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Name: Evan Meneilley.
Location: Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Year, Make & Model of car: 1993 GL Sport, April in the Festiva Calendar.
Age: 16.
History of Car:
It all starts back in January 2005 when I am just 13 years old, I am looking on our local classified site kijiji.ca at the car ads and stumbled across a ford that I have never seen before called a festiva, I say to my self what the heck is a festiva? So I check on google images to see for my self, I see this small ford and wonder to my self why I am attracted to this car?? Maybe because it appeared to be good on gas and it had the ford emblem on it?? To this day I still don’t know why. So I call my dad over and tell him that I want this car, he laughs at me and says why? I say I don’t know I guess I just like the look of it and that it is a ford. He brushes the idea away and leaves the room. This festiva was only $300 and after a couple of days I finally get my dad to email the lady and get some pics. When he gets the pics he was probably expecting that he shows them to me and just brush the topic away because I am only 13 at this time. This festiva was an aqua L that was rotted to no return. A couple of months later I see another festiva that is located an hour and a half away, by my grandparents house, they go and look at it and tell my dad that the rockers were rotten, so again my dad tells me and trys to move on. That October I turn 14. The next year during the heat of the summer I get my first glimpse of a mint festiva downtown at a garage, they want $2400 for it but my dad and I go and take a look at it anyway, this car was a 91L red 5spd with 140kms, with not a spec of rust on it and a factory sunroof! My dad and I talk it over and he says he would think about it. So we get home and explain the situation to my step mom, she explains that the car it too much and that I am way too young to have a car, which I understand now. The car sits in the parking lot for over a month and I talk my dad into go and test drive the car, so I call a couple of days later and ask the person at the shop when a good time would be to come and test drive it, she then explains to me that they just sold it the day before for $1400. I am appalled by this and phone up my dad almost in tears and tell him the news. He explains to me that there will be more out there. So I move on, still wanting to some day own a festiva of my very own. That fall while I am in the mall I pick up an isell (our local classified magazine) and look through and see a 92 GL and a free 93L parts car that came with it for $1000, as soon as I get home I call up the guy and get him to send me some pics, the car was a 5 speed and looked good from the pics but had been spray painted a dark red color. So a few days later my dad and I make the trip up to Ottawa where the car was located, as it turns out the winshield was cracked, and there was enough rust on the hatch and doors that made it “just not good enough said my dad”. On the ride back home my dad explains to me that I should just start to look for a different car because of the luck we were having. About a week short of my birthday my dad is in Ottawa on bussines and spots a red GL Sport 5 speed for only $300 that he was going to buy for my birthday for me, but unfortunately the doors were rotten so my dad leaves this GL Sport behind! (I didn’t know GL Sports were so rare until I got mine!!!) At this time I was losing hope to find my “cheap dream car” That January I was studying for my exams and decided to take a break and look on kijiji and see what was new, for some reason I go to the Oshawa region and put in festiva in the search….. I let the page load to find a 93 GL Sport for $750 with 117000kms. I try to calm my self down and click on the listing. I immediately call up the guy to check if it is still around, it is. I call my mom over to the computer to show her, she said that I could maybe go and see it after my exams were over. My cousins live in Oshawa and I get them to look at the car for me since it was a 2 hr drive. As I patiently wait for them to tell me how the car looked I though to my self, could this be the one?. They call me back a few hours later to tell me that it is in exceptional condition. I call up my dad (parents are divorced) and tell him the news, he says he will call him and states to me that after my exams were over we could go up and look at it, this was the middle of an intense semester and it would be over a week until my exams were over. The week passes with me studying and constantly thinking about this car, the week finally passes and I finish my exams. It is a Friday night and I would go to my dads in the morning and we would leave at 7am to go see the car. For some reason my mom and step dad let me sit the front of the car on the way to my dads, (they never do!) we arrive at my dads and I see a small red car behind a snow bank before we pull in the drive way, “I say to my self whose car is that?” Then it comes to me, “No way!” I yell out as we pull into the driveway. My dad and step mom were standing beside a 1993 Red Gl Sport! I couldn’t believe it after over 2 years of looking for a decent festiva I had finally got one!! As it turned out the day I first called my dad about the car he left the day after and went to Oshawa to get it. As the next semester started I told all my friends that I had finally scored a festiva, all they pretty much did was make fun of it and laugh, but I didn’t care. To this day it still gets made fun of almost daily. That march, 2007 now, I spent $450 getting it safteyed, wheel bearings, exhaust manifold fixed, refinish rotors, and brake lines. Over the course of the summer I still could not drive it as I was still 15. I have done lots to it since I have bought it, repainted wheels, tune up, oil change, waxed, new speakers, engine detail, and various other stuff. This past October I finally got my G1 which means that I have to drive with a driver in the front with me, I finally get to drive my car for the first time on the road! Since our winter are so harsh here I decide to not pay the insurance money and store it in my grandparents barn for the winter where it currently rests, insurance for a 16 year old is not cheap!
Current Modifications: Replacement speakers, front and back, painted wheels, new Nordic winter tires ($13 each at Canadian Tire), full tune up, all service manuals and dealership brochure.
Planned Modifications: Window tint, B6 swap in spring with my grampa, 14” wheels.
Car just before I show up to see it for the first time.
taker out for a spin with grandma! Grill insdie getting waxed!
Grampa watching me driving.
Wheel before paint.
Vote for me!
Location: Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Year, Make & Model of car: 1993 GL Sport, April in the Festiva Calendar.
Age: 16.
History of Car:
It all starts back in January 2005 when I am just 13 years old, I am looking on our local classified site kijiji.ca at the car ads and stumbled across a ford that I have never seen before called a festiva, I say to my self what the heck is a festiva? So I check on google images to see for my self, I see this small ford and wonder to my self why I am attracted to this car?? Maybe because it appeared to be good on gas and it had the ford emblem on it?? To this day I still don’t know why. So I call my dad over and tell him that I want this car, he laughs at me and says why? I say I don’t know I guess I just like the look of it and that it is a ford. He brushes the idea away and leaves the room. This festiva was only $300 and after a couple of days I finally get my dad to email the lady and get some pics. When he gets the pics he was probably expecting that he shows them to me and just brush the topic away because I am only 13 at this time. This festiva was an aqua L that was rotted to no return. A couple of months later I see another festiva that is located an hour and a half away, by my grandparents house, they go and look at it and tell my dad that the rockers were rotten, so again my dad tells me and trys to move on. That October I turn 14. The next year during the heat of the summer I get my first glimpse of a mint festiva downtown at a garage, they want $2400 for it but my dad and I go and take a look at it anyway, this car was a 91L red 5spd with 140kms, with not a spec of rust on it and a factory sunroof! My dad and I talk it over and he says he would think about it. So we get home and explain the situation to my step mom, she explains that the car it too much and that I am way too young to have a car, which I understand now. The car sits in the parking lot for over a month and I talk my dad into go and test drive the car, so I call a couple of days later and ask the person at the shop when a good time would be to come and test drive it, she then explains to me that they just sold it the day before for $1400. I am appalled by this and phone up my dad almost in tears and tell him the news. He explains to me that there will be more out there. So I move on, still wanting to some day own a festiva of my very own. That fall while I am in the mall I pick up an isell (our local classified magazine) and look through and see a 92 GL and a free 93L parts car that came with it for $1000, as soon as I get home I call up the guy and get him to send me some pics, the car was a 5 speed and looked good from the pics but had been spray painted a dark red color. So a few days later my dad and I make the trip up to Ottawa where the car was located, as it turns out the winshield was cracked, and there was enough rust on the hatch and doors that made it “just not good enough said my dad”. On the ride back home my dad explains to me that I should just start to look for a different car because of the luck we were having. About a week short of my birthday my dad is in Ottawa on bussines and spots a red GL Sport 5 speed for only $300 that he was going to buy for my birthday for me, but unfortunately the doors were rotten so my dad leaves this GL Sport behind! (I didn’t know GL Sports were so rare until I got mine!!!) At this time I was losing hope to find my “cheap dream car” That January I was studying for my exams and decided to take a break and look on kijiji and see what was new, for some reason I go to the Oshawa region and put in festiva in the search….. I let the page load to find a 93 GL Sport for $750 with 117000kms. I try to calm my self down and click on the listing. I immediately call up the guy to check if it is still around, it is. I call my mom over to the computer to show her, she said that I could maybe go and see it after my exams were over. My cousins live in Oshawa and I get them to look at the car for me since it was a 2 hr drive. As I patiently wait for them to tell me how the car looked I though to my self, could this be the one?. They call me back a few hours later to tell me that it is in exceptional condition. I call up my dad (parents are divorced) and tell him the news, he says he will call him and states to me that after my exams were over we could go up and look at it, this was the middle of an intense semester and it would be over a week until my exams were over. The week passes with me studying and constantly thinking about this car, the week finally passes and I finish my exams. It is a Friday night and I would go to my dads in the morning and we would leave at 7am to go see the car. For some reason my mom and step dad let me sit the front of the car on the way to my dads, (they never do!) we arrive at my dads and I see a small red car behind a snow bank before we pull in the drive way, “I say to my self whose car is that?” Then it comes to me, “No way!” I yell out as we pull into the driveway. My dad and step mom were standing beside a 1993 Red Gl Sport! I couldn’t believe it after over 2 years of looking for a decent festiva I had finally got one!! As it turned out the day I first called my dad about the car he left the day after and went to Oshawa to get it. As the next semester started I told all my friends that I had finally scored a festiva, all they pretty much did was make fun of it and laugh, but I didn’t care. To this day it still gets made fun of almost daily. That march, 2007 now, I spent $450 getting it safteyed, wheel bearings, exhaust manifold fixed, refinish rotors, and brake lines. Over the course of the summer I still could not drive it as I was still 15. I have done lots to it since I have bought it, repainted wheels, tune up, oil change, waxed, new speakers, engine detail, and various other stuff. This past October I finally got my G1 which means that I have to drive with a driver in the front with me, I finally get to drive my car for the first time on the road! Since our winter are so harsh here I decide to not pay the insurance money and store it in my grandparents barn for the winter where it currently rests, insurance for a 16 year old is not cheap!
Current Modifications: Replacement speakers, front and back, painted wheels, new Nordic winter tires ($13 each at Canadian Tire), full tune up, all service manuals and dealership brochure.
Planned Modifications: Window tint, B6 swap in spring with my grampa, 14” wheels.
Car just before I show up to see it for the first time.
taker out for a spin with grandma! Grill insdie getting waxed!
Grampa watching me driving.
Wheel before paint.
Vote for me!
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