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[–] pooberbee@lemmy.ml 33 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Maybe that's why it's a shitpost lol

[–] pooberbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] ryan213@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

So many road trips on ours!

[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 points 3 months ago
[–] Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] bulwark@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

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

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

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

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[–] Thteven@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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 11 points 3 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.

[–] ChrisMcMillan@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

All manner of things... ours had the nickname "fuck truck"...

[–] Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Smoke from the car or your mom?

[–] Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A legitimate question. The smoke was from my mom.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Wow, that is so really terrible. I was expecting the car. Sorry to hear that. How is your relationship to her?

[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

This is a hilarious reaction to anyone older than 40.

times really have changed a lot (for the better).

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[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is what peak masculinity would drive every day.

married man.

married man.

drives around in a minivan.

[–] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months 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 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago
[–] toddestan@lemm.ee 8 points 3 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.

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] akwd169@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

No no I believe he means he was created in the back seat of a blazer

[–] modifier@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 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.

[–] darvocet@infosec.pub 6 points 3 months ago

She’s majestic.

[–] francisfordpoopola@lemmy.world 5 points 3 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.

[–] KingGordon@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

The original pussy wagon.

[–] absGeekNZ 4 points 3 months ago

Why does this vehicle look like it has downs syndrome?

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

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

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The wheel to car ratio....

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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 2 points 3 months ago

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

[–] Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I need one of these for the drive shaft lol

[–] lemming741@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Stangbro!

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

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[–] lack@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

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

[–] 4oreman@lemy.lol 3 points 3 months ago

I don't think they make this anymore?

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

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

[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

He skipped leg day

[–] jdeath@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

i liked to call it the Ford Fordstar

[–] cheddar@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

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

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 2 points 3 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.

[–] Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 months ago
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