I bought the neighbour's '95 awd Aerostar GTRV camper van.
Outfitted originally by Lulu Island campers in Richmond BC Canada, before they were bought by gtrv.

No chassis rust, but left rocker crushed by ford dealer hoisting it, and not fixed well by them.

 

can you drive it with the top up?

 

You can, but I wouldn't recommend it

 

Lucky guy.I've been wanting to do this with mine. The forum has hammered by me with vs conversion stuff. The van is close to vs size. But the vw is about 1 1/2 foot longer. I had swing away tire carriers and other goodies I wanted to install. The ranger guys have a lot of info for the transfer case swap.the front diff is carp. It will come apart. You can install a real Dana 28th in it. We ha e a hybrid junker.keep in touch

 

I had a '78 vw camper years ago, and have been looking at vanagon westys, but they've gone stupid in price. I've never seen an Aerostar camper before; maybe just wasn't paying attention. This GTRV conversion is nice, and I'm looking forward to making it a bit of a 4x4, but a mild one; probably 215/75x14 tires, max.

 

COOL have fun with that. Drive that with pride!

 

MORE PICS!!

inside

 

[QUOTE=davran;17495672]I've never seen an Aerostar camper before; maybe just wasn't paying attention.
me either.id like to have a kombi too but the price is through the roof.

 

Ok, a few more pics of the interior:

 

Thanks for the pics and making me cry. I wish my van look that cool. Mine is zero rust but needs tlc upkeep. I bought it off the original owner with 153 on the clock. And i need major service. Just my 2 cents I measured the back bumper of our van and called go westy. A Westfield swing away tire mount with a ladder is the same size as ours. I got a brand new real mig welder I haven't used yet. I'm holding off UNTILL i replace my transfer case. I drawled up plans for a poptop hard side roof sleeper. I might make instead of spending 2 grand for a tent. Thanks again ill be dreaming tonight.

 

I know I lucked-out finding this. I forgot to take a pic of the top bed. I'd like to know more about that swing-away tire mount.

 

Interesting how that narrow bench seat is "phased". The normal one would be mounted against the driver's side, but this one is against the passenger side. It must be a custom made configuration just for this type of construction.

 

A couple pics of the top bed, but not very good ones, unfortunately.

 

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I'll check it out.