Voting For September FOTM

[Damkid]

This month we have 3 entries and they are from:

neaderpaul
aglatfe1
eurotiva

Here are the entries again:

Well for the first time ever neanderpaul has a worthy entry.

This is my 1993 Festiva GL. It is an automatic with air. A first for me on both counts as far a daily drivers go. I have known this festiva for bout 9 years. A friend from church owned it since it had 6000 miles on it in 1994. About 2 years ago I sold him and installed a headlight. Last year I bought steering rack boots from festiva motorsport as his mechanic couldn't find any! :lol: A mouse had chewed them through. We always knew when he was done with it I would get it. We talked about festivas often. I got it last month with just 105,xxx original miles on it. He sold it to me for $500. He was sad but glad to see it in good hands. I mean I'm no freshtiva, but I love festivas as much! It was solid white (see first pics). Since I have never liked the body colored bumpers and I think all cars look better trimmed in black off I went. All upgrades so far are cosmetic. I may consider a b6 swap in the future but right now it runs so great and has such low miles I can't bring myself to touch it. Mods so far are black spoiler, black painted - center of hood, center bar of 89 grille , bumpers, molding, and rear license plate surround. I added 90 LX specific "swoopy" power mirrors, tracer interior chrome door handles, a 3 outlet 12 volt power station, 88 smoothies, tracer interior dome light with map light upgrade. It has the original factory radio that actually sounds good with no static in the knobs and it actually looks good too. Factory cargo cover and factory alloys to boot! Of the goodies listed but not pictured I will add more pics asap.


So without further ado here it is #19! She's a keeper!











This GL came with manual mirrors. I added 90 LX swoopies and an orange "letter" power mirror switch from an 88 LX. The switch was bad. Thanks to Geneva Dirt I have a fully functional white "letter" power mirror switch. Thanks Willie! . And thanks to Festivus I have a white letter instrument cluster with tach! The mileage read 233,XXX when I got it. I set the miles to exactly match the mileage on the festiva today. It read 106,236. Thanks Matt!

I used a piece of cardboard and a crude sketch to keep up with the different size screws and bolts on the cluster.


Note the color matched heelys sticker in this cargo cover picture. It's been 11 years for me on heelys. I've never seen anybody within 15 years of my age on heelys. :lol:


I use a reusable rubbery post it tack type material to move my GPS around my different vehicles. I never liked them up on the windshield.

Here is my 3 plug power station. It powers my cell phone charger, my ipod touch charger.....

and my small power inverter. I always used the ashtray holder as a cup holder. Now it holds my power inverter that is designed for cup holders.

Map light upgrade..

The mighty LOW mileage B3...

Swoopies...


A STACK of receipts and hand written record from the p.o.

The n.o. (new owner :lol: ) in a state of bliss due to the sweet relief to be back in a daily driver festiva.

And a hitch hiker. Yes I need to put on the caps.

I have in my sites a 91 323 with the B6 and auto tranny. It has the 4 speed with lock up. it only has 70K miles on it. That is the drive train that will be in this festiva after I get the BPstiva on the road.
More hitchhikers!!!

[Damkid]

aglatefe1's entry

I will put my "Shark Bait" up for FOTM! She's called shark bait because whenever i put my kayak on top of her she looks like she has a big fin! lol

1989 Ford Festiva 4 speed! I just recently got my festiva from a friend of my dad's. It's named shark bait because whenever i put my kayak on top of it it looks like it has a fin. It has about 166,000 miles on it and is a 4-speed. I recently had a new radiator installed along with a whole new muffler system. Also, the black stripes on the side are gone that used to say Sun Festiva. I now have flames on the sides that change color in the sun. I also spray painted the rims a silver color. The interior is in very good condition and the original radio is still working great. I'm installing a new pair of speakers in the back sometime next week. I have no problems driving it at all! it's amazing!

[Damkid]

And eurotiva's entry

Well I'm going to enter for Festiva of the Month. Finally. I have been wanting to enter on my birthday month, but I found that it was euro's birthday 08/12/89, and figured fotm was about the car so here goes. It all started when I was a kid. My uncle had/has some of the fastest fords in the nation. He has been on the cover of Muscle Mustangs & Fast Fords multiple times. So i was raised a ford man. While we were fixing one of my mustangs (owned 9 by the way) , he let me borrow his '79 vw rabbit. It was fast too. Faster than any of my mustangs. I loved that little car. I then learned how much fun a small overpowered fwd car could be. Some years later my friends decided to be cool and sell their mustangs and get"tuner" cars. Hondas to be exact. So I thought well I should get an import so I can still go out and play.This little red festiva (eurotiva) had been sitting for sale down the road from my house for months. And when I saw the price go from $1500 to $1200 then to $900, I decided to go and make an offer on it. A few minutes later, after a quick test drive and some negotiating, I had an import, and a factory service manual. I spent a total of $750. This was in april of '05. Within a couple of weeks I had wheels,racing stripes and nitrous. And made a few of my friends upset. LOL This lttle car has been the best car i've ever owned. When my wife and kids and I moved to FL. about 3 yrs. ago I used the car as my "shop" truck. I opened a service business and drove the wheels off of it. About 1200 miles a week to be exact. The car had 146k miles when i got it. And after all the nitrous I thought the motor would be loose enough for a turbo. At 219k miles I mounted a turbo on it. I ran the stock B3 on 10 psi for about 2k miles. I got the car to run a 15.8@84 mph. Of course this required a few other parts. (clutch and fuel). After a trip to the dragstrip and playing with the dizzy I blew a head gasket. And we all know that if the stock motor goes .....you need a swap. That same week I bought a 91 mazda protege dx and that same weekend I had a swapped/turbo festiva. This car has seen lot's of everything too. My wife loves to auto-x it. I like to take it to the dragstrip. My 2 little girls are 3/6 and they are already fighting over who is gonna have it when they grow up. As you can tell I really enjoy my festiva and this community. And most of you guys probably have already seen alot of it but there is more. I have bought and sold many festys since I have owned euro, and I would like to give them props for the pieces i took to better euro.Here is some pics. Thanks for everybodies compliments and support.








And here is a pic of when Euro was a work truck. And the # is no longer working btw. I have hauled so much with this car and people flip when they see it pulling a trailer. I even went to bike week with it.




And my wife autoxing it. 3 wheelin'




Before I got red bumpers and spoiler..............................



And last but not least I wanted to say Happy Birthday(20) Eurotiva. The only regret with this car is that I did not take many pics............

[Smedley]

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decisions decisions

[batstiva]

Tough voting. All good entries!! No way I can split my vote, Kid??

[eurotiva]

Voting is open. WOOT!!

[thered56]

My vote's in!

[spiko]

Voting for the car with Graco car seats My mom works there lol.

All the entries this month are amazing and unique!

[eurotiva]

^^ hey I have the same seats for my 2 girls, but they aren't in the racecar.... I mean festiva.
They stay in my yfs car but will be in the festiva for a good time at madness.!!!

[ejp2fast]

my vote is in!

[MJD]

great lookers, all !!

Wow, such great cars you all !
Lots of great effort, thanks for your entries, motivates a person ....