yeah i just bought one so
well that should be interesting
okay you ready
yeah guess so
here we go
what kind of car did you buy Ralph
uh Mazda
a Mazda how come you got a Mazda
uh price basically
oh
price and uh what it
all the things it came with for the price i couldn't beat it
you couldn't couldn't find an American built car
uh i didn't really look at American cars uh had a couple bad experiences with American cars
huh
just not holding up so
uh my last car was a foreign foreign made car and it held up real well and the car before that was American and it fell apart so
i'll be darned
i just decided to go foreign
i've had pretty much the i've had pretty much the opposite experience
really
yeah i generally drive a a large Ford super cab you know like one fifty or something and the one time i traded and got something different i got a little Datsun uh king cab
it didn't last eighteen months i had had more trouble with that
really
hell it comes to trucks though i would probably think to go American because everybody know has got a American made truck
they just seemed to be more rugged but uh the cars just seem to fall apart
yeah i that's that's probably true i'm getting ready to i think i'm going to trade off the super cab and i'm considering going with either one of those four door S10 Blazers a four door Explorer or four door Jeep
but i can't decide which one
get out there and test drive
yeah that's about the only thing to do i'm just i i'm looking for uh fuel economy and and durability and i've got to have some high road clearance we got some property and i need to get out in the pasture a lot
but i don't need to haul a pickup as much haul around stuff in the pickup as much as i used to we got an old one there at the ranch we use now
yeah
but i just got to have something i can get out in the field and of course that truck is only getting like eight to ten miles a gallon maybe twelve on a good day and that just kills me
right
especially a dollar a gallon or more for gas
i don't know how much going to
how much better you're going to get with a Blazer there
well those small ones uh those little bitty ones i'm going to go with the small one with the two wheel drive i don't really i i haven't had a use for four wheel drive tell you the truth
they say they're getting eighteen to twenty in them yeah i've got a friend of mine's got a uh he bought a four door Jeep with the positrack rear end instead of the four wheel drive
really
he's getting sixteen to eighteen in town and twenty to twenty two on the road
oh that's not so bad then
no he's not really and he's not he said he's pretty heavy footed he's clipping along at sixty five or so around there when he can get away with it
so i think i could probably stand you know twice the gas mileage
it wouldn't hurt my feelings a bit i just don't know if i could stand one that small because i'm fairly large and i've always driven a truck or something
right
i don't know
yeah i don't know i haven't been in the now ones that you know they look big on the road some of these uh
they don't look too bad i just you know i i have have to get in one to find out i just don't know if i could stand you know being cooped up my wife's got uh three old cars of hers she's never sold a car she's bought
she has thirty nine Chevy a fifty three and a sixty seven
and anytime i drive any of those i just you know it's like being in a coffin i just feel hemmed in i've got to have something fairly large
yeah yeah
but i think probably probably my whole problem is going to be trying to find something that will that will blend you know uh fuel economy and and price and uh durability
durability yeah if you got to take it out in the field
you know the little those smaller trucks
yeah they show them jumping over those ramps but hey
yeah i know that's
i think it would be fun if you didn't have to pay for the repairs to it
yeah
but that's what they don't show you when they get you know when they get them off they show them jumping up and down hills and like that but they don't show you the repairs
right
you know the front ends impossible to line up on mine
last time i lined my Ford front end up it cost me a hundred and ten dollars
so i don't know
how you getting gas mileage in your Mazda have you had it long enough to know
oh about uh twenty six twenty seven in the city it's a it's a four cylinder
and it's kind of a
sports coupe guess a little sports car but
you do most of your driving you do most of your driving in the city you do most of your driving in the city
it it does pretty good
huh
yeah i haven't even had a chance i've only had it for about three months i haven't had a chance to take it out on the road
i'll probably be heading down your way in uh oh the end of May end of April i guess when school's out
um well watch it coming down south down when you get through uh round round Georgetown and Roundrock they got a highway patrol that just patrols up and down that thing in those little fast Mustangs
i'll have to keep that in mind because uh
he just he just lives out there he makes his living on the road out there
Roundrock and where
Georgetown Georgetown or Georgetown
Georgetown
on down through Roundrock he just he just patrols up and down through that area now that's a neat little car
those little five little five point oh Mustangs the fast ones
oh uh
yeah i i wanted to get a Mustang i wanted to get a convertible but the convertibles you know they tack on an extra five six grand
oh yeah
and it's like i can't see paying that for a
for just
being able to take the roof down
you can get a sunroof a lot cheaper
yeah
it's probably more functional
i don't think i had a convertible once in college and it was fun when you know during the warm months
but God it was miserable during the winter i don't care what they say
yeah it's like i got and plus the way crime is going around here in the city you know take a knife to it break in
yeah and those convertible tops used to be three hundred dollars i don't know what they are now probably eight probably eight hundred by now
yeah i'm sure they're
yeah and you tack on the insurance they can add to it because
if you ever roll one that's pretty much it
insurance
yeah
you know that
that that that and the windshield post doesn't stop much
i had a friend that rolled a convertible not too long ago it was a BMW totaled the car he walked out of it though
um
you don't give those they don't give those BMWs away
those are expensive machines
um
well think we about done our five minutes
all right i got a meeting to get to so
okay
good talking to you
great
see you later bye bye
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