• Gingerlegs@lemmy.world
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    4 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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    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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      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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    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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    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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      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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          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

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            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.

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      Stangbro!

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

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

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

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