Hot Rod

My apartment building has a garage that everyone shares. There are two entrances, and it extends beyond the building, leaving one space directly behind the middle of the building which is big enough for a car, but which is hard to get if all the real spots are taken. As a result, the owners of the building use it to store stuff like a big, dead pickup and piles of trash. Well, today along with their pile of trash, they have parked their Ford Festiva. I hadn’t noticed up until today just how awesome their particular Festiva is. It has a spoiler. A SPOILER!!!

In my experience, most vehicles, even people-powered vehicles like bikes and skateboards, need spoilers more than a Festiva does. Festivas have little tiny wheels. They have little tiny engines. They are little tiny cars. They have trouble going 70mph.

A Festiva engine has 63 hp. To give you an idea of the scale, my underpowered, 4-cylinder Camry has 108hp, the Model T from 1932 had 65hp, and the Festiva has 63hp. What I’m getting at here is that the Festiva isn’t in much danger of its rear wheels coming off the ground in racing situations. Anyhow, here are some pictures of the ridiculous contraption.



Oh, and as a second bit of weirdness, the car is parked perpendicularly to the other cars in the garage. Maybe it’s parked thusly to best showcase its awesomeness.