[speaker001:] Seem to have the topic already on top of th-, tip of your tongue there so why don't you go ahead and start.
[speaker002:] Yeah. Isn't the, uh, the subject auto repair,
[speaker001:] Yes, sir.
[speaker002:] for tonight? Yeah. That's great. The reason I say that is pretty timely because just tonight I went out and changed the oil in my car and,
[speaker001:] Okay.
[speaker002:] that's something I like to do and, uh, something I, something I can do with now the sophisticated auto,
[speaker001:] Right, exactly.
[speaker002:] cars we have today with all the computers and everything.
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] It's, uh, and there's not a whole lot you can do without the equipment and electronic analysis that needs to be done on a car, but I do like to get out and tinker with a car and it's something I can do still. Do you enjoy working with your car?
[speaker001:] I sure do. I, uh, in fact, the last thing I have, I've done I, I don't even remember what it is. I've had to have oil changes done myself because I live in an apartment complex,
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] where we are not allowed to,
[speaker002:] Oh, dear.
[speaker001:] work on our vehicle. We can't even wash our vehicle, so.
[speaker002:] Oh, that's too bad.
[speaker001:] Uh, but the last thing I can remember doing wh-, I had a sixty-six Mustang,
[speaker002:] Oh.
[speaker001:] and that was all right because like you said that was pre technology days, I guess.
[speaker002:] Oh, yes.
[speaker001:] And, uh, you know, you could do a lot of it yourself still, and, uh, I didn't tinker too much with the engine. It was, it was in pretty good shape, but my main concern and what I enjoy doing was, was the interior.
[speaker002:] Oh.
[speaker001:] And, uh, it was, it was pretty shelled, uh, but it was fun. It was taking the whole thing, you know, the whole interior apart and, you know, ordering new carpeting and, uh,
[speaker002:] And did you install all that yourself?
[speaker001:] Right.
[speaker002:] Well, that was,
[speaker001:] And,
[speaker002:] I bet that was a lot of fun.
[speaker001:] It, it was. I, my wife enjoyed, uh, she, you know, helped out a little. We sanded down the, the insides of the door panels.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] And painted,
[speaker002:] Wow.
[speaker001:] those and,
[speaker002:] Do you still have the car?
[speaker001:] No, I sold it.
[speaker002:] Well, that's too bad. A sixty-seven Chev-, uh, Mustang is about the, uh, top, [NOISE] top year for the Mustang [LAUGHTER] car.
[speaker001:] Yeah, it was fun though. It was fun. I, I really enjoyed it, and I was surprised at, at, uh, the availability of parts yet.
[speaker002:] Yes.
[speaker001:] You know, you can, you can still get factory original parts.
[speaker002:] Huh.
[speaker001:] But, uh, you pay a premium but you just don't get them. I, I didn't. I went ahead and got, you know, Japanese made duplicates or wherever they were made, Canada.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] You know, prefabs and all that stuff but,
[speaker002:] Well, you know, that's, that's fine. I, I don't think that there would be, uh, [breathing] you know, a, a quality difference. I don't know. You wouldn't, you didn't notice the difference, did you?
[speaker001:] Well, actually there was.
[speaker002:] Oh.
[speaker001:] And, uh, I had heard rumors that it was because they couldn't duplicate [throat clearing] certain patterns, uh, exactly.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] And so like the, the glove box was just a little,
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] little wider,
[speaker002:] Oh, dear.
[speaker001:] little harder to fit in, and
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] the carpeting, uh, stretched a little too far. I had to cut some of the sides down.
[speaker002:] Oh, dear.
[speaker001:] But just, just little things. You know, one of the screws on, on the door regulat-, uh, window regulators you could get three of the, three of the four to lineup. The fourth one you couldn't get to lineup no matter what you did.
[speaker002:] Oh,
[speaker001:] You know, thin-,
[speaker002:] I bet that was frustrating, wasn't it?
[speaker001:] Oh, it was but,
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] the end result is after you put your, your panels on, nobody sees that [LAUGHTER] you got one screw missing in your, your window regulator anyway and,
[speaker002:] Right, right.
[speaker001:] it, it runs. It works just the same, so.
[speaker002:] Yeah, that's, that's true. Well, you know, that, that is something I really enjoy doing. Um, working on our car too, the, uh, I just changed my oil, oil tonight but, uh, I enjoy also working on things like the brakes and, uh, in fact, just two weeks ago I helped my neighbor out on his brakes on his car. And, uh, either if it's a drum or, or disc brakes, I enjoy working on those kind of things.
[speaker001:] Disc brakes don't seem to give me too much problem but I, I honestly don't have the tools for the drum. I know you got, uh, certain spring lever that you got to have or some, uh
[speaker002:] Yeah. Spoons and,
[speaker001:] some spring pulley or something that you got to pull that spring back over onto that notch.
[speaker002:] Yes, you do [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] Uh, my dad has got all that and, and I, I helped him when I was growing up,
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] but I don't have that stuff now,
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] because of the drum brakes I, you know, don't have any choice but to take them in.
[speaker002:] Yeah, that's true. And, you know, it, it doesn't, doesn't hurt every once in a while to have them done professionally too because, um, I was helping my neighbor out and one of his drums needed to be resurfaced and I don't have, of course, the equipment to do that,
[speaker001:] Sure.
[speaker002:] so he took it into a shop and had it resur-, uh, resurfaced and, and fixed that way. But, yeah, it is true, uh, you know, I did have a sixty-four Ford truck that I wish I still had and loved to get inside that and tinker around with it and work with it,
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] because you didn't have all the extra, extra stuff,
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] that's in there now.
[speaker001:] I'll tell you what. The other, the nicest thing about them is, uh, everything was standard. You didn't have to worry about finding a metric anything.
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER] Oh, yeah.
[speaker001:] Boy, I tell you.
[speaker002:] And you know,