Ford Festiva - very solid project $450

My sister needs to find a new home for her Festiva. If you don't know about these they are one of the smallest, lightest cars of their era and can easily take popular Mazda engine swaps (BPT, etc.) This one is bone stock with a mighty 1.3 and a 5-speed.

This was her daily driver for years... It was last registered in October 2007 and was stored in a PAVED parking lot with good drainage for most of the time since then. It has only recently (this summer) been moved to the grassy area. This is not a "field car."

The bodyshell is in really good condition including underneath - it was oil sprayed every winter to protect against rust and she took good care of it - but some rust is starting to develop, mostly on removable panels like the doors and hatch. It did run when parked but she stopped driving it due to a leaky fuel tank which will need to be replaced. It hasn't been started in a couple years and the battery is toast, but we have spares on hand for testing purposes...

Red paint is faded, typical Ford/Mazda '90s red... The interior is in decent shape and not nasty, as you can see from the pictures. It has 140 000 km on it.

The build date is Sept. 1992, I don't know how easy this would be to import to the US as it has no airbag or strangle-belts. I believe the cutoff date is 1993?

Located near London, Ont. About 2 hours either way from Detroit or Toronto...

If interested, post here, send PM, email me, or call us at 519 472-6711 or 519 317-6790. Ask for me or Charlie (my dad.)

Price is in the title, but just in case... asking $450 OBO.

cool car. good thing is you are too far away and in another country. that makes it impossible for me to buy.

Damn, that is one minty Festiva for its age. Were the wife not already mad at me for a certain flame painted festiva that shall remain nameless.... I'd probably go get this one.

Yeah, that festy is quite clean, most in that price range look like a family of pigs lived in it.

Chris Rummel

Sold? I have to go to windsor this week

Do you have any idea how hard it would be to import it to the US? Did we not have someone this past summer who wanted to import a more recent car into the US and ran into problems. Agreed, fun car.

Heh, I think you're talking about me- I was attempting to import a Cosmo from Vancouver. I think it would be a lot less problematic with a Festiva, as they were actually made for sale in the US. My biggest problem was getting the car over the border, as I'd need a canadian with possession of the title to drive it to the US, and sell it to me, title intact on US soil. By default, I have an automatic 3 days of car insurance, and 10 days to get the title transferred, which means I'd have to get it home, get it inspected, and titled as a kit car, in about a week and a half. It got a little more complicated as apparently MN recently passed laws that for the kit car rule- you need itemized statements, and at LEAST three lines of sale prior to being able to title it. A friend of mine is having the same problem with his gc8 right now.... we won't discuss how we plan to get that thing liscensed.

Going the check the CT (OMG) laws regarding this....as onemust have at least temp plates, and before that proof of insurance on the vehicle....time for reading and talking with the DMV...

POI doesn't need to be ON the vehicle, at least in MN. All you need to show is that you have current car insurance, and you get 3 days to add said vehicle to the policy. in the case of a dealer, they'll write you temps on the spot. Most states will grant you 21 day'ers at the DMV with the POI and title in hand, if you do the transfer at the same time.