Accepting Entries For March FOTM

[Damkid]

Post away!!

[Flw Sock]

FOTM Entry!

My Festiva and goal a few months ago

I figure I'd enter today, because I'm constantly adding stuff and I've came to the realization that I will never be fully ready to post this, but I figure I've done a lot of work on it and it's worth posting now.

This is my Festiva, which I named The Pimptiva. Pimps only drive pimp cars, right?

Anyway, about 6 or 7 months ago I was looking for a new car that got good gas mileage because my mean bosses weren't giving me any hours, and therefore I couldn't afford to drive my trucks that get 14mpg on the highway. I had been looking at Festivas for a long time, because I thought that would be a sweet candidate for a car that I could totally pimp out with lights, speakers, and other typical teenager things. I also have a fetish for rare cars. After already looking and buying two cars before, I knew what the requirements were for my Dad to come with me to check one out. It had to be a decent deal for starters, but it also had to be within like 15-20minutes drive LOL. So, after searching for what seemed like forever, I found a Festiva for $500 that the guy said he think needed a ball joint and control arm. Being a race car driver and getting in crashes all of the time, those are the two most replaced parts my Dad and I have done. So, we scooted over there THE DAY I FOUND IT ON CRAIGSLIST, which is totally unheard of for my dad. After some haggling, we managed to scoop it up for $400 THE SAME DAY WE LOOKED AT IT, which is also totally unheard of for my Dad! Usually, we go to check out a car, and then come back a few weeks later hoping the person is softer on the price. After about 2 hours of trying to get it on our trailer, we brought my baby home. She was in rough condition, and to get it on/off the trailer, we had to keep kicking the drivers side front tire in because of the damaged ball joint, etc. There was A LOT of work to be done with it. While doing the control arm, we were forced to cut a small whole in the frame to get one of the bolts out, because the housing had broke! Despite the seized bolts and all the set backs, my Dad and I cranked it out in about a week. Once we replaced the drivers side axle, control arm, ball joint, and outer tie rod, we took it out for a spin. Once you get out of my subdivision, you go right into a highway. So, I began to stop at a stop sign before I get on the highway, and notice the brakes go ALL the way to the floor. After that incident, we bled the brakes for like 4 hours, to try to be sure we had to drop the money on a master cylinder. I ended up having to buy a master, and we put that in. It's ran perfectly ever since. Unfortunately, I don't have pictures of when I first bought it, or when we were working on it. It's probably a good thing, because after I bought it, it took me over 8 hours to clean it properly. It was nasty!!

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I still have to install a red/black shift boot. I'm still looking for a candidate jacket or something at the local goodwill that I can cut up to fabricate a sweet shift boot that will cover the entire shifter whole.
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George Webbs sticker, my first mod I did to this car....
+10hp



The exhaust is a funny story. When I first bought the car, the idiot had the muffler so it was right below the gas tank, and about 1 inch from the ground tops at all times. Whenever I had a passenger in a car, they would have to lean and put the side all the way up, otherwise it would scrap. Going downhill? Scraped the entire way. This is the new exhaust, I thought it looked cool since it's new.... SHINY!!!

Festiva Now!!

I've been trying to figure out some stuff to enhance the red and black theme. It was my birthday on the 12th, and my parents knew that I wanted to get the Festiva repainted with one big fat black stripe, and two skinny ones. Well, I came home from my birthday dinner and saw my Festiva all repainted and reworked. You can compare it to the previous pictures, and notice there is NO rust anywhere anymore. I gave the car to my Dad to get it rust proofed for my birthday, and ended up with rust proofing PLUS a paint job! The pictures do not show the incredibleness of the paintjob. Not only did they get it painted and rust proofed, but they also added the "Pimptiva" logo, and ford stickers, as well as re armor all my bumpers and the dash, put chains around the license plates, AND got me a matching steering wheel cover and floor mats!

[Prafeston]

If you click the little Photo looking thing in the reply box...it's right next to the video one that looks like a film strip...then you can post the photos straight into the thread. As long as they are 640x480. Makes viewing them much better as it's a paint to have to click into each link you provided.

[Flw Sock]

Yea I'm working on it as we speak, I just submitted it that way to save what I had in case something happened, which would be my luck.

[Prafeston]

You are doubling your pictures up!

[booshwaa1]

My new ride. Sorry i don't have much of a story about the build. Except when i went to check it out i knew i had to have it. Sense its by far the cleanest looking festiva I've seen in person. I used my hard earned money to buy it. But found out that after i had bought it that it had a cracked head. Which is all I've done to it myself is replaced the head. Its been out of commission for the past month or two due to the head being cracked. But just got it running again and driving so I'm happy about that.

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[FestYboy]

^ more info please!!!

[Prafeston]

And more PHOTOS!!!!

[Mercilesslee]

Hey flw sock you've got my vote great story of you and your dad making that car amazing. How much in total do you think you've spent on pimptiva since you've owned it? I'm looking for a master cylinder now and damn they are expensive.

[mazdaman42]

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1988 MAZDA 121 LOVED BY ONE FAMILY SINCE 91 SITS DYING AWAY WAITING FOR SOMEONE ANYONE AND WHEN IM OLD ENOUGH ITLL BE ME

well the car was bought in 19888 by my grandads friends wife they didnt know each other at the time te car WAS THEN GIVEN TO HER HUSBAND AS A CHEAP WORK CAR
WHEN THE ENGINE BLEW UP IN 91 HE SOLD THE CAR TO MY GRANDFATHER in 2003 he gave the car to his daughter and a incident with a motorcycle lead to a cross bread colours then years of a daily run around took its toll as in 2011 we got out the jumper cables clutched tarted the car drove to the harbour i whent in to get some food i came out and thick smoke was coming form the engine we tried to drive home and we made it although stopping many times to tend to the engine the batterd and bruised 121 came home we parked it next to a tree and it hasnt moed since

i have one thing in my life that i can care for and that is that car in 4 yrs when im able to get my learners i plan to get that car back on the road but everyday i belive the car is more and more doomed but i keep on hanging onto hope shes a fighter

and thats why im entering her shes nowhere as nice as the pimptiva but shes beautiful to me and ive finnaly found a place where people care about the same thing so vote me or not reading this post plz think about ur festiva and how the ford and mazda god work in mysterious ways

[Damkid]

Accepting Entries For March FOTM

Booshwaa, you need to post a story along with your pics, otherwise it won't count as an official entry

Mazdaman42, your story is pretty weak, anything more you can add?

[bobbyspider]

Can we nominate a car?! .... I think you know where I'm going with this :-)

[Flw Sock]

When is voting?

[Flw Sock]

It's march 3rd! The people shall not be silenced!

[Damkid]

Accepting Entries For March FOTM

Sorry guys, I'll get the voting going tonight and let it run for a few days before announcing the winner