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Hello, FordFestiva.com. After a couple months of lurking I've decided to add my 2 cents on the forums. This is my 1989 Festiva L, it's a Carb'd 4 Speed car with currently 193,6XX on the clock. I've owned my Festi for nearly 7 months and put a little over 6,000 miles since buying it, and it's been one of the best ownership experiences I've had so far (previous car being a Mercedes E420). I payed $300 for it on a whim and have gotten more than my moneys worth out of it. The car had a newish clutch (10k miles), tires had less than 5k miles on them, and by word of mouth was told that the motor was rebuilt at 98k miles. After 7 months of ownership I've spent less than a grand including the cost of the car and registering it, (not including gas/insurance obviously). It has its fair share of issues I plan on addressing, It idles rough due to an original rich-running carb, and it has the occasional sticky throttle and sometimes it decides that the headlights aren't going to turn on. Besides some small issues I've never had a serious problem with my Festy.
So far Mods I've done include:
Chalkboard painted bumpers (Pics and new thread coming soon)
Bosozoku Exhaust w/ cherrybomb glasspack
Fog lights (work in progress)
Bucket seats out of a Honda Prelude
FB RX7 steering wheel
Future Mods will be:
Cut Springs
14" wheels
1" spacers
Roof basket
Aspire brakes
5Spd trans
EFI conversion or EFI 1.3 Swap
And If I ever get really bored a 35 shot of nitrous.
I threw in some pics showing the car throughout my time having it, I'll get together some better more-up-to-date pics showing off all the exterior mods. any and all feedback is appreciated, I get plenty of thumbs up driving it around.
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So far Mods I've done include:
Chalkboard painted bumpers (Pics and new thread coming soon)
Bosozoku Exhaust w/ cherrybomb glasspack
Fog lights (work in progress)
Bucket seats out of a Honda Prelude
FB RX7 steering wheel
Future Mods will be:
Cut Springs
14" wheels
1" spacers
Roof basket
Aspire brakes
5Spd trans
EFI conversion or EFI 1.3 Swap
And If I ever get really bored a 35 shot of nitrous.
I threw in some pics showing the car throughout my time having it, I'll get together some better more-up-to-date pics showing off all the exterior mods. any and all feedback is appreciated, I get plenty of thumbs up driving it around.
20160131_225822.jpg20160310_100650.jpg20160313_165616.jpg20160131_233214.jpg20160202_164058.jpg
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