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Okay, it's not a Festiva - and we don't need more cars - but we found this two days ago, and had to buy it.
1986 Chevrolet Sprint 5-speed. It was raced for a total of 17 years (1990-2007), and was retired to street duty after that. Sadly, that's 5 years in Chicago, so it does have rust now.. hole in the floorboard, rust on the rockers. But the frame is in good shape, trans/clutch/engine good. The engine cranks out about 90-93HP (per PO), and I'd guess a maximum weight of 1500lbs.
It came with a spare transmission, aluminum racing seat, aftermarket gauges, Edelbrock carb and accessories, full racing-style harness belt, upgraded wheels, struts, who knows what else. It has a 3 cylinder Suzuki engine with a racing cam.
It made the 250 mile trip home with no issues, though it's got a grinding/squeaking noise up front (started as of an hour ago..), and we nursed it home to a shop. Though thinking twice about it, I'll see if my neighbor can help me tow it home.
The engine itself was only put in 25k ago. The story is the prior engine had a bad gasket that required taking the engine out, and there was an identical engine already sitting on the shelf, so they just dropped it on in. Evidently a new engine..
Problems I know about - other than the grinding - are the two bald front tires, and needs an alignment (fresh front axles within the last few thousand, never aligned). Gas gauge and speedo don't work, but I'll see if I can atleast remedy the speedo.. or get a GPS. :p
Managed ATLEAST 40MPG on the way home. The car sounds like it has glasspacks. It has that beautiful 60's muscle car *rumb-bub-bub-bub* kinda noise. No emissions stuff on the car whatsoever, no vacuum lines, no cat.
So anyway.. was sure an interesting trip. Never want to drive in Chicago again! :nono:
Here's a few more pictures of the car, roll cage, and racing seat (which he removed for us, as we're both too big to fit in it - it's tiiiny).
But all in all - this car moves out! We had it to 75 on the highway, and the RPMs weren't high enough to put it into 5th. I'd love to find out what the top speed is..
1986 Chevrolet Sprint 5-speed. It was raced for a total of 17 years (1990-2007), and was retired to street duty after that. Sadly, that's 5 years in Chicago, so it does have rust now.. hole in the floorboard, rust on the rockers. But the frame is in good shape, trans/clutch/engine good. The engine cranks out about 90-93HP (per PO), and I'd guess a maximum weight of 1500lbs.
It came with a spare transmission, aluminum racing seat, aftermarket gauges, Edelbrock carb and accessories, full racing-style harness belt, upgraded wheels, struts, who knows what else. It has a 3 cylinder Suzuki engine with a racing cam.
It made the 250 mile trip home with no issues, though it's got a grinding/squeaking noise up front (started as of an hour ago..), and we nursed it home to a shop. Though thinking twice about it, I'll see if my neighbor can help me tow it home.
The engine itself was only put in 25k ago. The story is the prior engine had a bad gasket that required taking the engine out, and there was an identical engine already sitting on the shelf, so they just dropped it on in. Evidently a new engine..
Problems I know about - other than the grinding - are the two bald front tires, and needs an alignment (fresh front axles within the last few thousand, never aligned). Gas gauge and speedo don't work, but I'll see if I can atleast remedy the speedo.. or get a GPS. :p
Managed ATLEAST 40MPG on the way home. The car sounds like it has glasspacks.
It has that beautiful 60's muscle car *rumb-bub-bub-bub* kinda noise. No emissions stuff on the car whatsoever, no vacuum lines, no cat.So anyway.. was sure an interesting trip. Never want to drive in Chicago again! :nono:
Here's a few more pictures of the car, roll cage, and racing seat (which he removed for us, as we're both too big to fit in it - it's tiiiny).
But all in all - this car moves out! We had it to 75 on the highway, and the RPMs weren't high enough to put it into 5th. I'd love to find out what the top speed is..
We're more careful now, of course. This Sprint even has a shiny new timing belt.
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