I have to fess up: Every time I see one of these late-1970s Ford Fiestas, I get the urge to hack it up into a mini-ute like I did when I was a teenager. Why? Why not! Ford’s globally-successful mini front-driver is bare-bones, basic and honestly, a hoot for a micro car. Cut the roof just behind the windshield and along the lines of the bottom of the quarter window, and volia, useful trucklet. But what our man Scott Liggett found at the kickoff party for Tour Nebraska, a 600-mile, two-day driving event isn’t a trucklet. In fact, we’re working on trying to figure out just what, exactly, this green Fiesta is supposed to be. Mini surf wagon? Homage to the Citroën Méhari? Funky 1970s golf cart? Whatever your pleasure, you’ll be rolling in…a Fiesta. Style? That’s questionable, though we dig the turbine wheels. Speed? Trust us…nope. Comfort? Depends on your own size…if you are well under six foot and don’t suffer from lower back issues, you’ll be fine! But our question to you: what would it take for you to road-trip this little beast around for a few hundred miles? A Klondike bar? A gold bar? Or would you hop right in and head off before making a single demand?
I would actually have to be dead to go anywhere within 5 miles of this sad heap of shit…..
More glass in the new roof and get a micro popemobile.
I was in until I saw Alvin and the Chipmunks on the roof.
Me too; the though of having them perform the soundtrack to cruising that thing just ruined it for me. I was initially thinking a Klondike bar would be about right (I love chocolate and have a rather underdeveloped sense of shame), but the more I look at it, the worse it gets. And more uncomfortable looking it gets.
It looks like the pointy end of a turd.
For some reason I want to put the back half of a DJ jeep on it… Kinda like Fiesta meets Filipino Jeepnee meets Kyber Pass jingle truck.
I live in CA, I’d drive it to work for gas and a fee to fund my real projects… $200-400 a month for 5yrs would do nicely.
It made it through day one of 325 miles today. Day two tomorrow.
Perfect candidate for the bowling ball canon Farmtruck and Azn built. Can I light the wick?
It’s like a Pebbles and Bam-Bam field car.
Tow it from behind for one hundred miles.
Then, you’ll have enough coiled spring energy for this toy to ride free for the six hundred.