What have you done to your Festiva today!?

[crazyrog17]

Ouch! SUV spare tire collision?

[Icedawg]

kissed her goodbye

I took Icetiva to a frame shop to get the twist and sway installed by a barrel roll pulled out of her. But they said no way, might as well reinstall the missing headlights and then shoot her between them. Another shell bites the dust!:cry_smile:

[Flyin4stroke]

Tornado?

[Oren09]

Chevy truck.

I was delivering in the aftermath of all that crap and slid into a truck. They can stop a hell of a lot faster than I can...

[Oren09]

More pictures.

What I hit:


In tow:


After some dis-assembly:



How do you reshape the crossmember?


My seatbelt broke and my nose bashed into the steering wheel.
Quite swollen now..

[neanderpaul]

Hate to see this Oren. by cross member do you meen radiator support? And did the stitching on your belt break?

[Flyin4stroke]

The cross member is under the car and holds the engine and trans. Just FYI, when I got whacked in my car I just used a hammer to get out what I could. I had to cut the support in the center out then straightened the headlight bucket to the best I could. I used a new fender and hood to figure out where the pieces needed to be then welded the center part back in. The piece that holds the hood latch is very flimsy mine was cracked mostly from the accident and would have broke if I tried straitening it. You did work on that chevy bumper. Lots of test fitting.
The metal of the support is being bound up, so once you start pulling it out it will want to take original shape with a little tweaking.

[Movin]

Jeez you slaughtered that trailer hitch stuff. Good luck figuring out what
a Festiva subframe and upper core support should look like,
I would just bolt in new.

Hope parts from east coast arrive today, a rear transmission mount.
Stock B3 5sp.

[Oren09]

I do mean the radiator support. The part that supports the headlights is bent in on both sides. Even the headlight that didn't break is bent.
And yes, the seatbelt stitching broke. I woke up with a nice black eye today.

I don't have a welder and I have no experience with body work. This shall be fun.

[Flyin4stroke]

Wow ford what's up with all of these belts braking. Recall? I'm calling my local congressman.

[neanderpaul]

It's literally just the stitching. I have one that looks really sketch. I'm ready to buy all brand-new belts. I can't get anybody locally to stitch them properly. It's a liability issue.

[crazyrog17]

My Dad has suggested sewing the belts up again. He's been an upholsterer for 30 years.

[neanderpaul]

My Dad has suggested sewing the belts up again. He's been an upholsterer for 30 years.

We need a how to and sticky it! Roger that?

[DrMaxwellEdison]

My grandmother has industrial sewing machine too, I'm planning to restitch mine in a few more weeks.... Should be interesting

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[neanderpaul]

Pulled the head off of my 323 GTX B6t in preparation for Zanzer coming to inspect it.