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OK, I have been searching for a Festiva for awhile, due to some Dr. related reasons... I went all over the state looking for the right one. After several wasted trips to Dallas and San Antonio, I got a return call from a guy in Austin about his festiva for $250 cash. I go with cash and tow bar ready to find this:
He said the rear suspension had issues and vibrated so bad the tire came apart and knocked the rear bumper off on that side and killed the tail light. He had replaced the battery and Alt and it just wouldn't charge the battery anymore. So other than the hail damage it has, she is clean compared to the others I had seen, so I paid and hooked up the towbar and headed home.
I took it for a bath, inspection, and window tint... here is what it looks like today:
I put a new tire on the rear, replaced the tail light, and fixed the bumper mounts, painted the lower half of the dash black, tried out a design on the driver's door panel(which it was junk to begin with), swapped in the map light from a tracer, swapped the inside door handles and the lock knobs from the tracer, changed the battery cable ends, changed air filter.
More of the dash will be going black, due to some glue burns when someone tried to glue the radio surround back on.
This is just a brief start on it, in the next couple weeks I am gonna try to add a trailer hitch, two more center caps, change out door panels, replace HEAVY rear glass with smoked lexan.
Here is a couple links to what I have been workin on before I got this fine little car:
This is my 88 Suzuki Samurai "Krawler"
This is my 89 "krawler hauler"
He said the rear suspension had issues and vibrated so bad the tire came apart and knocked the rear bumper off on that side and killed the tail light. He had replaced the battery and Alt and it just wouldn't charge the battery anymore. So other than the hail damage it has, she is clean compared to the others I had seen, so I paid and hooked up the towbar and headed home.
I took it for a bath, inspection, and window tint... here is what it looks like today:
I put a new tire on the rear, replaced the tail light, and fixed the bumper mounts, painted the lower half of the dash black, tried out a design on the driver's door panel(which it was junk to begin with), swapped in the map light from a tracer, swapped the inside door handles and the lock knobs from the tracer, changed the battery cable ends, changed air filter.
More of the dash will be going black, due to some glue burns when someone tried to glue the radio surround back on.
This is just a brief start on it, in the next couple weeks I am gonna try to add a trailer hitch, two more center caps, change out door panels, replace HEAVY rear glass with smoked lexan.
Here is a couple links to what I have been workin on before I got this fine little car:
This is my 88 Suzuki Samurai "Krawler"
This is my 89 "krawler hauler"
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