Purchased for $1500.00 from a truck sales lot in Dallas, Texas. When I first saw it advertised on the internet, the dealer was asking $2450.00 out the door. Despite that high price, there was one thing that caught my attention from the very first time I saw the add, which was it was listed as having only 64,000 miles.

This Aerostar has a 3.0 liter V-6 vulcan engine with automatic transmission, rear wheel drive, 21.0 gallon tank, and 17 - 23 mpg, but this Aerostar is the short version without the two battery boxes on either side in the very rear. I would prefer the extended version, but since there were fewer of those manufactured, I will likely not be able to find another one.

When looking under the hood of this 1997 Aerostar, I found out that this engine does not have a distributor like the 1989 did, but instead has a six wire ignition coil. The whole in the rear of the engine, where the distributor would have been, now holds a timing sensor.