i don't know what you drive now i mean what do you drive now
uh i have a Ford pickup and uh the family car is a uh a Dodge uh Caravan and uh because we have three kids and they're under thirteen
oh okay
so um
throw them in the back
they sort of fit our requirement yeah i have a one of those uh pickups with the uh
cap
seat with a seat in the back
oh yeah
and so they just fit in there when they get to be teenagers with long legs it may not work but right now i can right now i can throw them all in the back when we have room and uh
there you go
and since i do a lot of projects i throw things in the back and i kind of like having a pickup truck actually i think of it as a as a car that'll last
yeah you're
right yeah i know
i i like the way trucks are built and i don't care about comfort so i'm pretty happy
yeah you're looking at i got a Toyota Four Runner i wanted a truck that i i wanted something that i could throw people in the back too so i got a Four Runner
yeah
so i wouldn't hesitate to get another one i i never buy new so i wouldn't hesitate to get another used truck
you're just like me i've never bought a new vehicle in my life
and uh yeah i don't i don't i don't need to pay for the glitz i'll let somebody else uh have the showroom shine enough and i'll pay for the rest of it
no
let somebody else break it in right
right and uh the van we're sort sort of we might go again on a on a van uh we we could probably do with a a something just a little bit larger than a compact in a sedan next time i'm not sure
yeah
we have to we we'll have to face it in a couple of years but uh i i guess we had a small Toyota wagon
right
and we were real happy with that because uh my my second requirement after price is uh low maintenance and uh
right
that it certainly had that we didn't do much to it at all
so
yeah my my the pretty much the same i i got a like i said i got one of those Toyota Four Runners
um-hum
and uh it pretty much does everything i need it to i mean it it'll tow three thousand pounds so i can tow everything and it i can throw i've had eleven people in it before
uh-huh
believe it or not and uh
it's real reliable believe i i mean i've had it for almost four years now and up until oh say two weeks ago it had never had anything wrong with it
uh-huh
and then of course two weeks ago it decided i don't know it's the strangest weirdest thing in the world but it blew a head gasket
uh-oh
didn't do any damage to it um i caught it real early
uh-huh at how many
at how many miles
um oh ninety seven thousand so it's not real early
huh
and you didn't overheat it
no never overheated it i smell i smelled the uh i smelled the coolant
uh-huh
went out and looked saw it was coming saw where it was coming from drove it right to the shop and left it off
huh well that was minimum
and that was it because i i have that and then i have a a Kawasaki motorcycle
uh-huh
which is actually the usually my preferred mode of transportation if i can take it and it's not raining
yeah
i mean that's that's sort of my hobby though more than a vehicle it it's a i don't know people who buy motorcycles for transportation i think are kidding themselves
i have one colleague that uh commutes to work on one when it's not raining and uh uh
he's a it's
he's pretty conservative guy i don't think it's much of a sport for him i guess uh
i know but i bet you he really enjoys riding it
i'm sure he does yeah
yeah so you know you how when was the last time you took out took your truck out just to just to go driving
yeah
no
and i go out twice a week on the bike so at least just for the enjoyment
yeah it's like
yeah
but yeah i i mean the only thing i think i might get in a new car or not necessarily a new car but a another car um i would consider going to a a non
to a normal pickup rather than a a covered pickup like the one i got just because there's a lot of times i wished i had the uh just an open bed to throw stuff in
right yeah
i'm sure i'm sure that that's very i mean you got one it's that's really convenient just be able to throw that sort of stuff in the back and
if i only had some place that i could store the uh camper top i would have it off most of the time
right
i really leave it on there just for just to have it out of the way because it put it on the ground it gets dirty
and to have have it out of the way right
but uh yeah they're solid uh trucks are built uh i mean
i think they last a lot longer than anything else
they're the only things Americans still know how to build and uh
yeah yeah the trucks do um even though you know the Jap the little Jap trucks are are good there too but so are the though i think the Chevys i don't think the Chevy i don't like the Chevys as much as i like the Fords
yeah
i think they i think the Fords tend to last a little longer least until recently
right
i kind of like mine yeah so mine's a Ford and uh
a friend of mine just bought or bought like a year ago it's it's a really a nice truck i mean i don't like Dodges at all but one of the Dodges they have out now has a uh the Cummins turbo diesel in it
oh i heard about that yes
ah it's beautiful that thing that thing will last forever i mean
yeah
that's the that's a serious truck
oh yeah that thing's uh that it's got a boat engine in it
right this uh i i know a contractor who just got one of those and he's pleased with it
uh-huh
