okay
i had uh just
my last car i bought was a new one i ordered it from uh you know from the factory with all the little options and stuff i wanted on it
all the goodies
it was a Oldsmobile
an Oldsmobile had you owned Oldsmobiles before
yes i had i liked uh
i had had a four four two and i when i was younger and that was uh
quite a car
uh-huh uh-huh
and you what just the memory of that made you go to Oldsmobile again or
uh well i looked around uh
i think it may have had some influence i just liked uh
this particular car it was a good buy i got it through the TI
they had at the time the fleet purchase agreement
oh yeah
so that uh took a lot of the hassle out of it
and uh you know i got all the things i wanted the sunroof and the luggage rack and all that
um-hum are you still driving that car
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how old is it now
it was eighty five
eighty five are you going to be looking again soon or how long do you normally keep cars for a long time or
well uh i am now i've uh
i bought a houseboat and had other expenses so i'm not i'm not in the any position to be buying a car right away
oh my
uh-huh uh-huh
although i was look like i might have to but because i had a little trouble with it i had to have a valve job and so forth done on it
oh my
seem to be running pretty good now
was it still under warranty or
oh no no this was just recently
uh-huh uh-huh
you put a lot of miles on a car or
uh yeah i do a pretty good bit i've got about ninety six thousand on this one here
oh my
for what almost six well six years huh
yeah i drive about eighteen miles out to the plant and back
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each day i mean each way
thirty six miles a day
well we don't we don't buy new cars that often we drive them you know until they get
maybe seven or eight years old and then
we'll what we'll do is sell off we'll have one about seven say and one twelve or thirteen years old and we'll get rid of it and then we'll
uh-huh
buy a new one and and uh i guess right now we have a
a seventy eight Chevy wagon and then a a four year old uh Crown Victoria that i love and
you like Fords huh
uh-huh well my husband's my husband got to chose choose the make and then i got everything else
uh-huh
uh
he he he likes Fords and my youngest son still lives at home he's in in college but he drives an old Ford seventy seven Ford pick up
yeah
that he loves but
no i this was the last year they made the big Crown Victoria and before they started chopping it up and making it look ugly so i it look i i guess some people think it looks boxy but
oh yeah
always like to to have a room in a car i'm not into compacts i like
yeah
that was uh
something you can relax in
something we uh
were interested in for our kids while they were learning how to drive was a pretty good size car although two of them decided on trucks pickup trucks
right
well that's not that's a good choice for a child i think to start to start to drive in
yeah
our oldest one started in a old Datsun of ours but our second one
uh bought a real old i i guess it was a Olds ninety eight but it was one that was still metal before they brought in fiberglass and we she was such a nervous driver we felt like she's probably better off in that
you know if she if anything did happen she was going to be all right but
yeah that's
well that's true i mean they uh they should have a little car around them
not well just for safety's sake
yeah
and i don't know i i look at the new ones on the market now and the the bodies are so
sleek i guess for wind resistance you know and and uh they just don't look like they're roomy inside i guess they are i haven't been looking at them to
plastic
yeah
well there's a lot less room in this one i have than the earlier ones i've had yeah this is supposedly a
oh really
i guess they call it a midsize car but
uh-huh is it supposed to seat six
yeah it uh well no it's a it's got bucket seats in the front and you can fit you can fit five people in it
uh okay
a lot of knee room in the back or
it's fair uh
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nothing
anything like your Crown Victoria
yeah
just you know you can sit in there and it's it's reasonably comfortable
right right
i don't sit back there very often
well i even even in our car i know like when my husband and my sons and sons-in-law all have long legs they're tall people and so if one of like my husband's driving then he soot scoots his seat back
yeah me too
and so we can't put a we can't put a tall person with long legs behind him
same here six i'm six foot four so
so it
oh my word yeah you're like my son-in-law yeah
no that's so you can't then then like i could sit in back because i'm only five four so my legs would fit
well
fine back there but you couldn't put a a real long legged person back there comfortably
that influences my car purchase decision too because i can't really get in a lot of these Toyotas and Hondas and stuff
right w ell well yeah i wonder sometimes you know we have the Dallas Mavericks here that play and they'll show them sometimes on TV and they've all got these real low sports cars
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maybe yeah well now sports cars they have a lot of room for your legs you know you kind of sit lay
and i
well i've never been in one so i but i'm always wondering how on earth somebody six seven six eight getting into those little old things
you get into a little more of a reclining position
they must because i don't know where they're going
yeah
yeah their feet go way up under i've driven a Camaro i mean uh
yeah Chevy sports car Corvette and
Corvette yeah
well even to get out of it though i mean you're you're only a foot off the ground at the most
you got to
that's true
and it's got to be you know you can't get your leg out and so i i thought i always you always see them standing by it you know if they're advertising they don't ever show them getting in and out
yeah
yeah right
and i thought that's the part i'd like to see
is them getting in or out
the unfolding and folding act
right well listen i never had a car that's had the swivel seats that where you can like when you're wanting to get out you just turn it to the side and then your feet are
no i haven't either
and and i don't even know if they i know for a while back i saw them advertise that and i thought that might be kind of a neat
looks like a real good idea to me
a neat thing to have but i i for some reason they don't carry them and i don't know if they found they were unsafe or
hum
you know maybe to do that they had couldn't make them where they were just real stable
yeah
one thing our does our car doesn't have that i'd look for in another car is that that little
gutter like it runs so that when you open the door the water doesn't just come off the it doesn't have that so when you open our car door it comes the new the new one does
yeah
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so they i guess that's the year they learned that's not a good idea because it just comes right off the roof and straight down and just you know i try to put an umbrella up there but that doesn't help too much it just
so i get the interior wet and i don't like to do that just along the side there
well you all don't get as much rain near Plano as we do here i'll bet
well i i don't know we
sure been wet this i never seen a spring like this
how many inches do you all average a year
huh
how many inches do you average a year
oh i don't know but we're way we must be way above average this year because it's been terrible just rain rain rain
you just have had a lot
yeah
is it is it uh kind of a dirty rain you know i i've never been down in there but you always here how polluted with all the oil
no we're no
it's not
it's not
huh-uh
it's just rain
well i i didn't course
no it's uh i don't think it's any particularly polluted here i mean you can
i guess if you went uh if you went over by the refineries and stuff you might
oh it is up here too it is everywhere but
with all the oil right right that's where i was thinking of
no that doesn't
that doesn't that doesn't affect
huh-uh no we never notice that over here we live on the northwest side
ah
then you don't have any trouble with the water or
hi there mister Colombian
just had a friend come back from Colombia
oh my
well i just
i i don't know i you know i just hear that when you read about Houston seems like they're course all their advertising or not advertising but news reporting is maybe an oil
uh-huh
refinery blowing up or something like that you don't ever i i need to get down that way i guess sometime when i retire
they have a
see what they have
well yeah it's not that far
i know my grandchildren keep me landlocked
they have a they have a
they have a uh big you know it's a big complexes all around the ship channel over on the east east side of town southeast
uh-huh uh-huh
other than that you know it's a nice clean city real modern
hum
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yeah i that was where they had
when the economy went bad a couple years back they had all the limousines for such good buys
yeah
we had one of our principals at our of a school here in Plano an elementary school went down and bought one
uh-huh
i think she paid eighteen or twenty thousand dollars for a limousine and she's still driving that thing around and they tease her
um
just just you know to see her drive up in front of the school everybody wonders who it is
yeah never heard of limousines being a good buy know we had plenty of real estate though
it was just a
well they they just said you can you know the limousine companies were going out of busy and and you could pick one up for
oh yeah oh i guess that's true yeah
for a real good buy and they had supposedly in Houston they had a lot of them
so i thought well that i don't know we even debated about that at that time but decided no that wasn't the
that wasn't the route when our kids were little we had a van which we loved for for traveling we had four kids and they just that allowed them to really move around
oh yeah
we did
we had
