• Gingerlegs@lemmy.world
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    3 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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    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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          Wow, that is so really terrible. I was expecting the car. Sorry to hear that. How is your relationship to her?

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            This is a hilarious reaction to anyone older than 40.

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

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              Yep, riding in my moms 76 Honda civic, my mom would tell me (and my sister) to shut up when complaining about the smoke. Also the lit embers that would enevitably fling back into the back seat still hold some early memories.

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                I saw a post recently along the lines of “in the 80 we only had 2 smells. Old cigarette and fresh cigarette.” not wrong that :D

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              I think that is the reaction of someone who’s parents did not smoke. Why would that not happen today?

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                I’m sure this happens today too, the difference is that the question “how is your relationship to her?” would have made no sense in 1980. Back then this was just normal and would not automatically lead to a bad relationship :)

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            Oh my sweet summer child. The van was brand new at the time.

            The whole world used to smell like cigarettes. When the server at a restaurant asked if you wanted smoking or non smoking section, they used to be right next to each other.

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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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    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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        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

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    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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    I think we went through 3 removeds 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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      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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      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