me too! as of monday of last week, i am a new proud owner of a '90 ford festiva. woohoo.....talk about style! well maybe not but it was only a thousand bux, have all service records, 63k on the ode, gets 40mpg, 1.2l i-4 = 63hp (yeah!), 5-speed, no a/c, power nuttin. the girly man i bought it from dips chocolate (hint hint), so i'm pretty sure it wasn't abused.... at least not mechanicaly, i hope.
after putting 27k on the ty in the past year and a half, i am glad i have this POS to take me to work and back everyday i work 25 miles from home. i used to fill up the ty twice, sometimes three times a week with 91 octane. now i top off my 9 gallon tank with 87, only once a week! this saves me about 50 bucks a week......thats 200 a month!
by adding the festiva as my primary source of transportation to my current policy, my insurance payments went down ten bucks a month. the money i save here isn't anything to brag about, but worth mentioning. at least my payments didn't go up.
now the ty stays on the driveway covered up and waits to be driven on the weekends. the festiva, on the otherhand, stays at the curb and gets nailed by the sprinklers every morning.
now i have an even better reason to look forward to saturdays!
hmm.....i see great things happening to the ty in the near future....now that i can afford it.