[speaker001:] [Clicking] [talking].
[speaker002:] So, what sort of car are you interested in getting next?
[speaker001:] Well, actually, I love the car I have. I have a Chrysler LeBaron convertible. And
[speaker002:] Ah.
[speaker001:] I love it. And I would get another one in a minute. Unless I could afford what I really like which would be a red Ferrari or, you know, a little Corvette or something like that. And that's what would influence my decision to change because I like a really sporty car. And I'd love an expensive one but I probably,
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] can never afford it so [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Uh, well I understand and can sympathize with that because I also enjoy driving performance automobiles. Uh, I currently have an eighty-seven, five liter Mustang G T
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] that I've done a bunch of modifications to, to make it, uh, handle and perform better,
[speaker001:] [Noise].
[speaker002:] and I suspect if I were to be able to get another car where object was, uh, the best car I could get regardless of money, [inhaling] uh, I probably would be tempted by something along the lines of a Lotus or possibly a Ferrari.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh. Yeah. Well, I'm a nurse here and we have a doctor at this hospital that has a beautiful new red Ferrari.
[speaker002:] A, a three twenty-eight G T S?
[speaker001:] And I couldn't tell you but it's just beautiful. And I go out and I love to touch it but I can't even do that because [LAUGHTER] of the alarm.
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER] You just go hunting?
[speaker001:] So, I just look at it a lot [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Go out and lust after it.
[speaker001:] Really [LAUGHTER]. Exactly. But it sure is a pretty thing [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] So have you had the opportunity to drive a Ferrari?
[speaker001:] No. I'm working on it [LAUGHTER]. No, I really haven't, no, huh-uh [talking]. I did
[speaker002:] .
[speaker001:] test drive a Corvette last year. Maybe the year before. It was brand new, white, it was like a big marshmallow. When you sat in the seats, they adjusted to fit around you.
[speaker002:] uh.
[speaker001:] I mean they came in and up and out and I mean, they did whatever and, and we went for a test drive in that and I was able to open that up pretty good and that was really fun. And I wanted it, but I had a choice of that or my house and I thought that I'd continue,
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] to live in my house [LAUGHTER] so.
[speaker002:] Yeah, there, there's something about having a place to live, I don't know.
[speaker001:] Yeah, you know, it's just necessary. And I did, I thought well a tent wouldn't be bad but probably not practical.
[speaker002:] Could sleep in the back of the 'vette.
[speaker001:] Yeah, right [LAUGHTER]. So,
[speaker002:] I find that, uh, that the Corvettes are, are becoming really, really nice cars.
[speaker001:] They are, they're pretty aren't they lately [NOISE].
[speaker002:] Yeah. And
[speaker001:] They really are.
[speaker002:] they, they've improved,
[speaker001:] [Baby crying].
[speaker002:] the performance and the suspension such that they're actually a lot of fun to drive.
[speaker001:] Really.
[speaker002:] It's not like driving a, a Winnebago or something.
[speaker001:] Oh, no [LAUGHTER]. No, no. See, I'm not into station wagons and vans and things that people are really buying now and [NOISE] they go isn't that a nice van and I go, um.
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER] Not really, you know. How about
[speaker002:] Nice.
[speaker001:] a Greyhound bus [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Yeah. Nice isn't the word I'd choose. Maybe practical.
[speaker001:] Yeah. I mean that, you know.
[speaker002:] Isn't that a practical van.
[speaker001:] There's some that are prettier than others and yeah, the new type is prettier than what their, they used to look like but I sure don't think it's attractive, you know. It's not like, like driving a little sports car.
[speaker002:] Yeah. It, it's very hard to find something practical that's also attractive.
[speaker001:] Yeah. I don't think that happens so, but I, I love mine, so, and I, I bought it because I drove a friend's in Hawaii and I just went home and I walked in and I picked it out and he said take it home and bring it back if you want to, and I never did. I just went back and signed the papers [LAUGHTER] and I knew nothing about my car when I got it. Nothing. I didn't know how anything worked.
[speaker002:] Well, so it was a completely new experience for you. And I'm sure you enjoyed every minute of it.
[speaker001:] Yeah. And I've had it, it's almost three years actually. And I've, I still love it. I put the top down everywhere I go. I timed it when I first got it and it took twenty min-, I mean twenty seconds and so, I figured there was nowhere I was to late to go that I didn't have twenty more seconds.
[speaker002:] Right.
[speaker001:] So.
[speaker002:] And, and you couldn't get, how long does it take to go back up? About the same time.
[speaker001:] Twenty seconds, yeah. That's all it takes. I mean, it's just a button, that's it. You
[speaker002:] Yeah, so [NOISE].
[speaker001:] release it right [NOISE] at the top, so you don't have to
[speaker002:] So you won't get,
[speaker001:] get out or anything.
[speaker002:] Yeah and twenty seconds you probably won't get caught in anything too substantial.
[speaker001:] Well I did, actually. Last week going to the airport, I just hit a downpour and I was on a highway going like eighty.
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] So I really did. I mean [LAUGHTER] I was soaking wet. I thought I would drown [LAUGHTER] in the seconds that it took me to pull over [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] Whoops.
[speaker001:] But it all dried out, you know. Didn't
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] take long when the sun came out but [LAUGHTER] [sniffing] it was kind of funny. I'm sure people around me really enjoyed it [LAUGHTER] but,
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER] Oh. No I was just down in Austin last week and the weather was pretty nice too. So,
[speaker001:] Oh {C and } wasn't it pretty last week with the Bluebonnets and everything, yeah, yeah.
[speaker002:] With the Bluebonnets out, yeah. It really was. Yeah I decided that Austin is certainly someplace that I could handle living.
[speaker001:] [Noise] [someone is walking] Yeah. A lot of people say that and it's pretty far from where I live [talking].