[speaker001:] seem to have the topic already on top of the tip of your tongue there so why don't you go ahead and start
[speaker002:] yeah isn't the uh the subject auto repair for tonight yeah that's great
[speaker001:] yes sir
[speaker002:] reason I say that is pretty timely because just tonight I went out and changed the oil in my car and that's something I like to do and uh something I
[speaker001:] okay
[speaker002:] something I can do with now the sophisticated auto cars we have today with all the computers and everything
[speaker001:] right exactly
[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 can't I don't even remember what it is I've had to have oil changes done myself because I live in an apartment complex where we're not allowed to work on our vehicle we can't even wash our vehicle so
[speaker002:] oh dear oh that's too bad
[speaker001:] uh but the last thing I can remember doing where I had a sixty six Mustang and that was all right because like you said that was pretechnology days I guess
[speaker002:] ooh 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 and uh it was it was pretty shelled uh but it was fun it taking the whole thing you know the whole interior apart and ordering new carpeting and
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] uh
[speaker002:] and did you install all that yourself
[speaker001:] right and
[speaker002:] well that was 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:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and painted those and
[speaker002:] wow do you still have the car
[speaker001:] no I sold it
[speaker002:] well that's too bad A sixty seven Chevrolet uh Mustang is about the uh top top year for the Mustang 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:] hm
[speaker001:] but uh you pay a premium but you just don't get them I I didn't I went ahead and got you you know Japanese made duplicates or wherever they were made Canada you know prefabs and all that stuff but
[speaker002:] yeah well it you know that's that's fine I I don't think that there would be uh 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 certain patterns uh exactly
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and so like the the glove box was just a little little wider little harder to fit in and the carpeting uh
[speaker002:] oh dear um-hum
[speaker001:] 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 regulator 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 I bet that was frustrating wasn't it
[speaker001:] you know thing oh it was but the end result is after you put your your panels on nobody sees that you got one screw missing in your your window regulator anyway and it it runs it works just the same so
[speaker002:] right right 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 I don't have the tools for the drum I know you got uh certain spring lever that you got to have or some uh some spring pulley or something that you got to pull that spring back over onto that notch
[speaker002:] yeah spoons and yes you do
[speaker001:] uh my dad's got all that and and I I helped him when I was growing up but I don't have that stuff now comes to drum brakes I
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah
[speaker001:] 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 so he took it into a shop and had it resurfaced uh resurfaced and and fixed that way but yeah it is true uh you know
[speaker001:] sure
[speaker002:] 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 because you didn't have all the extra extra stuff that's in there now
[speaker001:] uh-huh  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:] oh yeah
[speaker001:] boy I tell you
[speaker002:] and you know