[speaker002:] well Sid have you established what kind of requirements you're looking for for your next vehicle
[speaker001:] well I don't know if I really have a a lot of uh requirements uh I guess I look at uh getting the best deal uh as as my main objectives normally whoever is willing to deal and and give me a good price
[speaker002:] okay well I I tend to be more methodical I guess uh I determine first of all what I'm gonna use the vehicle for whether it's going to be primarily as a family mover or as a a personal mover uh where it's gonna be driven you know what types of uh driving I'm going to be doing on it primarily highway or or local mileage more often and uh hanging in the back of my mind is always the knowledge that I tend to drive cars for about ten years at a hundred fifty to two hundred thousand miles
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] so I'm I'm real picky if if if you're gonna keep something that long you know you better get something that you wanted to begin with and that you're you're gonna like for a long time
[speaker001:] yeah I don't know I've had pretty good luck you know even if if you take any car and and you care for it well enough uh you're gonna get some good life out of it uh I my Oldsmobile right now that I have uh is getting near eighty thousand and still in pretty good shape uh there was a flaw in there where a where a head gasket bolt broke and it cost me some bucks to to fix that but that was you know something that was unforeseen but I still think I can I'm gonna get probably a hundred fifty thousand or more out of it
[speaker002:] sure well it sounds like you tend to drive your cars quite a ways a also then
[speaker001:] well I I drive like the song says the little old lady but uh but not from Pasadena but uh yeah I I baby them ah as much as I possibly can it's a pretty big expense nowadays uh and I guess I like to take care of it uh so I don't have to buy one too often
[speaker002:] that's true uh do you have more than one one than one vehicle in your fleet uh do you have a family fleet or
[speaker001:] yeah I I I got an old uh seventy six uh Grand Fury that uh doesn't wanna die on me so I I just keep running the thing don't wanna sell it or get rid of it until it it quits but it just doesn't seem to want to I'll probably have uh three four hundred thousand before it wants to die
[speaker002:] well that may be they Chrysler made some really good old engines back then like the the three eighteen was particularly an exceptionally good engine
[speaker001:] it's got the big three sixty in there gas guzzler but it runs good
[speaker002:] yeah at the moment I've got a Cadillac Cimarron which is approaching its tenth year of age and a uh reasonably new Plymouth Voyager it's only a a couple of years old but that's the second one of of those that we've had that's the the family travel vehicle you know not only does it do all the the uh carpooling around during the week but it's also the vacation vehicle that we all drive in I think that what I'm getting ready to get next is probably a Suburban unless they drastically change the the vehicle a lot uh I'm just getting tired of when I do get hung up in traffic not being able to determine what the problem is and and come to some resolution of whether it's better to sit in the traffic light and wait or get off at the next exit that kind of stuff just because I can't see
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] yeah I'm too my Cimarron is just so small and so low to the ground that I can't see past any vehicle that's in front of me
[speaker001:] yeah yeah well I I'm considering probably some kind of a pickup truck myself for the next vehicle uh I just have so many hauling projects a lot of times and uh uh I'd like to just start doing some uh uh carpentry uh type work around and I just feel that