[speaker001:] well as much as I'd uh I'd like to say that I'll be looking for a flashy convertible or a or a four by four or something I guess the next car I'll be looking for is a kind of a plain old four door
[speaker002:] what kind of car do you have now
[speaker001:] oh we've got a uh an older Delta Eighty Eight and then uh our our newer car is a uh a Corsica and uh we'll probably be looking for something about that uh that same style that same kind of four door hard top style and
[speaker002:] yeah yeah you got kids
[speaker001:] uh no but we're planning for it so uh in fact uh our Oldsmobile is a is a like an old Delta Eighty Eight but it's in pretty good shape it's in really good shape and we've been really pleased with Oldsmobiles that's probably where the first place we'd look
[speaker002:] okay yeah yeah huh
[speaker001:] but uh
[speaker002:] well we've always had uh Fords uh mostly because my wife's stepfather works at a Ford dealership
[speaker001:] uh-huh that'll do it
[speaker002:] yeah that'll do it um but yeah we're we're in the same shape I think our next car will be a you know some big old four door uh something that can haul the kids to baseball practice and piano lessons and we've got a minivan
[speaker001:] yep uh-huh
[speaker002:] and that's great and I drive I drive uh well I used to drive an Escort but it died on me so I I mean I I I used to run it I uh where we used to live I used to commute a hundred and forty miles a day
[speaker001:] oh jeez
[speaker002:] and uh and this Escort took it all and its it it got up to uh uh I was at ninety four thousand miles on it and the engine just went
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] so I I bought I bought a used um Dodge Aries
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] which has been okay I I mean I haven't had it that long but it it'll it's an eighty five Aries but it only had thirty four thousand miles on it when I bought it
[speaker001:] really um-hum oh jeez
[speaker002:] and I just you know I just drive it to work so it's just a ten minute commute everyday
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] so um it doesn't get much of uh I mean it's not like I'm putting it through its paces but I think uh and it's a four door which is nice but it's still a little cramped I've got three kids
[speaker001:] yeah yeah um-hum yeah yeah sounds like you you need at least like a Taurus size or something like that
[speaker002:] so I I yeah that's what I was thinking of was a Taurus um
[speaker001:] yeah I I know I know a lot of the guys at work they uh the ones that have uh families uh and they still want kind of a sports car they've been uh a lot of them been getting these uh Taurus SHOs that I guess it's the sport version of the Taurus in fact it comes with a standard stick and uh
[speaker002:] oh really yeah ooh
[speaker001:] and a lot of those it comes with a bigger engine and the things like that but uh
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and usually they're in like black and gun metal grey and and those kind of colors you're not gonna see too many uh you know green ones or blue ones or anything like that they they put them in sporty colors I guess but uh
[speaker002:] yeah yeah well my wife wants a Miata
[speaker001:] oh well sure that's what you know until till you look at the price tag and then you go what what would I really besides tooling around and looking really cool and having a lot of fun what would I really do with this car if it what
[speaker002:] right right yeah I know I know it's like I I guess I could fit in it maybe
[speaker001:] yeah I I went I went through that when I first got out of uh college I had an old car that I bought just to get to to my job my first job
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and when I got there the first thing I did was trade it in on a Spitfire and I I knew that was gonna be the only time I could afford a two seater uh sports car
[speaker002:] no yeah
[speaker001:] but that that just does not make it as an only car it's uh it's like I bought I would I bought a set of stereo speakers
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and it was one of those cash and carry deals and I had to take them one at a time with the top down and it was winter so I was like in this coat with the top down and the speaker in the passenger seat
[speaker002:] oh no
[speaker001:] and I drove that one home and then I went back and got the other one and put that in the passenger seat and drove that one home and uh funny funniest sight and you kind of outgrow that real quick when it's your only car
[speaker002:] yeah yeah well I you know it's funny most people that I've talked to did stuff like that when they were in college or you know or when they were single anyway they'd they'd buy themselves a sporty car because it was their last I never did that uh you know my first car was a Toyota Corolla
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah oh really
[speaker002:] and uh because I got a good deal on it and uh that was a great little car actually
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] I met that's how I met girls was I'd find out if a girl could drive a manual transmission which I I'd never I I'd learned on an automatic transmission and so so I'd go out on dates where they would teach me how to drive this car
[speaker001:] uh-huh boy that's a good deal
[speaker002:] and uh in fact I married one of those people and it worked yeah it worked all right real good
[speaker001:] ah okay well I'll have to remember that if I ever get in that situation again huh because I I know we've uh that's that's something that that we definitely have to go with is an automatic transmission my um my wife just does can't can't can't uh she doesn't really wanna learn I guess the uh the standard shift in fact I I remember once we uh
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] we uh went uh went on a uh test drive we got one of these things from Lee Iacocca that said you know I'll give you a fifty dollar savings bond if you'll test drive a car and we went uh we went uh
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] we went to a dealership and uh it it was it was pretty she she did pretty well but it was one of these things where we just went to a big parking lot and the uh dealer kind of gave her standard shift parking because that's all it was it was it was the funniest thing it was like a
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] a big Le Baron it was a Le Baron with everything on it but it had a standard shift it was the craziest thing I ever saw and and and that's probably why they were trying to sell them I guess
[speaker002:] wow that's weird yeah huh
[speaker001:] and uh we just kind of went back and forth and back and forth she did pretty well after a while but uh it's it's kind of hard to learn I guess
[speaker002:] yeah well my wife I mean she'd always driven standard transmission and uh and and in fact all our earlier cars were standard a standard transmission in fact the minivan's a has a stick shift
[speaker001:] um-hum okay
[speaker002:] and in fact this Dodge Aries is the first car we've ever gotten that had anything you know it's got automatic transmission cruise control you know electric locks you know it's like it's like a luxury car except that it's the Dodge Aries you know so uh
[speaker001:] oh jeez yeah yeah what the oh well well I guess that I guess that's about all I got to say about cars
[speaker002:] well um the the thing about this uh the I will say this about the minivan
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] we thought that was a luxury car when we bought it it it
[speaker001:] uh-huh I would think so yeah because it's so big
[speaker002:] yeah and and it was quiet it had a stereo system we never had it you know we always had the AM radio and uh course this had stick shift it had speakers speakers that you can control from the backseat
[speaker001:] oh yeah sure sure um-hum
[speaker002:] and you can change the channels on the on the radio from the backseat too and put speaker speaker phones in it so uh
[speaker001:] uh-huh now now now that used to be a luxury but I bet on the next time you buy a car that's gonna be mandatory you've got to have that now you're used to it and you got to have it
[speaker002:] right that's right that's right and you got to pay for it too and I bet and I bet it costs twice as much as as when I bought mine
[speaker001:] yeah that's true too it probably does it probably does but uh oh well well Bill it's been nice talking to you okay you have a good evening um-hum bye-bye
[speaker002:] well nice talking to you thanks a lot bye bye