this is whats left of my 1994 aerostar after the salt got her but she will be getting rebuilt














and just for the sake of it my buddys f250

 

How sad!

Is that an integrated air dam on the front bumper cover?

(For efficiency sake, I hope nobody following up to this posting encloses copies of your pictures, as good as they are.)

 

yes and it a pita to take off too

 

bad case of road salt cancer. couldn't see myself tackling that one.

the Hwy management idiots here in Wa. St. are talking about starting to use road salt again after years of only using sand combined with the new deicers. We have one heavy snow winter and they go off the deep end.

makes the auto body shop owners rich and resale value on a 5 year old rig worthless

road salt is hard on everything. radiators, electrical wiring, alternators. adds 25% in extra labor costs for any suspension/frame work

 

lot of work.... cutting, welding, painting..... ouh... we will be glad to see pics of work to be done!

 

i did a frame insepction today and beacuse some a-hole vandilized it and popped the tire its been sitting ont he frame and now has big rust holes and there too big and too many to fix

 

well after more research its not as bad as i thought and is fixable

 

good luck
replace all the steel and flex brake lines. road salt kills brake lines and makes rigs dangerous

my boat trailer brake lines looked like swiss cheese after a few years of dunking the boat in the salt chuck Pacific here.
all stainless and super high pressure double strength rubber flex now

buy a cutting torch, gonna need it.

 

it should be fun, im planning on TT'ing it, and rebuild the tired 3.0L with go fast stuff

 

can't beat the old reliable high fuel mileage 3L. one of the best engines Ford ever built in the US.

gas is headed back up to $3+ by summer.

 

i live in canada, so $3 for you is $1 for me which is pretty expensive, its at 70cents right now

 

I sent you an e-mail. I have extra front end parts and they are the same color scheme. Pics om my site which is linked below.

Later Man...

 

well this will be the offical build thread for it, progress will be slow as i dont ahve a garage, and its sitting at my mothers work and i only got here every few weekends, but it should be cool when done.

 

good project! wanna see result soon!