Bye Bye Festiva

[Flw Sock]

:cry_smile:

I'll be putting away my precious Festiva for the winter, and bringing out my Ranger!

I hate to put it in storage.... but it's for the best. This way, I can have it longer!!

No worries though, it will be stored well. Plenty of gas saver, and it will be started at least 1 month and kept running to insure that nothing seizes up.

I'm already missing it

[WTFestiva]

I feel for ya man. I've been wanting to tinker with my festiva, even though it's been giving me hell, for 2 weeks now. I can't imagine going a whole winter without it :cry_smile:.

[All systemz]

Putting away? Winter is Festiva season!
They are legendary in the snow. I'm actually considering studding up a pair of extra tires I have and doing some ice racing out on the lake.

[Flw Sock]

I've heard that they are winter beasts, but I'm doing it to prevent more rust.

[xaero_81]

Should have one for every season.

[Damkid]

Mine will get put away fairly soon too just gotta get one for the winter lol

[Ogrestiva]

Winter is sooooooo much fun in a festiva! get some old balding tires(bring a spare) and go have fun in an abandoned parking lot after about 2 inches of snow...Soooooo much fun especially if you have 4 or more people in the car and you get it up to 45mph crank the e-brake and yank the steering wheel and hold on!

[Bert]

:cry_smile:

I'll be putting away my precious Festiva for the winter, and bringing out my Ranger!

I hate to put it in storage.... but it's for the best. This way, I can have it longer!!

No worries though, it will be stored well. Plenty of gas saver, and it will be started at least 1 month and kept running to insure that nothing seizes up.

I'm already missing it

There really are 2 minds of thought on this.
1) I like the car and I'm gonna put it through it's paces and enjoy it 24/7, and when it wears out or dies I'll start looking for another one or a new experience, or
2) I like this car and I'm gonna avoid bad weather, wear and tear and bad roads in order to keep it looking good for as long as I own it.

I've given up on aspiring to own classic cars. You spend all your time 'not' driving them. By my figuring Festys are made to be enjoyed and pushed to the limit. A pristine LX that languished in the garage for 20 years is only worth a couple of thousand dollars more than the worn-out L that has travelled 1/4 million miles and put smiles on the faces of all it's owners by virtue of not getting stuck in the snow, climbing curbs to avoid traffic, keeping the fuel bills down, and not costing an arm and a leg to repair. Newest owners are same age as the car, and they love it.

I have a 68 Chev C10 CST (Custom Sport Truck, says so right on the door skin!) that was purchased in Vancouver in 1982 from the original owner, has now been properly stored for 30 years, hasn't been on the road at all for 16 and has never been in the salt/snow. Storage @ $200/yr means the vehicle is already worth 6 grand, just to break even. Ain't gonna happen. I should have just drove, updated the brakes and tranny and enjoyed it and been way further ahead.
However; if you do take good care of that car and I still lust over Festys 10 years from now I will look you up and pay top dollar (which is still peanuts compared to the cost of a new car) for your efforts should you decide it needs a new home.

[Damkid]

My choice in not driving my festiva in winter is for 2 reasons, to help prevent rust and simply it would just spin in the slightest amount of snow and be unsafe to drive

[Ogrestiva]

As long as you learn to control and enjoy the spin it it just as safe as any vehicle. The key is to teach yourself how to drive in unsafe conditions so that when you see adverse driving conditions, you can act instead on react to a situation. Knowledge is power! And as festies go If you have a rusted out, bald tired, dieing jalopy I see no reason to not have fun with it.

[georgeb]

Do the skinny 12s grab better in the snow than wider tires? I'm thinking that the thin tires would dig down to the pavement vs floating on top.

[kellen302]

Git yerself some Hankook Zovaks in 155/80/12 size. Studded or unstudded. In the winter I keep mine (studded) in the back and use them instead of chains. This is because studded tires rip up the road like nobody's business and are worse on bare pavement than normal tires. In the snow though, they are like freaking claws on the front (only have 2) I can have the whole car sideways and as soon as I give the fronts something to do it just digs right our of whatever it was in.

[Bert]

Do the skinny 12s grab better in the snow than wider tires? I'm thinking that the thin tires would dig down to the pavement vs floating on top.

Can't say even though I've been out driving in every winter for over 40 years. With skinny tires you'd think less surface area having to plough through slush/snow, plus more pounds per square inch exerting contact with the ground would all be to your benefit.
The resurgence of snow tires, after 20 years of being brainwashed that 'all seasons' are fine, has been a blessing. The secret to traction in snow and ice is not to spin the tires and that's where manual trannys really come into their own. Start off in 2nd or 3rd and away you go.

[Flw Sock]

Winter is sooooooo much fun in a festiva! get some old balding tires(bring a spare) and go have fun in an abandoned parking lot after about 2 inches of snow...Soooooo much fun especially if you have 4 or more people in the car and you get it up to 45mph crank the e-brake and yank the steering wheel and hold on!

I was thinking the same thing. The only problem is that I do not have an ebrake. The ranger Is a super good drift machine though!

[litesong]

:cry_smile:

I'll be putting away my precious Festiva for the winter, and bringing out my Ranger. (

In western Washington I drive my Festiva all year round. & now that I discovered 100% pure(ethanol-free) gasoline, I have less mpg drop during the winter, than with 10% ethanol blends.