Voting For July FOTM

[Axlander9289]

I'll throw my hat in the ring.

I bought my third Festiva, this '93 L back in November 2014 after finding it on Craigslist in Missoula, MT. My main motivation for buying it was jealousy of my brother's (January 2015 FOTM winner ThisVelologist) newly purchased Festiva. My first Festiva that I bought back in 2004 was an aqua '92 with similar graphics, so it was pretty much love at first sight when I saw this one. I drove it 350 miles back home to Billings including through a bizzard at the Continental Divide east of Butte without incident.



Once I got it home and set to work on it, getting it cleaned up, putting in new headlamp assemblies from Amazon, a modern stereo and speakers, passenger side mirror from a GL, and a 195 degree thermostat to cope with the harsh Montana winter. Just before Christmas, the timing belt jumped a tooth. Not wanting to do the job myself in an unheated garage, it went to a shop for a new timing belt and a few other minor tweaks like a crank seal and water pump while they were at it.

As the weather warmed up, I would take it for long drives out in the boonies every weekend, and take glamour shots.





I also gave it a thorough detail



and restored the bumpers with some Plastidip.





I went on a junkyard run, and found they had a few Festivas and Aspires laying around, so I picked up everything I needed for an Aspire swap, and did the rear brakes,


(Full disclosure, I'm running Aspire spindles and drums on the stock Festiva axle)

Then took a break to spray a spare hood with some left-over Plastidip.



Then I swapped over the front knuckles and brakes.



Here it is as it sits today with ANGRY HEADLIGHTS!



Festiva center caps, and obligatory FF.com decals from bobbyspider





In the long term, my plan is to hand paint some Rush album cover art on the hood, and install some coilovers. It's got just under 100k on the clock so I won't have to replace the engine for another decade or two.



Thanks for your consideration.

[william]

Well I'll give this a shot.
Last year around July I puck up this 91 gl. For 600
I bought this car to replace my rusting 90 l.
I drove to Desoto mo. About 3.5 hours to look at this car ,after finding it on Craigslist.
Overall the car was pretty rust free and that's about all I cared about. The car needed a radiator and some tlc.
I swapped the rad with a spare and I was off with my gf fallowing.
On the long ride home with no radio and 4 bad wheel bearings I thought I was going to go crazy on the way home.
with a bad cam and clogged air box (rats nest) it would run about 65 in 4th to the floor.
The car made it home just barely and I parked it with a major headache.
It took a little bit for me to get motivated to work on it in the summer heat but I got to work with replacing the worn parts and doing an aspire swap.


Adding the rear axle

I added new carpet as the car didn't come with any lol.


added escort seats and painted the interior with slacker paint.


the inside is mostly done and now I'm focusing on transferring the b6d from my rusty car to my new car.
More photos on my build thread here.
http://www.fordfestiva.com/forums/sh...3492-new-build!

[Damkid]

Good luck guys

[Twistiva]

Nice job to BOTH of you!

Nothing says 'love' like rescuing a Festy! htd

I'm so jealous! One of these days I'm going to enter Twistiva. I keep saying that: one....of.....these.....days.....