New member intro

[2xclutchin]

Hello, my name is mike and I drive a Festiva. lol Really though I'm Mike Holmgren from TRF, MN(77 miles from Canada). (Before anyone asks, no, not the same as the football coach ) I own a 1989 Ford Festiva L 4speed. White with red stripe. 111,xxx miles, and still starts everytime. I came to this forum through google, saw there was a community for these "Festivals on wheels" so figured I'd join to learn.
The car was my first car the day I turned 16. Originaly owned by my Great Grandma. Just changed front pads and I'm quite certain that they were original equipment. <---btw that was the most difficult brake job I've ever done, in my life
I am a fairly experienced mech, and auto body tech. I want to spruce up the interior and exterior but I don't to much care about "vroom-vroom" lol. Alot of you guys on here are extremly talented and a good group all in all.
So heres to new ideas!
Also being new to this side of things, where do the body kits come from? lol
Oh one more thing, everyone in town knows me by this car, I'm 6'6" so I get all the "How do you get in there" jokes.
*MODS* I know this isn't technically car related and if this needs to be moved please do so as to not cause any trouble.

[eurotiva]

Welcome to the site. You will find a great group of people here.

[lanemeyer14]

Welcome bro!!

[navdoc101]

Welcome aboard!!!!

[JoDan]

Welcome to the site. It's nice to meet a legend in Wisconsin.

[orange cone]

welcome

[Charlie1717]

Welcome!

Stock body kits are rare and expensive! Most make their own from other cars Contour sport, capri, anything else at the junk yard.

[sc72]

Welcome to the Festiva world, A

[Basement_Modder]

At LEAST throw a B6 and aspire brakes in there if you can afford to. It will make the car more fun even though it still isn't 'powerful.'

Also, the white ones look sweet with a black grill, black bumpers, and black wheels. (even better if you have nice center caps and/ or chrome lugs.)

[2xclutchin]

Thanks everyone. I figured as much on the body kits but I figured I'd ask, just to see. Lol. After doing a bunch of reading on here, I am contemplating the Aspire brakes. My main focus is to start little things outside and do some comfort things to the interior. It's still alot to take in though, never in a million years figured there would be a forum like this. I never would have imagined people would do anything to these cars. Now that I learned some of the things you can do with them it brought back the Festival spark from 4 years ago lol. Yeah I've been thinking I might repaint the whole thing, we have a tech school in town and you can have it done for cost of materiels. One more improtant question, where do you find an air filter?

[freshtiva]

<---btw that was the most difficult brake job I've ever done, in my life

Thats odd, should be a breeze. Welcome to the site !!

[SimonTuffGuy]

This was the Festiva that I built a few years back... Still regret selling that car.

The bodykit and hood, euro headlights, tail lights, etc. all came from Festiva Motorsport. They are an outfit in MD. Parts can be found on EBay fairly often. You can give Roger a call at (410) 381-4660. His hours are 10-6 M-F. If he doesn't answer, I normally just try calling back later until I actually get ahold of Roger.

It's been said that he's not having the fiberglass kits produced anymore... But, then I've heard people who HAVE got parts since then too.

Anyways - Besides FMS, as was said above... Junkyard parts are the other option. There are lots of posts throughout the forum about adapting bumpers from other cars.

I've seen a couple kits come up in the FS section recently... But I believe most of them have already been grabbed.

Welcome to the site.

[Damkid]

Yup what Simon said about the body kits lol

Welcome to the addiction

[2xclutchin]

@damkid Well then that was the most hardcore breeze I've encountered lol. I think most of my problems came from the fact that the brakes are more than likely just as old as the car. @Simon That thing is b-e-a-utiful! Thanks for pointing me towards that, I'll have to give a call when I get the chance. Say I see everybody with the little box/console under the heater controls, was that standard equipment(I'm not talking about a full length console but just the "catch-all" thing? My '89 L doesn't have such a thing just kinda wondering. Once again thanks everyone for the warm welcome and I look forward to contributing/asking many questions!

[freshtiva]

I've got some of those "catch-all"(s) if you'd like to upgrade. I can't believe what damkid said about the brake jobs ??