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Behold, the '98 Ford Aerostar

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Submitted ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨simplejack@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • pooberbee@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Image

    Someone is lying

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    • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maybe that’s why it’s a shitpost lol

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      • pooberbee@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Actually I have very fond memories of my family’s old Aerostar.

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    • simplejack@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This guy minivans

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      • Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I minivanz

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  • Gingerlegs@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is my desktop at work. I like to let my co-workers know I’ve still got a dream I’m working towards

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    • bulwark@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lofty goals, but you don’t choose the Aerostar. The Aerostar chooses you.

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    • tempest@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s time to move on, all the cool kids are driving wind stars now

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  • Thteven@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I had a lot of fun with one of these when I was a teenager. Trying to do donuts backwards, off-roading through the woods chasing after my friends that were on dirt bikes, taking the back seats out to fit all manner of things inside…

    I think about the only thing it didn’t do was get me laid lmao

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    • wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My first car was its less stylish GM frienemy, the Chevy Astro. Good pep from the torquey compact pickup engine (as long as you had completely normal and dry roads, otherwise it was fishtail city), the versatility to take out the middle row for maximum mailbox vandalism efficiency (in and out like the MF’in A-Team!), and the forward visibility of Wonder Woman’s invisible jet.

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    • ChrisMcMillan@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      All manner of things… ours had the nickname “fuck truck”…

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  • Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My mom had a red 1991, and I puked in it a ton. I remember her yelling at me “I opened the window, all the smoke is going out the window what are you complaining about?”. Long smokey drives that made me so car sick.

    Just seeing one gives me the queezies.

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    • Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Smoke from the car or your mom?

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      • Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        A legitimate question. The smoke was from my mom.

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  • BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is what peak masculinity would drive every day.

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    • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      married man.

      married man.

      drives around in a minivan.

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  • SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Mom, can we get a shuttle craft?

    No honey, we have a shuttle craft at home.

    The shuttle craft at home…

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  • seadogblue@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What a beaut. Always thought they kinda looked like a sperm without a tail.

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    • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      …wut

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  • toddestan@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Besides there being no 1998 Aerostar, this is one of the early models. The badges on the front fenders went away after the first few model years, and the later ones have composite headlights rather than the sealed beams.

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  • altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My family had one of those even I was growing up. It was a late 80s or early 90s model. Same colors as that though. It was a pretty sweet ride. We went from being creamed in the back seat of a blazer and sharing a seatbelt to having our own seats.

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    • Numenor@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wait what happened to you in the back seat of the blazer?

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      • akwd169@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Went there to get creamed, I’m assuming it’s some sort of bukkake situation or maybe just sunlotion

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  • modifier@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have to say I found this to look ugly and dated when it first came out. Now I’m kinda feeling it. Cute little wheels.

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  • darvocet@infosec.pub ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    She’s majestic.

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  • francisfordpoopola@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think we went through 3 trannys on one within the warranty period… Great ride with sliding windows and sliding door. Good times. I recall my dad showing me the engine under the hood. I don’t have any idea how someone worked on it. It was horribly crammed in.

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  • KingGordon@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The original pussy wagon.

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  • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why does this vehicle look like it has downs syndrome?

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  • ramble81@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thing was built on an F150 chassis and always felt solid. Unlike the later Windstar.

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  • BallShapedMan@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The wheel to car ratio…

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    • altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think it’s just the photo. It was based on a truck, so it was a pretty hefty minivan. Plus cars these days have ridiculously sized wheels.

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      • lemming741@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think it being based on a truck qualifies it as a van, no mini. Maybe compact van?

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    • Gingerlegs@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Recently read or saw in a video, the tire tech hadn’t advanced to the point we really are today.

      It sounds funny but they couldn’t make the walls strong enough (and cheap enough) for typical production vehicles like today (if my memory is correct!) that’s why today cars have much “shorter” looking tires

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      • BallShapedMan@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Interesting! If you run across it again I’d love to see it.

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  • PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I need one of these for the drive shaft lol

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    • lemming741@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Stangbro!

      It’s hard to find them at the junkyard that haven’t been trashed by the forklifts

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      • PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Nah, just T5 swapping something. Turns out Aerostar driveshaft is almost a perfect slot-in for a Volvo 940 Turbo

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  • jdeath@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    i liked to call it the Ford Fordstar

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  • cheddar@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s not the '98 Ford Aerostar. That’s the glorious '98 Ford Aerostar.

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  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    ‘98 only had the Windstar. Did you mean ‘89?

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  • lack@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I miss seeing those on the road. Name just fuckin rocks.

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  • 4oreman@lemy.lol ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t think they make this anymore?

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  • bruhduh@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He skipped leg day

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  • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My family had an Aerostar when I was a teenager. I called it the road cow, partly because of how it handled and partly because the power steering fluid pump would make a very moo-like sound when you turned the wheels sharply.

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  • Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Compare it to the first Renault Espace from 1984:

    …wikimedia.org/…/500px-Renault_Espace1_1984_front…

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  • Ydna@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My first vehicle 🥺 mine was green and had a 2 foot extension, room for activities!

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