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Hey guys, I know we've got a long winter ahead of us, but I just bought my first Festiva in half a decade, and I can't sleep. I haven't been to a Festiva meet since I moved out west, and it looks like there aren't a lot of meets happening in our part of the country. I thought I'd start a thread to see how much interest there'd be in a Northwest meetup, maybe somewhere between Spokane, WA and Missoula, MT, or maybe somewhere in Oregon or Idaho in the spring. I know there's a greater concentration of Festivas (and people in general) back east, but I would be beyond pumped if we could get a meet with for or five cars together. What do you folks think?
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Axlander9289, brother of ThisVelologist
Festivas past:
Aqua '92 Festiva L - Sold "Dale"
White '89 Festiva L Plus - RIP "Dudley"
White '93 Festiva GL - Sold to thisvelologist "Frito"
Red '91 Festiva L - Sold to Louieisawesome "Geraldo"
Current Fleet:
Aqua '93 Festiva L with Aspire brakes "Dale Jr."
Black and White '93 Festiva GL Sport (White alloys and spoiler are long gone) "Blues-tiva"
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Westiva is relatively close to you, at least compared to Madness. Next year's edition of Westiva will be on July 11th. Bolokid made the trip up this year from Pasco WA.
That being said I would love to come down to a meet anywhere in the area you suggested. All it takes is for someone to set a time and location. When I did the first Westiva back in 2008 there were four Festivas, two from Calgary (monkyracing and me) one from the Vancouver BC area (leapin) and another from Worland WY (gottafesty).
To paraphrase a famous movie line.... If you plan it, they will come
Last edited by fastivaca; 11-04-2014, 10:25 AM.Ian
Calgary AB, Canada
93 L B6T: June 2016 FOTM
59 Austin Healey "Bugeye" Sprite
"It's infinitely better to fail with courage than to sit idle with fear...." Chip Gaines (pg 167 of Capital Gaines, Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff)
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I didn't realize there was a plan for Westiva '15. It sounds like a good excuse for me to explore Western Canada. I haven't been west of Windsor, Ontario north of the border.Axlander9289, brother of ThisVelologist
Festivas past:
Aqua '92 Festiva L - Sold "Dale"
White '89 Festiva L Plus - RIP "Dudley"
White '93 Festiva GL - Sold to thisvelologist "Frito"
Red '91 Festiva L - Sold to Louieisawesome "Geraldo"
Current Fleet:
Aqua '93 Festiva L with Aspire brakes "Dale Jr."
Black and White '93 Festiva GL Sport (White alloys and spoiler are long gone) "Blues-tiva"
White '15 Ford Transit ConnectComment
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Billings to Wedge Pond, Kananaskis (the Westiva venue) is about 600 miles.
Ian
Calgary AB, Canada
93 L B6T: June 2016 FOTM
59 Austin Healey "Bugeye" Sprite
"It's infinitely better to fail with courage than to sit idle with fear...." Chip Gaines (pg 167 of Capital Gaines, Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff)
Link to the "Road Trip Starting Points" page of my Econobox Café blogComment
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Alex,Originally posted by fastivaca View PostBillings to Wedge Pond, Kananaskis (the Westiva venue) is about 600 miles.
I think I would still have you beat as far as distance driven, LOL. My son and I are planning on making the trip to Westiva again in July, hopefully bringing the orange Festiva with us this year.
A meet as you suggested would certainly be a great time. I am sure there are many more but Old Yellow and his dad are in the Seattle area and Mark is in Portland. I'll provide the burgers/pop/chips for a BBQ.
Think about it.Comment
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I'd love to go if only it was in Oregon, Nevada or Washington State... definitely don't feel like putting over 100 miles on the yellow base model festiva.... it has about 51000 and would like to keep it close to that, but my i'd drive the 40 over 1.3L GL but it's auto and I don't think my right foot would like the drive with so much pedal vibration, it almost makes my foot fall asleep when I drive to Granite Falls from my house in Kingston about once a monthDoug's Daily Driver (Dad): '91 Ford Festiva L Manual "Old Yellow" got with 40,xxx mi... about 52,xxx mi. give or take now
Austin's Daily Driver (mine) : '91 Ford Festiva GL Automatic "Whitie III" W/ 0.40 over aspire engine from '94 Aspire "New Blue" rebuilt 92,xxx mi. then... about 96,xxx mi. or more now (on body)
Doug's work car: '95 Ford Aspire Manual "Whitie II" w/ swapped stock aspire engine from '95 Silver Aspire and has it's 5th transmission! 75,xxx mi... now with about 130,xxx mi.
Sold! '89 Ford Festiva Manual "Gaystiva" (sold to my Uncle) - got with 163,xxx..... now 163,xxx Sold!
TRANSFERRED! '89 Ford Festiva Automatic EFI "one hit wonder" Given to bolokid - got with 210,xxx ...... now with 210,xxx miles TRANSFERRED!
'94 Ford Aspire SE Manual "Assfire" - got with at least 350,000 mi
SOLD! '90 Ford Festiva L Manual look for Narion (or click the username) it's new owner on the forum! - got with 193,xxx miles... now has 193,xxx miles give or take SOLD!
R.I.P '91 Ford Escort GT w/ bad engine..... stripping for parts then off to the scrapper!
R.I.P '91 Ford Festiva Manual "Lil Red Rocket" bought brand new in 1991 with ~120 mi... ended with 227,xxx mi.
R.I.P '97 Ford Aspire 4 Door Automatic "Ford Metro" parts car - got with about 144,xxx mi.... ended with 144,xxx mi
R.I.P '95 Ford Aspire Manual Silver (one owner and one family car) got with about 50,000 miles ended with about 90,000 miles
R.I.P '94 Ford Aspire Manual "New Blue" got with 150,xxx.... ended with about 200,xxx (it's engine is the .40 engine in my GL)
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Oh cool, this Westiva sounds like fun! I'm right accross from victoria canada in PA washington. 1990 'blueberry' festiva
Just got new 12's, 360$1990 L 5-speed blue Festy
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Welcome!! Its starting to look like Washington is growing faster than Oregon !Reflex paint by Langeman...Lifted...Tow Rig
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all of us in Washington need to join in on a 4th of July parade! that would be great!Doug's Daily Driver (Dad): '91 Ford Festiva L Manual "Old Yellow" got with 40,xxx mi... about 52,xxx mi. give or take now
Austin's Daily Driver (mine) : '91 Ford Festiva GL Automatic "Whitie III" W/ 0.40 over aspire engine from '94 Aspire "New Blue" rebuilt 92,xxx mi. then... about 96,xxx mi. or more now (on body)
Doug's work car: '95 Ford Aspire Manual "Whitie II" w/ swapped stock aspire engine from '95 Silver Aspire and has it's 5th transmission! 75,xxx mi... now with about 130,xxx mi.
Sold! '89 Ford Festiva Manual "Gaystiva" (sold to my Uncle) - got with 163,xxx..... now 163,xxx Sold!
TRANSFERRED! '89 Ford Festiva Automatic EFI "one hit wonder" Given to bolokid - got with 210,xxx ...... now with 210,xxx miles TRANSFERRED!
'94 Ford Aspire SE Manual "Assfire" - got with at least 350,000 mi
SOLD! '90 Ford Festiva L Manual look for Narion (or click the username) it's new owner on the forum! - got with 193,xxx miles... now has 193,xxx miles give or take SOLD!
R.I.P '91 Ford Escort GT w/ bad engine..... stripping for parts then off to the scrapper!
R.I.P '91 Ford Festiva Manual "Lil Red Rocket" bought brand new in 1991 with ~120 mi... ended with 227,xxx mi.
R.I.P '97 Ford Aspire 4 Door Automatic "Ford Metro" parts car - got with about 144,xxx mi.... ended with 144,xxx mi
R.I.P '95 Ford Aspire Manual Silver (one owner and one family car) got with about 50,000 miles ended with about 90,000 miles
R.I.P '94 Ford Aspire Manual "New Blue" got with 150,xxx.... ended with about 200,xxx (it's engine is the .40 engine in my GL)
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It's ONLY 11 hours and 705 miles Port Angeles to Wedge Pond!!!Originally posted by fliermike_12 View Post
Ian
Calgary AB, Canada
93 L B6T: June 2016 FOTM
59 Austin Healey "Bugeye" Sprite
"It's infinitely better to fail with courage than to sit idle with fear...." Chip Gaines (pg 167 of Capital Gaines, Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff)
Link to the "Road Trip Starting Points" page of my Econobox Café blogComment
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