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Ford Festiva

Victoria Day

May 22nd, 2011
by Jordon Cooper.
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  Our Ford Festiva (now SGI’s Ford Festiva) had an eventful long weekend.   The damage is stunning but no one was hurt.  The only thing we need to deal with is that the set of keys were totally eaten by the dash.  We’ll see if we can get them out at SGI’s Salvage Yard on [...]

The bumpy road to the future goes through Saskatoon

Mar 8th, 2011
by Jordon Cooper.
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Barack Obama is said to be thinking about tapping the United States Strategic Petroleum Reserve.  For those of you who have have never heard of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, here is Wikipedia The US SPR is the largest emergency supply in the world with the current capacity to hold up to 727 million barrels (115,600,000 [...]

Weekend

Jun 5th, 2010
by Jordon Cooper.
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The weekend started off poorly.  Wendy and I picked up the Festiva last night from our mechanic.  The bill was well below what I thought it would be which is a good thing.  As I was heading home, some moron ran a red and to avoid the collision, I swerved and hit the curb.  Saskatoon’s [...]

1993 Ford Festiva

Feb 1st, 2010
by Jordon Cooper.
13 comments

I bought a 1993 Ford Festiva today from Darren Friesen.  It looks nowhere nearly as cool as this one (it looks good but what is the resale value on a redone Ford Festiva?) but it’s okay, gets obscenely good gas mileage.  Sadly it isn’t one of the seven SHOgun’s but it is good enough for [...]