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Originally posted by j.walking
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I have been reading the site for a while but have never posted but I figured others should see my car so here it is.
I am from Ottawa, Ontario and have owned this car for about 7 months it’s a 1990 Festiva Lx , I never really planned on owning a festiva but I found this one for sale down the road from my house for 200 bucks with 150 000 km, news brakes and a new exhaust system. It was sitting for 4 years but still ran very good. When I brought it home I started to look it over and found a mouse nest in the air box. I bought the car to use it as a field car and was just going to beat it around the fields and have some fun with it because I didn’t have my license yet. But after driving it awhile I decided it was a good car and to only half beat on it so it has a chance to survive until I get my license. Most of the time you couldn’t see what colour my car was because it was covered in mud. Well I didn’t really like its original white colour so I painted it Tremclad yellow. I also added a set of hood pins, painted the grill, side-moldings, bumpers black and put on the cheap window tint I got from princess auto for $6.99. Since my car is now black and yellow I have named it the “ Lil’ Hornet ” and it displays that with pride on its hatch. Since it gets driven around fields sometimes it gets stuck and has to be pulled out by the tractor but it pretty good at holding its own also I ran over a log and put a dent in the bottom of the gas tank (o well it costs less to fill now). I am hoping to some day put a b6 in it, but the stock motor has such low km’s I am going to keep it stock for a while. The tires are almost completely bald and cracked by weather, but I bought a set of 4 brand new kumhos for $50 from a lady who had them in her garage but never put them on her car so she decided to sell them. Anyway I ended up getting a great car, for a great price that is fun to drive and work on.
I am from Ottawa, Ontario and have owned this car for about 7 months it’s a 1990 Festiva Lx , I never really planned on owning a festiva but I found this one for sale down the road from my house for 200 bucks with 150 000 km, news brakes and a new exhaust system. It was sitting for 4 years but still ran very good. When I brought it home I started to look it over and found a mouse nest in the air box. I bought the car to use it as a field car and was just going to beat it around the fields and have some fun with it because I didn’t have my license yet. But after driving it awhile I decided it was a good car and to only half beat on it so it has a chance to survive until I get my license. Most of the time you couldn’t see what colour my car was because it was covered in mud. Well I didn’t really like its original white colour so I painted it Tremclad yellow. I also added a set of hood pins, painted the grill, side-moldings, bumpers black and put on the cheap window tint I got from princess auto for $6.99. Since my car is now black and yellow I have named it the “ Lil’ Hornet ” and it displays that with pride on its hatch. Since it gets driven around fields sometimes it gets stuck and has to be pulled out by the tractor but it pretty good at holding its own also I ran over a log and put a dent in the bottom of the gas tank (o well it costs less to fill now). I am hoping to some day put a b6 in it, but the stock motor has such low km’s I am going to keep it stock for a while. The tires are almost completely bald and cracked by weather, but I bought a set of 4 brand new kumhos for $50 from a lady who had them in her garage but never put them on her car so she decided to sell them. Anyway I ended up getting a great car, for a great price that is fun to drive and work on.
which was cheap for a mint festiva... but i did not have enough money. it sat there for about a year and i drove past it every day i went to school, it was hell.... then my mom said that for my birth day she would paty the rest for it, we went down there and it said the we would like to buy the festiva out front and the guy says that i was a day late... it was sold the day before.... then many days past, and then some months past. then one day, an add came up on craigs list, i went to look at it and to my amazement it was another 1990 lx !!! it looked good, smelled good and ran good. so i said ill take it! now finaly i had a festiva!!! i went to pick it up and as i back out of the drive way i hear that there is a bad wheel bearing... i was thinking "i just bought a big pile" but thankfuly that was the only thing wrong with it. when i got it home the mods started to add up. first was the aspire swap on the front to fix that bad wheel bearing. then a bunch of little things like map lights, muffler delete pipe, intermittent wipers, auto console, smooth tail lights and power door locks. then some of the big mods started, like the headers i built, the rear part of the aspire swap and my home made gauge pod. i had no money to put plates on it so it just sat in my drive way. then i got a phone call about a job and before you know it, i had a job 
i put some plats on it and was happy to finaly be driveing my festiva 
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