Accepting Entries For April FOTM

[sasquatch]

awesome!!! that thing is MINT!!!

[eurotiva]

awesome!!! that thing is MINT!!!

California car 8)

[sasquatch]

i know... drool

[perucho]

Thanks guys. Yeah, we are lucky that the weather likes cars over here.

[Kofkof_00]

... I'm blown away! what are those seats from?

this thing is "Piiiii-iii-aamp".

[perucho]

...what are those seats from?

From a Prelude

[Claude]

nice whips. you should just leave that bp in the trunk and wire it like that lol

[slacka_6]

This is my 93 Festiva L 120k my daily driver!

well lets see got my car about a year ago with 98k on it for $150 running has rebuilt and plainned head because previous owner stripped out three outta four spark plug holes! traded a buddy a tool cart and the $150! drives great! its so much fun to drive! sounds good too with the flowmaster and 2.25" exhaust!

for a bit more of a story i'll tell you about the planned upgrades. full aspire brake swap, aspire swaybar with prothane red bushings, new festy cv shafts, aspire lower control arms, jetta mkiii 14" five stars with falken ziex 512 185/60/R14, kyb gr2 struts all around civic dropzone coilovers springs with adjusters, interior all black even carpet, foil backed auto insulation and rubberized undercoating the whole inside under the trim and carpet and such, tint all three rear windows, new fenders and hood, now for the paint scuffed and the rott fixed primered and blocked out so its smooth, everything above the bottom of the window painted jet black and the rest of the car paint with urathane base coat clear coat pewter silver metallic! paint the bumpers and the rims black as well...
and after i get a truck or if i find a deal a turbo motor to liven it up a bit.. not sure which one yet nothin to radical bpt or b6t... use to have a lancer ralliart and a subaru wrx turbo man i miss those turbo pulls! love workin on cars, auto tech by trade! turbo swap +tranny should be within the realm of my abillity! lol

[Maxtiva]

You need to have a story

[darrenryall]

I'll give it a go as well, posted this all up for March, and then noticed that March's was over.

This is the first shot I think I took every of the car... we'll use this as the starting point..


Had the Festiva for about 7 weeks now, and she was pressed into DD status before she was really ready. Still haven't gotten a name for the car, but I'm narrowing down towards "Farmstiva" or "Stiv" based off what's left of the Festiva decal I have still..


The car is a "farmer's field special" where the car had lived for about two years. Three previous owners ago appeared to be a mom or something, then a local guy bought (or got) the car, who gave it to his brother-in-law to fix up for his wife. Had a five speed in it originally I believe, but it's sort of been converted over to auto by him because the wife doesn't do standard. In the end, she decided not to drive Festiva either, so the plywood "For SAle" sign went up.

Saw her at the same time as the station wagon, and made arrangements to get both, with the Festiva being eyed as a DD for me for the 90 mile commute. Became imperative to drive it when the brakes failed on my minivan (and it got traded in towards the new truck for the wife) and the station wagon came off the road.

Came with a few quirks (my dash is in metric btw so I'm doing just below 60mph on a flat road with no traffic, and that is the key from the ignition.. fixed now):


Turns out that the key I got for the car was for a Suburu, and when the lock managed to get locked, all of a sudden I couldn't drive the car. Got a new one cut. Drivers side window was so bound up that the handle crank nub is busted off.. passengers side is okay.

The car doesn't like cold temperatures very much.. and I'm getting surging and issues when the temp gauge drops below minimum normal range. But I coax it to and from work in a 180km/111 mile daily commute.

Until I can get the drivers side lock graphited, I'm still using the farmers latch to keep the door locked in the city..


Missing the radio


But it's starting to clean up well!



plus the new Red LED tailights are in..


So there you go.. my work in progress..

[Damkid]

^^the farmers latch is pretty funny

[darrenryall]

^^the farmers latch is pretty funny

Sad, redneck, a bit Mister Bean.. and painful to put on, both physically (smashed my thumb a couple of times) and mentally. (I punctured the car). :p

This is why I was entering for March initially.. thought that that was still open, and my car definitely fit the "rough" type catagory called for in March's competition.

Going against a field of finished and polished vehicles, I don't hold much for her chances.. but so far, I'd definitely put this car up with the Mercury Bobcat I used to own for being a fun vehicle to drive.

[92festie]

hey my car isnt finished nor polished lol

[1988redfordfestiva]

hi i would like to enter but my car is a work in progress

here are some pics of before and after right now its gona get repainted but leaving the top red and painting the bottom dark blue













well the main thing i have done to this car was rebuilding the engine new head gasket and new exhaust cut the glass pack and replaced with a red after market has a new clutch new heater core new fan and sensors interiour missing radio but all new speakers body rot driver side door and bootom just finished the repairs on the driverside now fixing the passanger side well hope that enough car has 125,000 orignal miles would like to drive itt but still need to hook up 5 vaccum lines then i can see if it drives nice also has all new brakes and front axles plus rims where painted flame red found a can of the paint used on some of the cat even the gas cap was painted red with some fire flame plastic stickers...

[Damkid]

^^There's almost no story to your entry, please add a bit more to it