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Behold, the '98 Ford Aerostar
Submitted 5 weeks ago by simplejack@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
bulwark@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Lofty goals, but you don’t choose the Aerostar. The Aerostar chooses you.
tempest@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
It’s time to move on, all the cool kids are driving wind stars now
Thteven@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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
wjrii@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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.
ChrisMcMillan@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
All manner of things… ours had the nickname “fuck truck”…
Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 5 weeks 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.
Eheran@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Smoke from the car or your mom?
Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
A legitimate question. The smoke was from my mom.
BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 5 weeks ago
This is what peak masculinity would drive every day.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
married man.
married man.
drives around in a minivan.
SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Mom, can we get a shuttle craft?
No honey, we have a shuttle craft at home.
The shuttle craft at home…
seadogblue@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
What a beaut. Always thought they kinda looked like a sperm without a tail.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
…wut
toddestan@lemm.ee 5 weeks 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.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 5 weeks 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.
Numenor@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Wait what happened to you in the back seat of the blazer?
akwd169@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Went there to get creamed, I’m assuming it’s some sort of bukkake situation or maybe just sunlotion
modifier@lemmy.ca 5 weeks 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.
darvocet@infosec.pub 5 weeks ago
She’s majestic.
francisfordpoopola@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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.
KingGordon@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The original pussy wagon.
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 5 weeks ago
Why does this vehicle look like it has downs syndrome?
ramble81@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Thing was built on an F150 chassis and always felt solid. Unlike the later Windstar.
BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The wheel to car ratio…
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 5 weeks 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.
lemming741@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I think it being based on a truck qualifies it as a van, no mini. Maybe compact van?
Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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
BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Interesting! If you run across it again I’d love to see it.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I need one of these for the drive shaft lol
lemming741@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Stangbro!
It’s hard to find them at the junkyard that haven’t been trashed by the forklifts
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Nah, just T5 swapping something. Turns out Aerostar driveshaft is almost a perfect slot-in for a Volvo 940 Turbo
jdeath@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
i liked to call it the Ford Fordstar
cheddar@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
That’s not the '98 Ford Aerostar. That’s the glorious '98 Ford Aerostar.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
‘98 only had the Windstar. Did you mean ‘89?
lack@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I miss seeing those on the road. Name just fuckin rocks.
4oreman@lemy.lol 5 weeks ago
I don’t think they make this anymore?
bruhduh@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
He skipped leg day
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 5 weeks 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.
Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Compare it to the first Renault Espace from 1984:
Ydna@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
My first vehicle 🥺 mine was green and had a 2 foot extension, room for activities!
pooberbee@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
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Someone is lying
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Maybe that’s why it’s a shitpost lol
pooberbee@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Actually I have very fond memories of my family’s old Aerostar.
simplejack@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
This guy minivans
Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
I minivanz
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