[speaker001:] uh yeah what what have you thought anything about another another car
[speaker002:] yes I have a nineteen eighty one Volvo station wagon with over a hundred and fifty thousand miles on it
[speaker001:] it's about time to start thinking isn't it
[speaker002:] yes and so uh I've actually been looking around and then then things got too busy and it's too complicated out there so
[speaker001:] isn't it a pain to look for cars I I hate it I really do as a matter of fact I've got my car is uh I have a an eighty seven Lincoln
[speaker002:] yes yes uh-huh
[speaker001:] and uh I just put it in the shop about oh two weeks ago and just spent about twelve hundred dollars on it I decided to get everything that's wrong with it fixed new brakes new shocks new mufflers and all that because I'm going to keep it till it dies
[speaker002:] well that that's kind of uh I was the brakes didn't feel like they were working and uh people uh people were saying you know don't you get rid of it every three years and everything and I really was thinking about that then it was like get a loan then you've got to do these you've got to investigate it you've got to check all these things does it have that you you know you can't just go to this dealer you really need to check them all and you can't fall in love with one you've got to be able to turn your back on and then by the time everyone had given me their advice I thought you know this car turns on every morning I think I'll just keep going
[speaker001:] I know it well and the other thing is too uh it it's just I mean the the prices the way the prices have gone up in the past four or five years is uh it just unbelievable
[speaker002:] yes yes right no that's right and and uh the only thing I need is uh I'm not really into cars so I just need something to get me somewhere
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] and I wanted an air bag I thought that would really be a nice thing to have Volvos are safe cars the other thing is I drive all parts of town
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and all of sudden the idea of driving in a newish looking car made me much more vulnerable to something happening to it than the car I'm in
[speaker001:] uh-huh I understand that I I do I understand that
[speaker002:] so so so again I think well now wait a minute besides which I get a more expensive I mean a you know a new car I pay more in taxes uh-huh and insurance
[speaker001:] insurance insurance yeah and right right well I've I really have uh you know like I say I I feel like I have made a commitment now to drive the car that I've got which you know and and and after I will admit after I had those repairs made on it I felt like you know it felt like it was new again
[speaker002:] um-hum like a good car right
[speaker001:] yeah and I was very pleased with the money I had put into it which is odd that I ever walk away from spending any money on a car that I felt good about but in
[speaker002:] um-hum that you felt good about yeah
[speaker001:] but in this particular instance I did because everything felt like they just tightened everything up somehow but uh but I had decided kind of you know just without really giving it a whole lot of thought
[speaker002:] yes yeah yeah
[speaker001:] that when I do buy again uh I bought this car that I've got new but probably what I'm going to do sometime in the future is uh I'm going to look around for a good clean used car a year or two old
[speaker002:] yes that's exactly what they told me they told me too they said you should get it two years because I don't know because the price has come down that much in the two years
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] and and uh X number of miles you know or like eleven thousand miles I can't remember I mean people had all these formulas I just felt intimidated so intimidated
[speaker001:] well and let you know on on note I think anyone you talk with is going to have a different viewpoint on automobiles and really and the other thing is too I I don't think that it what what
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] is true for one person may not necessarily be true for another because other you know so many different people have different needs and and and desires as uh as far as cars are concerned but uh
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum um-hum yeah
[speaker001:] it's just the the kind the I know if I go out to buy a new one I mean I know what kind of money it would take to do it and I just don't want to pay that much money
[speaker002:] uh-huh and yeah well the that's my feeling too and eventually they'll be coming out with cars that you know have much better gas mileage or use different kind of gas which is something that matters to me so um if you know if I can keep this one going I mean then uh you know I even considered leasing they talked about leasing I looked into that and then that you know then no it doesn't it makes sense for this kind of thing but not for that
[speaker001:] yeah I leased one car
[speaker002:] oh you did
[speaker001:] yeah I did that one time I had a I got an eighty five or rather it was a uh well it actually started to lease an eighty four and it was a three year lease
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] you know the only thing about it is I mean it was simple to get into and it really wasn't bad to get out of
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] but you pay that money every month and then you're finished with it and you don't have nothing to show for it granted if you had
[speaker002:] yes yeah you have nothing left yeah
[speaker001:] spent that money buying one you still wouldn't have much to show for it but you would have at least a little
[speaker002:] right right yeah
[speaker001:] so it's it you know I I think it depends I I I guess there's certain instances that that could be the best thing to do but I don't think I'll go that route again
[speaker002:] yeah well and people told me if you're the kind who buys a new car every two to four years that your