By Dan Strohl

Hemmings

Well, I never in my life thought I’d be selecting a Pontiac Sunfire for the Hemmings Find of the Day, especially one that looks like it crashed through a Pep Boys on the way to a screening of “The Fast and the Furious,” but hey, it’s Friday, and I’ll play along with the seller’s assertion that GM built this 1997 Pontiac Sunfire as a concept vehicle, even though the only Pontiac Piranha concept vehicle I’ve ever seen mention of looked substantially different than this. From the seller’s description:

This vehicle is one of two GM built concept vehicles. The Piranha features an L850 2.2 Liter supercharged L4 engine that cranks out 212hp and 204lb/ft of torque. The supercharger is a polished GM Performance belt drive unit used for high performance and low maintenance. A 4-speed automatic transmission was used with a steering wheel mounted Tiptonic system. All four corners have independent suspension.

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By Steve Neill

Steve Neill

I saw this at a drift show I’m about to cover for CarDomain, and I just had to get a picture. Comment away to this… Is this modding TOO far? And for those wondering, this was once a Pontiac Sunfire.

Bobby Regester was running this 2004 Pontiac Sunfire in the Stock Car class, and I was completely floored by how bad ass it was. I mean, talk about presence! Do you think the fender flares are big enough? I looked for him a couple of times, and I probably should have just left my card under the windshield wiper. But there wasn’t a windshield wiper, and anyway, would you want to touch this thing without permission? That seems like a good way to lose a hand. Three more pics after the jump. 

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