okay uh
are you in the market for a new car
uh
i've only purchased one new car in my entire life
really
right
and that was back in nineteen fifty nine
and it was a new Ford
so the automobiles that that i have uh
uh-huh
first of all we have a source now we got a a friend whose a nun
uh-huh
and we've been purchasing her cars she buys a brand new car every three or four years
oh really
and then when she gets ready to trade it in she offers it to us and we buy it
well well that's great
so
if you if you can find a deal like that
yeah and uh we've got we've got a sixty seven Mustang that we bought brand new
oh
and we still have that
oh that that that's a classic car
so yeah it's going to be uh let's see next year i guess it will be an antique
next year
yeah
but the problem with it is up here around there's so much salt on the roads
oh really
that it's hard to keep automobiles for any length of time because they all rust out and
huh
i bet that's right i bet that i bet that is true
for down well down here we don't have that problem
of course
yeah uh every once in a while though uh i'll read a blip where you guys get some
uh terrible ice storms
oh yes we get and then
but they don't put salt on the roads down there then
they sand the roads
and it just turns into a big mess
ugh okay
so uh but really the when it when it gets uh nasty down here it's like a big huge fender bender parking lot
so i just try
nobody nobody goes anywhere no one will
nobody goes anywhere
okay so how about how about you how about purchasing an automobile
well uh a couple years ago we we purchased an uh well it wasn't new it wasn't new it was a a a an Astro van and
oh okay
we really like it because we got uh a two year old and another one on the way
so uh
yeah
we we had a Firebird and we had to trade we guess we got to get rid of this thing because there's no way we can haul kids and junk and stuff with that so we got rid of that and
we're really pleased with it
yeah so what do you buy what are you looking for you look for an automatic you know you look for something with all the
yes i can't drive a standard
you can't drive a standard
no i can't drive a standard
yeah no i used to when i was when i was uh younger
uh-huh
you know but i've it's been long gone out of my system now i could just put it in home and let it go there and take me there and that's it i don't like any of that
yeah
but i do like comfort i like uh uh we have bigger automobiles now we've got Pontiacs
uh-huh
uh i like the comfort you know and and the mileage we get is depending on if it's tuned up or not we get between eighteen and twenty two miles to the gallon uh
that's good we
you know it's not really all that that doesn't it's it isn't as good as some of the smaller ones you know that they get a zillion miles
uh oh yeah but yeah uh that's not one of my first priorities when i'm looking for a new car is excellent gas mileage
look
you what what do you look for uh ease of handling or roominess
well my husband has to have a has to drive a pick up so that's so he has his he has a pickup
uh
uh he drives a small uh S GMC S fifteen which we bought we bought new five years ago and have had real good luck with i mean there's have absolutely no trouble with it
yeah that's i i had a pickup truck in fact i had i had two the last one i gave to my uh uh youngest
uh-huh
uh
because we used to go we we we uh built our home and we built it to we designed it to be heated by uh wood you know uh uh wood stove
yeah
uh-huh
so and i like the i like the warmth and the comfort of it so
every winter well i used to go out and chop wood and get it all ready for the next season so a pickup truck was handy for the work i was doing around
uh-huh
oh yeah
but now everything's done so
i figure instead of doing that i'll just i'll just order wood but
uh
uh i'm just like you gas mileage wasn't a priority
hum
it was it was comfort and it has to be has to have air
oh yes
so down down where you guys are
down here it's a it's it's it's a necessity
it's a necessity yeah
when it gets to be a hundred degrees every day for a month and a half
yeah that's i had i had gone down to Dallas couple weeks ago
it's
uh on a seminar for a week
oh yeah
and that's when you broke all the records was up to like ninety six
yeah it was it's pretty warm
eighties and you know when i left here and we're down to the thirties and twenties and
uh-huh
so it's a shock
so i can see you yeah and you need air you actually need air now
it gets warm enough down there for it
so
yeah i've i've in the car i've been running it
uh uh uh uh because it
but uh the the weather the weather's just been really nice but i mean you you just can't sell a car down here that does not have air conditi oning in it
yeah
like we're from Missouri and when we moved
oh are you
we when we moved down here the our uh the vehicle we had did not have air conditioning and we went through one summer that way and that was it that's when we traded it
so that's that's one of your priorities there's got to be air has to be an automatic
yes
uh how about uh accessories power windows and all that
oh that's not really important the the other stuff is just you know window dressing because we we've never ordered anything fact the the van that we've got we bought uh
from an estate it was an estate trade uh it was almost brand new the the gentlemen who owned it had died
uh
so we got a really good deal
so you got a yeah
and it's loaded i mean it it i mean if i would have went to buy that thing new there's no way i could have afforded it
yeah
but uh since it was a state vehicle we got a really good deal on it but it
so if you know if you know where where you're get getting your your automobile from
yeah
it's best to buy it that way because like our sales tax up here is seven percent
oh it's it's eight percent it's eight here
it's eight percent down there
yes yes
so who
so if you go out and you're talking like a ten or fifteen thousand dollar vehicle and you add that sales tax on that's a that's a big chunk of change you have to come up with
yes it is it
and then we have an excise tax up here too i don't know if you have one every year down there
oh no
so they take the they take the uh whatever the book value of the vehicle is
and then whatever your tax rate is and they just tax you every year on the vehicle or two vehicles yes it's terrible
oh how awful
and in our town we live in a like a rural area
and they have a fire tax that they add on too
oh how awful
so so we've got to pay a fire tax and we got to pay you know two taxes
sounds like you got a a little one there
oh she hit her she hit her head now she's fine so
oh
so once you buy a vehicle and you pay you pay the sales tax that's it they don't tax you on it anymore
oh uh property tax the city of Dallas but uh since we moved out of the city of Dallas we don't have to pay property tax on it anymore
so that's what they consider property tax it's like like if you own your own home you have to pay property tax
right homes vehicles you know everything
has everything like that gets uh taxed property uh property tax
yeah
even if you you know if you don't own it yet it if you're paying off a note you still have to pay property tax on it
i still have to pay it yeah that's just like up here too
it's like that Mustang that we have
the excise tax on it every year there's a minimum you have to pay and and it's only twelve dollars
uh-huh
so we've got an automobile that's that's got some class to it but i don't really i can't tell now what kind of a car is coming down or what kind of a car i'm following unless i get up close enough to read the name on it
yeah
because they all look the same
yes everything look that's it i don't i don't foresee buying us buying an a a vehicle anytime in the near future because we're very pleased with what we've got plus i don't like anything that they've come out with
yeah and if you take care of it i mean you can get
uh some good mileage out of it
oh yeah
because of the the i'm driving a Pontiac now
and it's uh it's a sixty seven Pontiac it's got a hundred fifty eight thousand miles on it
ooh wee
and it's absolutely gorgeous just i mean just glides along and i still get that good mileage and
well that's great that
i take it back and forth to work
and then my wife's got a a an eighty four Parisian Pontiac
uh-huh
and that's a big car it's a V8 four door
uh-huh
and that's got uh
a hundred and sixteen thousand miles on it and that runs perfectly well too
well that that's great you got a hold of a couple of vehicles uh really good vehicles
so when we get like i said you know the next one when she decides to to sell the car she has now i'll end up with the Parisian and my wife will have the newer one of course and
yeah
so we we just been doing it for years and years and years
well down here if you want to go buy a used car it's impossible because they want just as much for a used car as they want for a new car
and it it it just does
that's incredible
it just doesn't make sense to buy a used car down here
yeah if you're going to pay the same amount of money and and you don't really know where it came from
yeah
then you're buying somebody's headaches probably
oh you have no idea where it comes from you don't
it's yeah and there's no warranty
no none
so whatever happens to it you're stuck with it
yes true
unless you buy it from i say somebody you know you know like from a family member or a like that one
yeah
