Accepting Entries For April FOTM

[bobbyspider]

i cant believe your festiva bro! its so nice!

[festyfreak39]

IMHO, cleanest/most tastefully modded festiva on the forum!

[ernst]

IMHO, cleanest/most tastefully modded festiva on the forum!

Thank you for that. My GF actually choked when I read to her your comment but she'll be having a festiva soon, and a 2-door too,ha3! Hopefully, crossfingers,hehehe!

[HondaSlayer]

I was thinking of putting my up for FOTM sometime but I think i will be trying for a diffrent month . No way I can compete with looks or presentation this month. I still cant get over how good your festiva looks.

[Damkid]

I just re-read your entry Ernst and when i read it the first time, i missed the pics of your pride after a flood :shock: amazing job at restoring it!!

[ernst]

I just re-read your entry Ernst and when i read it the first time, i missed the pics of your pride after a flood :shock: amazing job at restoring it!!

I'm just the one who took care of our 2 prides cleaning it in detail like disassembling and assembling of interiors, piece by piece. I just have the red pride first then my white. I cleaned all except for the dashboard. Still upto now, you can see proof that it was flooded at the dashboard vent.

[leapin]

I vote FOTY!

[kumalaba]

its a beauty

[Damkid]

so who else is going to enter for FOTM?? we need competition people :lol:

[HondaSlayer]

Apperently there isn't any

[HondaSlayer]

My Super Festiva

Ok. I'll get the ball rolling on giving Ernst a run for his money . And this is on a phone so I might have some messed up words and grammer. So bear with me.

My festiva I am entering is a 1993 Festiva L. I have had it since before I got my drivers licences. My brother and I were driving around dirt roads near my old house when we saw this little white car sitting in a field all by itself. We stopped in and the owner was outside so we talked to him. Long story short he said you can have it for free if you take the scrap in the back of it. SCORE!. So the next day it was on its way back to our house. Since I was only 14 my brother put it in his name. He was driving it around for a little while. All it needed for inspection was exhaust.

Well about 3 months later I got a Ford ranger for free from another person over in pennsburg. Well my brother wanted the ranger so we traded each other and that was when I got the festy fever. Even though I couldn't drive it I was always tinkering with it and driving it up and down a dirt road near out house. When I finally turned 16 it was off for my permit. Well after the 6 months or whatever it was till I went for my test. Well I took the festiva for my test. The guy laughed at me when I pulled up. Well needless to say it passed the parallel parking no problem. Passed my license and it was all over. I was out in it all the time loving it more and more.

I then found this site and wanted to do a motor swap in the worst way. Fast forward till in the last year. I still had the car and have beatin this car mercilessly since I had got my licence. I went through 2 transmissions and one motor because of a crappy turbo kit gone wrong. Well i still wanted to do a motor swap and was looking around. Well as of bad luck on someone else's part I came across a deal to get a whole swap .




Then the fun begins. I start stripping both cars for the transplant. I never attempted this before but I was so ready for it I didn't care. I got them both in the garage and got to work. I pulled the motor and trans and all the interior to put in my car and started on the bumpers and outside.



Then it was time to move the green one and start on the blue one

I started with this on a Monday.




I ended with this on Saturday in the same week.



That was a rough week. But it was all worth it. When I took that car for a ride down the street I smiled so big I didn't think I could ever stop. It was a rush.

Well as you can see from the next picture my car was looking like it had a bad attack from the Walmart spray can isle. Well time to change that.



Found the spray paint that we had the most of at the house. WHITE IT IS!



After that it was getting all the bugs worked out and just enjoying the pleasure of being one of the proud festiva owners. I have a special place in my heart for my beloved festiva. It was my first car and I will never let this car leave me.

Well that is my story of my festiva and how it got to where it is today and it wouldn't have got this far without all the help from everyone here at fordfestiva.com. Well now that my eyes feel like they are going to fall out from staring at this little phone screen I will say i hope you like my story and consider me for FOTM. Thank you

Eliott

[Basement_Modder]

She... she's BEAUTIFUL! *tears*

[Advancedynamix]

Poor Hulkstiva RIP.... Moment of silence......

Now, on a positive note, it's great to see that you made good use of that swap in a very short time! Your car looks great! Was it originally white?

[HondaSlayer]

It was white when I got it but then I sprayed it black, then blue, and now white again. And thank you.

[91mcnasty]

All about workin with what you got eliott, the car looks awesome. I wanna ride in a turbo festy so bad!!! I'm even building one and haven't even had a good ride in one of them!!!