra. A $9,500 asking worth sealed the deal for sufficient of you to let the 10-seat wagon come out victorious in a 52 % Good Value win.

As huge and ostentatious as Friday’s Ford was, right now’s contender goes a step additional and places type forward of each different attribute. A mix of mid engine sleekness and Motorama chrominess means this 1986 Zimmer Quicksilver embodies a juxtaposition of attributes that may be seen as both jarring or good.

Zimmer Motor Automobiles began out within the early ’80s making neo-classic coupes, sedans and limousines, many based mostly on Ford’s Fox-body Mustang mechanicals. The swan wing-fendered Golden Spirit was the primary of these.

Following up on that Ford-based ode to unwell proportioned retro-styling was not as you may count on the much more extravagant Golden Bathe, however the 180-degree flip that was the Quicksilver. Primarily based on the Pontiac Fiero, the Quicksilver clothed that automobile so fully that would have been serving within the witness safety program. The automobile was penned by Don Johnson (the GM designer, not Nash Bridges) and entered restricted manufacturing in 1987. That manufacturing prolonged to a complete of 170 automobiles, and of these reportedly solely three had been really sprayed in silver.

With an odometer studying simply 1,875 miles, that is pink over chrome version might be one of probably the most criminally underused Quicksilvers in the marketplace right now. Primarily based on the photographs within the advert, it definitely appears the half, and the vendor describes the automobile’s situation as “glorious.” After all, style being subjective, calling any Zimmer glorious is like saying your cat has the puckeriest butthole. Some could discover that laudable, whereas others will profess to be canine individuals.

As I famous, the Fiero underpinnings of the Quicksilver are so closely disguised it’s virtually unattainable to acknowledge the donor until you pop your head inside and catch a glimpse of the hip-to-be-square sprint.

We don’t get to see any of that on this automobile, however what’s behind the cabin is of extra curiosity anyway. There lies a 5.3-liter LS4 V8 late of some Chevy product. The vendor claims this to be one among solely 4 Quicksilvers so geared up, and the set up is claimed to have been professionally carried out. The transmission is an computerized, however the particulars are murky on simply what slusher it’s.

Aesthetically, the automobile appears to be in tip-top form too. And it’s as Buck Roger-baroque as you possibly can need. The Fiero, as you’ll recall was designed as a compact two-seat runabout with brief overhangs. Zimmer rectified that awkward styling attribute with lengthy overhangs capped in ’60s-style chrome bumpers at each ends and a bucktooth vertical bar grille on the entrance. This automobile’s chrome has a lot shine to it you’d be forgiven from muttering redrum below your breath each time coming near it.

There’s so much to love right here, particularly for somebody who marches to the beat of their very own asynchronous drum. Nonetheless, the query for such a person is whether or not it’s value $16,900 to let their freak flag fly.

What do you suppose, may this uncommon V8-imbued Quicksilver command that type of money? Or, does the weirdness outweigh the price?

You resolve!

Phoenix, Arizona, Craigslist, or go right here if the advert disappears.

H/T to Don R. for the hookup!

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