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.
He skipped leg day
That’s not the '98 Ford Aerostar. That’s the glorious '98 Ford Aerostar.
The wheel to car ratio…
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
Interesting! If you run across it again I’d love to see it.
Sorry, you said wheel but I assumed you were referring to the tires.
I’ll see if I can find it because I found it super interesting as well, haha
I should have been clearer, I meant the wheel and tire combo. They look like they belong on a much smaller vehicle. And I was alive when this car was new and my memory of it doesn’t look like this lol.
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.
I think it being based on a truck qualifies it as a van, no mini. Maybe compact van?
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.
Wait what happened to you in the back seat of the blazer?
Went there to get creamed, I’m assuming it’s some sort of bukkake situation or maybe just sunlotion but I don’t think the back seat of a blazer is as versatile as the ford aerostars so probably the first thing
No no I believe he means he was created in the back seat of a blazer
This is what peak masculinity would drive every day.
married man.
married man.
drives around in a minivan.
My first vehicle 🥺 mine was green and had a 2 foot extension, room for activities!
Mom, can we get a shuttle craft?
No honey, we have a shuttle craft at home.
The shuttle craft at home…
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.
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
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.
All manner of things… ours had the nickname “fuck truck”…
I need one of these for the drive shaft lol
Stangbro!
It’s hard to find them at the junkyard that haven’t been trashed by the forklifts
Nah, just T5 swapping something. Turns out Aerostar driveshaft is almost a perfect slot-in for a Volvo 940 Turbo
I don’t think they make this anymore?
I miss seeing those on the road. Name just fuckin rocks.
Compare it to the first Renault Espace from 1984:
The original pussy wagon.
