Voting For June FOTM

[Damkid]

Sorry for the late start in voting this month, i've been busy the passed week..... this month we have 3 entries, they are from...

kartracer46
tb8983
Festiva_Fred

Here is kartracer46's entry

This is my 1988 Festiva L. I purchased this little wonder on CL to build myself a fun little car that would be good on gas. I replied to the ad and the guy said come look at it and see what you think. I said Ok, I’ll be over this morning and take a look. Well to me it was love at first sight since I hadn’t driven a Festiva in almost 5 years. My wife on the other hand was mumbling something to the affect I had lost my mind. I will admit the poor little guy looked rough. It was missing a left corner and head light and the grill was shattered from where some one just ripped it out to get the light out. I love orphans so I adopted it for $300.00 that day. Long story short the guy told me the clutch was out, no biggie. Well I got it home and the trans was shot. I think the shift fork must have been completely busted for it wouldn’t shift into anything. But it pushed easy. So I decided to join FF.com and see if anyone might know where to locate a transmission. I joined and started posting. It was tough at first since I had no clue what codes were when posting, thank you guys! Anyhow I get this email from non other than “V8 Festiva” telling me to give him a call and he will help me out. I was then invited to come to an undisclosed location to meet with him and pull some parts. I called Dean and he told me he was getting ready to head down to Florida to meet with the bunch down there. I said Ok, I can’t make that trip but we can get together when you get back. He said sounds cool, we’ll pull some parts and then go over to another local yard he knew of to pull some Aspire swaps. Well that day never came because a great loss came before then. I felt like I had lost an old friend. So I set out to take everything Dean and I had discussed and follow through with a tribute in his memory. So here is my tribute to Dean “V8 Festiva” a good friend and fellow car guy.

Since that time I have met so many nice people and enjoyed posting on the FF.com board. This little car went from being a mode of transportation to a portal to a world of cool people, good friends and a future of meeting so many more along the way. I try to keep in mind that our common goal here is to keep as many of these little mechanical wonders running as we can so that maybe more people can find and enjoy these experiences.

In conclusion I basically took this primered up little 88L and poured my heart and soul into this project for the last few months to build a unique “tailored to my style” Festiva that I could call my own. There are still a lot of little things I want to do to this little whip.

Current upgrades are:
14” PCW style 258 wheels
89 LX “checker board” interior
early MAZDA RX-7 steering wheel
Tach cluster
Escort map/dome lights
Hyundai Tiberon rear wing with LED brake light in memory of Dean
Clear side repeaters (SAAB knock off style)
Painted dash bezels
5-speed Festiva transmission (was a 4-speed car)
JVC head unit with Reliance and Diamond Audio speakers

Future upgrades:
B6 Mazda SOHC engine
F-series 5-speed transmission
Coil over conversion like “Skeeter” has
Small Turbo (T3 or similar), SAAB also has a nice small Garrett too
Clear Corners
Clear Turns
Nicer set of wheels and tires.

Well I hope ya’ll like it and thank you for reading this! It has been a pleasure meeting some of you in person and I plan on trying to meet more of you as the year progresses.

Special thanks to: Dean “V8 Festiva”, “Smedley”, “Skeeters Keeper”, “Pu241”, “FestYboy” and several others for helping me along the way. Of coarse it’s still a WIP, but it should be a note worthy car when I get it finished completely.

This was when I brought it home:





Here are some current pictures:






Thank you again for looking and all of your advice and support along the way!
PS: I didn't post extralarge pics from CarDomain because they are huge. There are a few enlarged pics in my other post.http://www.fordfestiva.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=28789

[Damkid]

tb8983's entry

Ok here comes the competition(lol) Well as some of you know I got out of the tiva game a year and a half ago and well didnt make it long before I bought tiva number 7 and well I decided that it need to much work to get going so I bought a 93 tiva shortly after that tiva number 8. I found this green 93 on craigslist for the high price of 700 o.b.o and well it was interested in it but the price was to much. I went to look at it 2 days later and well I wasn't sold on it tore up interior, shot water pump, bad axels, and no windsheild wipers assembly what so ever. I was talking to the owner and I told him i wouldn't give him anymore then 400 for it. HE said he would only take 500 at the lowest and he would have his friend do the water pump. I told him 400 the way it sits. Well 2 days later I had it and took it to my sister's house where the fun began. I started making 2 festiva's into one. Started with interior by swaping steering wheels and put the center console in the green one and alos installed my dash clock. I began to tear down the red one knowing and thinking which parts should i use on the green one. I then took about the next 2 weeks and swap doors fender another hatch I had and the suspension and aspire brake swap. After doing all of that I had a 5 color festiva and decided I had better paint it. I could decide for a couple days what color I wanted. I was looking at some old pics of past cars I had and came across my first festiva and it was painted flat black. I was hook agian to the color except the last one didnt have the windows or black wheels. Well now its painted and I think its looks awesome i'm getting looks all around towm people cant figure out what it is cause there is no bagdes onit what so ever. My future plans include putting my zx2 seats i have in my sisters garage in it and putting a better sterio system in it. This being my 8th one I know what I wanted and wasted no time getting it there. I have a couple pics to put here of before during and after the rest of the pics are at the following link

http://community.webshots.com/album/577620256ZqzJeh

[Damkid]

Festiva_Fred's entry

Here is my entry, it's a 1989 L. At first the car was my parent's car, and I drove it on weekends and stuff while they were driving it. Then they got a new car, and I had my 93' so the car sat for a long while. After the 93' blew the headgasket I brought this car back to life and started driving it again. I have lots of fun memories with this car, it's the first festiva that I ever drove out on the hwy. I got my first speeding ticket with this car :lol: and I took it to prom my junior and senior year.

Here it is the day we bought it:







Some pics of the cars progress along the way..

Senior Prom


How it sits right now.





Here's a list of everything that I've done to it so far:
-Aspire Swap with Honda VX wheels
-FMS strut brace
-New struts/shocks w/cut stock springs
-New tie rod ends
-New CV's on both sides
-New Radiator
-New Muffler
-New spark plug wires

Future plans for it are:
-Do all the body work on it and then repaint it
-B6-E swap
-Aspire front sway bar
-Escort GT front seats or some sportier ones


Well, thats my entry.. I know it's not much to look at but it gets the job done [/QUOTE]

[Wldfire]

Wow! Great Cars everyone!!! Always so hard to choose who to vote for!!! Good Luck to everyone!!! Maybe someday I will enter my baby!

[festymick]

Voted....
All very nice examples....

[batstiva]

Nice cars all around. Tough voting. Best of luck to all.
BTW, Fred the last two pics of yours have about the best background ever for a car pic. IMHO.

[postman101]

kartracer46 has my vote

[kartracer46]

kartracer46 has my vote

One day I want to see the May winner in person.

[1988redfordfestiva]

kartracer46 has my vote