[speaker001:] okay Ron welcome to the net and uh what did you do about your last auto repair oh and might you say what kind of cars you have and so forth
[speaker002:] okay well Larry my last one unfortunately was a an expensive one because I had a brand new Lincoln Town Car and and
[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] a couple of ladies ran a stop light the lights weren't working properly it wasn't their fault but we they didn't run it we both had green and she hit me and did about eleven thousand dollars worth of damage to my car so
[speaker001:] my goodness gracious that's
[speaker002:] that was a huge repair bill
[speaker001:] well that's still not enough for a total is it
[speaker002:] I know I hated that
[speaker001:] to get it's a very expensive automobile
[speaker002:] so it wasn't enough to total it but that's my that's been my most uh expensive repair probably in the last year with the except of just service work because I buy a new car every two years and
[speaker001:] oh and do you buy one every two years
[speaker002:] well I travel a lot so you know uh this last one I leased so I don't know and I leased it on a twenty four month program it's the first time I've ever done that but I'll probably go back to buying them because I don't care to lease them
[speaker001:] uh-huh did this car have one of these expanding balloons or just are there normal safety belts in it that you had
[speaker002:] no it has the expanding balloons
[speaker001:] did that help you
[speaker002:] uh it they didn't go off
[speaker001:] they didn't go off
[speaker002:] no I guess we weren't going that sort of upset me we weren't going fast enough according when I called the dealership about it and called Ford Motor about it but no sir didn't go off uh we were it was a bad rainy dark dreary day and
[speaker001:] well what
[speaker002:] and the street lights
[speaker001:] but you were hit in the side weren't you
[speaker002:] yes
[speaker001:] that may be the problem you you might you may need to be hit from something the leaning towards the forward to uh activate it
[speaker002:] yes took off my whole front fender and hood and everything I tell you just
[speaker001:] my goodness
[speaker002:] took it all off it was uh uh my my doors were okay front and back and
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] but it did uh right eleven thousand dollars in damage it was a expensive then I get it back and two weeks after that I'm driving it in front of the local high school and some young man just wasn't paying any attention and runs in the back of me that's another twelve hundred dollars worth of damage so
[speaker001:] my goodness
[speaker002:] so I'm gonna get rid my twenty four months is up on this car I'm getting rid of this car
[speaker001:] I would think so that doesn't sound like you've got very good luck with that one
[speaker002:] my golly how about you Larry
[speaker001:] well I'm relatively fortunate about that uh here we somehow don't have many people run into us although at the beginning of each school season uh students move into town who are from big cities and they sort of drive kind of wild for about two three weeks then they finally settle down and realize that they don't have to drive that way here and uh that takes the strain out off of everyone that uh is driving a vehicle
[speaker002:] I understand
[speaker001:] and I find that the most of the repairs I have to do here is body damage due to the salt that we have to put on the road to uh take care of us in the winter time
[speaker002:] I understand
[speaker001:] uh I have a sixty nine Cougar and a seventy seven Pontiac so forth and I have to uh and I drive a Honda most of the time and I have to make sure that uh salt and so forth are kept off of it and once in a while we have to replace some of the plates in the bottom of it because it's rusted away
[speaker002:] sure well I understand that because I'm from West Virginia and we had the same thing up there continuously continuously salting the roads for snow
[speaker001:] uh-huh well I just I did I had this Cougar totally uh the body of it totally rebuilt uh to get some of the rusts that were in the fenders
[speaker002:] sure
[speaker001:] uh done and then it all repainted and then winter got here and so I put the cover over it then to keep the ice and snow off so I haven't had a chance to drive it very much but anyhow uh uh now are you gonna buy this next car or you going rent it a lease again
[speaker002:] no I'm gonna I'm gonna buy it Larry I don't like the rental I think I'm getting ready to retire myself and I'm going to I'm going to be you know driving a car for longer so I usually drive a car
[speaker001:] are you
[speaker002:] for three years and and anyway and
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] so but last couple cars I've only driven for two years so I'd leased this one for two years so I'll probably go back and buy one and uh this next car will probably be my retirement car
[speaker001:] well that's an awfully big one that uh that one that you had the Lincoln uh isn't it too large for normal town driving finding parking places and getting in and out the doors
[speaker002:] well no sir not really not really uh
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] no problem at all my wife and daughter we have uh two Toyotas in the family one Nissan and we have the Lincoln and uh the not really no problem there at all as finding as far as finding parking places it's it's convenient in that in that regard
[speaker001:] ah yeah well well that certainly would be a wonderful comfortable machine to take on long trips
[speaker002:] yes it is and I'm and I travel I'm like a traveling salesman don't travel a lot any more but uh when I do take it it is very comfortable to drive
[speaker001:] I'm I'm very much aware of that um-hum yes I'm sure it is because that's the way that I enjoy this Pontiac that I have it only has thirty eight thousand miles on it but it's very quiet and very smooth riding machine
[speaker002:] yes is that right well my wife's Toyota is soon to be four years old it only has doesn't even have thirty miles thirty thousand miles on it so gosh been much in such good shape that'll probably be an eight or ten year car
[speaker001:] um-hum do you do you feel that uh