[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
[speaker002:] ah
[speaker001:] and 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 can never afford it so
[speaker002:] uh well I understand and can sympathize with that because I also enjoy driving performance automobiles um I currently have an eighty seven five liter Mustang GT that I've done a bunch of modifications to to make it uh handle and perform better
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and I suspect if I were to be able to get another car where object was um the best car I could get regardless of money 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 GTS
[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 of the of the alarm so I just look at it a lot
[speaker002:] you just go hunting go out and lust after it
[speaker001:] really exactly but it sure is a pretty thing
[speaker002:] so have you had the opportunity to drive a Ferrari
[speaker001:] no I'm working on it no I really haven't no huh-uh
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] I did 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:] ah
[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
[speaker002:] yeah there there's something about having a place to live I don't know
[speaker001:] and I felt that I should continue to live in my house so 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 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 they really are
[speaker002:] yeah and they've they've improved 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 no no see I'm not into station wagons and vans and things that people are really buying now and they go isn't that a nice van and I go hm not really you know how about a Greyhound bus
[speaker002:] uh nice yeah nice isn't the word I'd choose maybe practical isn't that a practical van
[speaker001:] yeah I mean that you know 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's 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 and I knew nothing about my car when I got it nothing I didn't know how anything worked
[speaker002:] oh 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 minutes 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 you 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 you release it right at the top so you don't have to get out or anything
[speaker002:] yeah so so you won't get 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 so I really did I mean I was soaking wet I thought I would drown in the seconds that it took me to pull over
[speaker002:] whoops
[speaker001:] but it all dried out you know didn't take long when the sun came out but it was kind of funny I'm sure people around me really enjoyed it so
[speaker002:] yeah oh no I was just down in Austin last week and the weather was pretty nice too so
[speaker001:] oh 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:] yeah a lot of people say that and it's pretty far from where I live it's about hm two or three hours maybe two hundred