[speaker001:] okay
[speaker002:] okay have you done this very long
[speaker001:] uh well yeah for the last uh couple of months
[speaker002:] yeah that's the same with us
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] well what kind of car would you buy
[speaker001:] well it's kind of hard to say uh because I don't think we're going to buy another car for about three years we just
[speaker002:] oh okay
[speaker001:] bought uh a car uh last year and then bought one in eighty nine and uh wait a minute we bought one in ninety we've got three cars of all things
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] so uh probably we'll be in at least a midsize four door sedan
[speaker002:] okay what kind do you have now
[speaker001:] uh we have a a Mazda nine twenty nine and a Ford Crown Victoria and a little two seater CRX
[speaker002:] oh okay
[speaker001:] uh it's rather difficult to to project what kind of uh we'd look always look into uh consumer reports to see what kind of uh report or uh repair records that the various cars have
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and then of course we look into the prices
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and uh for uh we're not adverse to buying along in the summer when when the cars could get to be discounted because we keep we've begun to keep them uh longer a longer period of time uh I traded off an eighty two Oldsmobile for the eighty nine Mazda
[speaker002:] oh uh-huh
[speaker001:] so uh
[speaker002:] and did you find that you like the foreign cars better than the domestic
[speaker001:] uh yeah yeah we we've had thirty some odd cars in our married life and um we we've had a good many foreign cars
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and uh they they uh I've been extremely we've had three Mazdas we've been extremely pleased with our Mazdas
[speaker002:] oh really
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] we've always bought American made cars mostly Oldsmobiles
[speaker001:] yeah well we we've had uh let's see we had uh we had a uh let me think we had a fifty three and a uh we had uh two fifty threes which is a long thirty minute story uh and we had a sixty five and then we had this eighty two
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] so we we really can't complain about Oldsmobiles really
[speaker002:] yeah we've been real pleased with ours I think we've had one two three
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and most we have a Cutlass we still have a Cutlass Supreme which is like a a seventy seven
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] then we have a Cutlass Sierra and we've had a ninety eight
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] so but I don't know we'll we're going to be in the market for a car probably in the next year and the financing is always something we consider you know the four percent or when they
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] give good financing through the the motor company
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] but I don't know what we're going to buy I always thought I would like to try a foreign made car but boy with all the auto workers being laid off makes me feel guilty so
[speaker001:] well uh my son over in Shreveport uh sold Porsches Audis Mada Mazdas and Volkswagons for ten years and that was one of the deciding factors in getting the Mazdas
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] uh so uh the first foreign car that we had was a a seventy seven MG MGB
[speaker002:] oh the
[speaker001:] was British green racing green with real wire wheels and a hard top and a soft top
[speaker002:] ooh boy
[speaker001:] and uh I drove it mostly and
[speaker002:] I bet it was hard to part with that
[speaker001:] yeah it really was my husband was in the Air Force and we got transferred to Okinawa
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] so uh we had to sell it which which really really tore me up
[speaker002:] oh yes
[speaker001:] because uh it was it was great fun and then uh when we got to Okinawa bought well we bought a second hand we uh we decided that uh we had that sixty uh sixty five Oldsmobile and it and it was just too big so we we sold it to a fellow who was coming back to the States and we got a little Fiat uh and a and the little uh forty horse power Mazda four door sedan
[speaker002:] oh