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The story of the resurrection of a ‘90
I. History
II. Paint
III. Engine
IV. Exhaust
V. Misc
I. History
This is the story of a ’90 L Plus. The story starts almost 5 years ago in the summer of 2005, when my family and I were visiting Lynchburg, VA to look for houses in the area, since my dad had just got a job down here (at that time we were located in PA). In our wanderings around we visited the local airport and spotted this nice looking teal 90... of course, being the festy nut I was even then, I snapped a few pictures as we drove by.
(The time stamp on my camera was off, it really was the summer of 05 not 03
)
Now fast forward about another year or so. There was a house being built just a few miles from where we now live just south of Lynchburg, VA... and I began to see a very familiar looking teal L Plus! I would wave as I passed etc, but never really got a chance to talk to him. A while later a dark blue ’93 moved into the same house, and I noticed the teal car had moved to a spot in a field towards the bottom of his property. It didn’t look like it had been wreaked or anything, but it was obviously just sitting and he was now driving the dark blue festy.
A few months later in the fall of 06 I wrecked Skeeter for the first time, and due to the frame damage etc I thought it would be a good idea to get another body and transplant my B6/brakeswap/etc into the new body... so I stopped by this guys house and tried to buy the 90 from him. He had been using it as a parts car for his blue 90 and said he wasn’t interested in selling it, so I ended up getting Skeeter repaired and the 90 continued to sit in the field below the house. Sometime during the summer of the next year (07) the festivas moved out and I didn’t see them again until towards the end of 08, when I noticed a craigslist add for two festys – a running dark blue 93 and a teal 90 parts car! Right away I sent the guy (Jason) a message and went to look at the cars, bought them both brought them home. While talking to him I found out that he worked at the airport etc, so I was sure it was the same teal festy I had seen in 05. He bought it back in 93 (?) as his first car and drove it for years; it sounded like he really didn’t want to part with it because he had had it for so long. The reason it was parked is that he had some issues and ended up replacing the head, and forgot he filled it up with straight water; it froze and supposedly cracked the block... I didn’t care too much; B3’s aren’t really my style anyway. I didn’t tell him I had been stalking his car for the past several years
My driveway after bringing both those home (I already had Skeeter and a 91 teal parts car from Paul):
The dark blue 93 (which was a freaking amazing car and I almost wish I had kept it) is now Will’s (motoxpress). The teal festy just sat for a while waiting for me to do something with it. Then in the summer of 09 one of my friends was looking for his first car, and he loved my car (I taught him how to drive stick in it etc, and he thought it would be neat to have a festy too). So we started talking about it, and decided that we would fix up the 90 for him...
I. History
II. Paint
III. Engine
IV. Exhaust
V. Misc
I. History
This is the story of a ’90 L Plus. The story starts almost 5 years ago in the summer of 2005, when my family and I were visiting Lynchburg, VA to look for houses in the area, since my dad had just got a job down here (at that time we were located in PA). In our wanderings around we visited the local airport and spotted this nice looking teal 90... of course, being the festy nut I was even then, I snapped a few pictures as we drove by.
(The time stamp on my camera was off, it really was the summer of 05 not 03
)Now fast forward about another year or so. There was a house being built just a few miles from where we now live just south of Lynchburg, VA... and I began to see a very familiar looking teal L Plus! I would wave as I passed etc, but never really got a chance to talk to him. A while later a dark blue ’93 moved into the same house, and I noticed the teal car had moved to a spot in a field towards the bottom of his property. It didn’t look like it had been wreaked or anything, but it was obviously just sitting and he was now driving the dark blue festy.
A few months later in the fall of 06 I wrecked Skeeter for the first time, and due to the frame damage etc I thought it would be a good idea to get another body and transplant my B6/brakeswap/etc into the new body... so I stopped by this guys house and tried to buy the 90 from him. He had been using it as a parts car for his blue 90 and said he wasn’t interested in selling it, so I ended up getting Skeeter repaired and the 90 continued to sit in the field below the house. Sometime during the summer of the next year (07) the festivas moved out and I didn’t see them again until towards the end of 08, when I noticed a craigslist add for two festys – a running dark blue 93 and a teal 90 parts car! Right away I sent the guy (Jason) a message and went to look at the cars, bought them both brought them home. While talking to him I found out that he worked at the airport etc, so I was sure it was the same teal festy I had seen in 05. He bought it back in 93 (?) as his first car and drove it for years; it sounded like he really didn’t want to part with it because he had had it for so long. The reason it was parked is that he had some issues and ended up replacing the head, and forgot he filled it up with straight water; it froze and supposedly cracked the block... I didn’t care too much; B3’s aren’t really my style anyway. I didn’t tell him I had been stalking his car for the past several years
My driveway after bringing both those home (I already had Skeeter and a 91 teal parts car from Paul):
The dark blue 93 (which was a freaking amazing car and I almost wish I had kept it) is now Will’s (motoxpress). The teal festy just sat for a while waiting for me to do something with it. Then in the summer of 09 one of my friends was looking for his first car, and he loved my car (I taught him how to drive stick in it etc, and he thought it would be neat to have a festy too). So we started talking about it, and decided that we would fix up the 90 for him...
lol jk... looks like it was a fun build 
good job 
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