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Did my daily search craigslist search of my home town and this beast was sitting there posted for $600. Called him up to find out he is less than a mile from my house. Didn't even know what a festiva was at the time. 20 minutes later I'm at his house starting the car and inspecting. Offered him $400 without a test drive and he accepted. Went to move it as it was sitting in a puddle to check for rust underneath only to realize I could only get to 3rd and 4th gear. Renegotiated him down to $340 he pushed me to for a rolling start and I was able to limp home in 3rd, lucky it was a a short drive with only one intersection I rolled right through for fear of stalling. The same night I found this website and started trouble shooting, thanks again for the help. Shift linkage was fixed over the next few days with a trip to the local hardware store and a Honda short shifter from ebay, total cost to get her road worthy again was just a smidge over $20. Then it was off to dmv to register and insure which doubled my cost of ownership. There have been some lingering issues that are being resolved. I just put new kyb struts on the back and while I was back there I decided to replace the rear bearing. That's about brings us up to today where its sitting on jack stands waiting for a new spindle so she can get back to business. Future repair include some clicking front axels that are due to be replaced, as well as the signals indicator stalk that I have a bungie cord holding in place so I don't look like I'm changing lanes every time I hit a bump. The temp sensor is also non operative which I'm hoping is just a sensor. After the safety and reliability concerns are alleviated I will move on to some wheels and asthetics. There is a local capri turbo for sale for $500 but I don't think I'm ready to tackle that job just yet just enjoying the 1.3 for now.
I'm having some issues with url so hopefully this image post, I work for a Ford Dealer and a GT350 R just came off the carrier so I had to park next to it and take a pic.
Did my daily search craigslist search of my home town and this beast was sitting there posted for $600. Called him up to find out he is less than a mile from my house. Didn't even know what a festiva was at the time. 20 minutes later I'm at his house starting the car and inspecting. Offered him $400 without a test drive and he accepted. Went to move it as it was sitting in a puddle to check for rust underneath only to realize I could only get to 3rd and 4th gear. Renegotiated him down to $340 he pushed me to for a rolling start and I was able to limp home in 3rd, lucky it was a a short drive with only one intersection I rolled right through for fear of stalling. The same night I found this website and started trouble shooting, thanks again for the help. Shift linkage was fixed over the next few days with a trip to the local hardware store and a Honda short shifter from ebay, total cost to get her road worthy again was just a smidge over $20. Then it was off to dmv to register and insure which doubled my cost of ownership. There have been some lingering issues that are being resolved. I just put new kyb struts on the back and while I was back there I decided to replace the rear bearing. That's about brings us up to today where its sitting on jack stands waiting for a new spindle so she can get back to business. Future repair include some clicking front axels that are due to be replaced, as well as the signals indicator stalk that I have a bungie cord holding in place so I don't look like I'm changing lanes every time I hit a bump. The temp sensor is also non operative which I'm hoping is just a sensor. After the safety and reliability concerns are alleviated I will move on to some wheels and asthetics. There is a local capri turbo for sale for $500 but I don't think I'm ready to tackle that job just yet just enjoying the 1.3 for now.
I'm having some issues with url so hopefully this image post, I work for a Ford Dealer and a GT350 R just came off the carrier so I had to park next to it and take a pic.
CLICK HERE FOR PICTURE
Did my daily search craigslist search of my home town and this beast was sitting there posted for $600. Called him up to find out he is less than a mile from my house. Didn't even know what a festiva was at the time. 20 minutes later I'm at his house starting the car and inspecting. Offered him $400 without a test drive and he accepted. Went to move it as it was sitting in a puddle to check for rust underneath only to realize I could only get to 3rd and 4th gear. Renegotiated him down to $340 he pushed me to for a rolling start and I was able to limp home in 3rd, lucky it was a a short drive with only one intersection I rolled right through for fear of stalling. The same night I found this website and started trouble shooting, thanks again for the help. Shift linkage was fixed over the next few days with a trip to the local hardware store and a Honda short shifter from ebay, total cost to get her road worthy again was just a smidge over $20. Then it was off to dmv to register and insure which doubled my cost of ownership. There have been some lingering issues that are being resolved. I just put new kyb struts on the back and while I was back there I decided to replace the rear bearing. That's about brings us up to today where its sitting on jack stands waiting for a new spindle so she can get back to business. Future repair include some clicking front axels that are due to be replaced, as well as the signals indicator stalk that I have a bungie cord holding in place so I don't look like I'm changing lanes every time I hit a bump. The temp sensor is also non operative which I'm hoping is just a sensor. After the safety and reliability concerns are alleviated I will move on to some wheels and asthetics. There is a local capri turbo for sale for $500 but I don't think I'm ready to tackle that job just yet just enjoying the 1.3 for now.
I'm having some issues with url so hopefully this image post, I work for a Ford Dealer and a GT350 R just came off the carrier so I had to park next to it and take a pic.
Did my daily search craigslist search of my home town and this beast was sitting there posted for $600. Called him up to find out he is less than a mile from my house. Didn't even know what a festiva was at the time. 20 minutes later I'm at his house starting the car and inspecting. Offered him $400 without a test drive and he accepted. Went to move it as it was sitting in a puddle to check for rust underneath only to realize I could only get to 3rd and 4th gear. Renegotiated him down to $340 he pushed me to for a rolling start and I was able to limp home in 3rd, lucky it was a a short drive with only one intersection I rolled right through for fear of stalling. The same night I found this website and started trouble shooting, thanks again for the help. Shift linkage was fixed over the next few days with a trip to the local hardware store and a Honda short shifter from ebay, total cost to get her road worthy again was just a smidge over $20. Then it was off to dmv to register and insure which doubled my cost of ownership. There have been some lingering issues that are being resolved. I just put new kyb struts on the back and while I was back there I decided to replace the rear bearing. That's about brings us up to today where its sitting on jack stands waiting for a new spindle so she can get back to business. Future repair include some clicking front axels that are due to be replaced, as well as the signals indicator stalk that I have a bungie cord holding in place so I don't look like I'm changing lanes every time I hit a bump. The temp sensor is also non operative which I'm hoping is just a sensor. After the safety and reliability concerns are alleviated I will move on to some wheels and asthetics. There is a local capri turbo for sale for $500 but I don't think I'm ready to tackle that job just yet just enjoying the 1.3 for now.
I'm having some issues with url so hopefully this image post, I work for a Ford Dealer and a GT350 R just came off the carrier so I had to park next to it and take a pic.