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I love that name, Bob Beattie.
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That is like a cargo.
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He has like the white beard.
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Give him a little grandfather.
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Easy on that wildcat there, Robin.
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Lifeless Cars Community.
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We are excited here for this episode where we have two special guests joining
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us tonight, one being my mom and my aunt, whom they're going to share some stories from
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cars from their childhood in high school growing up.
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I'm told that they have some infamous cars in their past, so I'm excited to hear from
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the two of them since they happen to be together here and here to share those stories.
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I can't wait to hear it.
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There's nothing like talking car stories, and it's an honored guest to have your
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Let's go ahead and welcome them in.
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I'm going to welcome them into the call here.
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How are you, Mrs. Henry?
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This is my sister, Mrs. Capoglis.
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First name, because I'll never get that.
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A pleasure to meet you.
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Thanks for chiming in on a Saturday night.
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When Ian Calden said we're going to talk cars, I was like, I can make this work.
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I spent the day driving around with a mutual friend of the Uninars that was in my high
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We were driving a 65 Buick convertible around today.
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Said the 66 Mustang out, so it was a great day.
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Great day for the convertibles.
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We had, we were in the big truck, we were in the big truck, we were in the big Chevy
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Three quarter ton, one ton, half ton.
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I gave you all the information that I have.
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It's a Chevy truck.
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So yeah, so I'm excited to talk to you too about basically, like, I mean, I was
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already asking Ian, like a million questions, just like, like, do they remember
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like their grandparents' cars or like their parents' cars?
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Like, what did they have growing up and like that, that's really the whole theme
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is just talking about the cars that you guys like grew up with.
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And I'm sure you have some stories as we all do, right?
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That's the nature of the podcast, right?
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We'll fill in some blanks if we can.
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So when you said our parents' cars, it was funny because my dad got a Plymouth Valiant
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When we knew Haven.
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When we moved to New Haven.
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Because I wanted a convertible.
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My mother wanted a convertible.
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We were then a family of three.
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So a convertible little car was a very practical car.
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Because you could just put the top down and hose it out because it can't get a very
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A fourth child came along.
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So, you know, and this was, you know, before a car seat.
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So really, it didn't matter, you know, right?
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Just, yeah, in their top down or not.
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So that was about car seats, whatever.
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Pack them all in their cars.
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And when you look back as being a parent now, like, what were they thinking?
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It was turquoise with a white top and beautiful.
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They were thinking like, Ian, I want a nice convertible car.
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I get the thinking.
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I guess there's some genetics there or something, but.
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So then we graduated from that to the Lincoln Continental with the doors open like that.
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That's what they're called is because the rear doors would open the opposite direction
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And they got that name because people would open them and a car would come and take the
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door right out of their hands like, whoa, okay.
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That didn't happen.
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So I think that was really the nature of it, why we ended up with that.
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And that's, it's a big, big car.
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From the Plymouth Valiant convertible to the suicide doors.
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It's perfect for a growing family.
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It's either like a suburban or the Lincoln Continental.
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You get the kid can lay along the top shelf in the back window, right?
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I'm sure we did that.
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I mean, it made me do that.
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Are you the youngest Nancy?
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I'm the youngest daughter.
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I have two older sisters.
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Which is your favorite sister?
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Oh, I'm stirring the pot.
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I just, yeah, just had to ask real quick.
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I could gang up, we could gang up on my brother, which was the most important part.
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So, so the Lincoln Continental, do you remember, do you remember more about the Lincoln or
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was it just like the doors and it was, was it black or blue or green?
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I was thinking more blue, but maybe it was blue, green.
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Maybe another like turquoise, like, no, no, it wasn't like the little car.
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It was like a dark green.
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We'll go with dark green.
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You know, I had the power window and locks and stuff I was like unheard of.
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Was that the part that we got stuck in up in Saratoga for mom's reunion?
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Oh, you have to elaborate on that.
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So we went to my mother's college reunion up in Saratoga.
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She went to Skidmore and we were all in the Lincoln and we stayed, you know, I think we
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stayed in the dorm.
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I remember I slept in one of the closets.
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And I slept in the window sill.
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I slept in the closet.
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You went to a college dorm there?
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Yeah, just figured out.
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We threw all the luggage in the back of the really big trunk.
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Slammed it down, went to go.
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Keys, of course, were in the luggage.
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In the trunk on a Sunday.
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In Saratoga, New York.
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It's around four kids.
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And for the listener, like this is, this is obviously before there was secondary
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latches to get into the trunk and you had to have keys.
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There was no remote release.
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60, probably 68 is the old, or the newest it could have possibly
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And we had been a reunion generation.
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We were ready to go home.
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Not sitting upon a lot.
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We lined up in the back.
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Like, okay, we're ready.
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This was your reunion.
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We slept in closets.
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Do you remember how you got the key that did you like, did your
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dad like get a screwdriver and like,
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No, we finally got a locksmith to show up, but it was, in my
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perception, it was hours.
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It probably was not nearly as long as we remember, but it was.
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That's my Lincoln memory.
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That is that's funny.
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See all the kids lined up in the back seat, just like, okay,
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Like we're not talking anymore.
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Fun story related to that is I've done that before.
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So this, um, this 66 GTO convertible that was Ken Olson's
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car, when I first started working on it, I did the same
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Like I don't know what I was thinking, but I left the keys in
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the trunk and he didn't have any spares.
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And I closed it and I was like, okay.
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I don't want to damage sound.
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And you know it as soon as you do.
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And I was like, how do I, how do I get in without damaging
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And I actually ended up,
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I took the rear seat bottom out and then unscrewed the back
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seat and like got a magnet in like all the way to the trunk
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and like snake the keys out.
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It was a pain in the butt.
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Sitting around for four hours for some locksmith somewhere
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My dad was like, you know,
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I'm gonna make a screwdriver and just, you know,
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pop it right in there and turn it.
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I was like, no, I'm not doing that.
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So where do we think the Lincoln is today?
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Cause I love those.
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Probably where the sailboat is.
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At the bottom of the sea?
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Well, that could be.
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It is no longer with us.
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It is no longer with us.
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No, that didn't, it didn't make it to Bramford.
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I don't think that would be okay.
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I'm vivid memory of it in the driveway.
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And I actually just had it happen.
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I had the Mustang parked next to a continental convertible at
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the garage I take it to happen to be the same day I was
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And it's like the continental is like a full,
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like two feet longer than the Mustang.
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I took like a picture of it just to see like, this is like,
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and the mustangs, you know, average size,
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And they're luggage and, you know,
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So those were some, when you said childhood, I was like, Oh
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You remember any others of it or like as you,
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as your parents got older.
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So my mom had it like a series of say station wagons.
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And there was one that she had a Pontiac Turquoise.
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Had a thing for Turquoise, I think.
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I don't know what it was called, but it had like the pointy
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things in the front and it was huge.
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Oh, so it was the, what is that?
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The Safari Pontiac Safari wagon.
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Too much modern credit there.
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Maybe like Catalina.
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They had, they had a special name for them.
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I think Catalina sounds closer than the other one.
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We went to dad's law office one day and there was these
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beautiful little brick entry ways.
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Like a portico that drove through.
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My mom was pulling in and I clearly saw she was going
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It was narrow and she was going to hit it,
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but I also feared that she was going to yell at me.
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So I chose the option to say nothing and she hit it.
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So that point is no longer pointed.
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And then of course then I'm like, I knew you're going to hit it.
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I said that, which I shouldn't have.
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She's like, why didn't you say something?
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I'm like, I knew you were going to yell at me.
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So, so that was it.
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So that's my memory of that particular vehicle.
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So my recollection of that vehicle relates directly to
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the movie, the way, way back.
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That it had the fold up seat and you fought over.
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It's it in the back and look out back and weave it.
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Oh, it was the best.
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So that was our way, way back.
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We had, we had a Ford woody side one that had also the way,
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way back, which I thought was a more class like a country
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Or like maybe like a LTD.
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Like, but with the fake wood siding.
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Ever like the Kmart version.
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We're looking for the lower end model.
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It's probably an LPB.
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See though, doesn't it.
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But yeah, that way, way back.
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That was like prime real estate.
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Oh, it was the best.
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Like I remember riding as a kid in Volvo's that had those
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My favorite and Orbuic road master, like those wagons,
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they had the rear facing seat.
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Being a kid sitting back there until you get.
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Then mom and dad weren't too happy.
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It messes with all the people behind you with so much.
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Get a piece of paper and crayons and write help me.
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Just to see what kind of reaction you can get from people.
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Oh, the possibilities.
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It's like a playground back there.
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You were out of sight out of maybe mine, but yeah.
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So, so now this, I,
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this is like a really good transition question,
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which is all those cars.
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Were any of those ones that you were learning to drive on?
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Or were we not there yet?
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Like I could totally picture like either one of you driving
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the limited wagon or the, the Catalina.
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They could just be like, what am I doing?
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I don't remember either.
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Had to be the one of the beauty balance.
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I think at that point,
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my mom would have had her oldsmobile.
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I think at that point,
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my mom would have had her oldsmobile cutlass collection.
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Like a cutlass Sierra.
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Look at you with the memory.
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you both can't be more than what like Ian's how old.
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you can't be older than, you know,
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I don't know what I remember.
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I remember dad driving with me,
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Fields parking lot.
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That's a really good question.
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you think about it as we keep talking,
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maybe it'll come back to you.
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Cause I don't remember.
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I remember it was J.M.
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Fields parking lot.
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But I can't tell you about driving with my dad.
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we'll have a driver's ed.
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You remember what that.
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I think that would be a great,
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Like we have so many different takes on what that looks
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But do you remember what the car was for drivers?
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it was like one of those like little K car kind of things.
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There were like the little square ones.
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Like a gremlin or something there.
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It wasn't a gremlin.
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I thought it was like, okay.
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Was there a car called an Omega?
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That sounds familiar.
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Was that an oldsmobile?
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Does that sound like something.
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Sounds like something they would do.
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it was like how a kid would draw.
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You would draw that.
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The kids would draw that.
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It's a little tiny square car.
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Put an extra steering wheel in there and wish them well.
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And the pedals on both sides.
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so that would be another episode that we'll happily fill in because
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did you have grand alpha that?
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Oh, that's awesome.
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good nuggets for that.
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I've got some fun stories about drivers.
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That would be good.
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You haven't done it yet.
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Put it in the file.
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We'll keep it in the queue.
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so where does that transition happen for the,
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like they like learning to drive and like getting the first car,
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cause we left off with the Carolina, the wagons.
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we can continue the journey.
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And then mom had the Oldsmobile series.
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now her children are older and she could have a fancier car.
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So she abandoned the station wagon for an old cutlass.
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Well, there's a lot to that.
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Where we lived called Beaties,
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frequent there for both gas and service.
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And then when it came time for us to have us being the
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kids having a vehicle would reach out to Beaties and
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say, Hey, you know, I need a safe,
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big car for my kids.
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they're going to be out on their own and want to make sure there's
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of steel wrapped around them so that they're safe,
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safe when they're driving.
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Can you find me something?
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So it was no shopping around.
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He went directly to Beaties and said,
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It's a mile from our home.
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Like it was right there.
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the first car that he found for myself and my older son,
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and my older sister, um, was a Buick Wildcat.
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Oh, you know what it is?
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Bren is a big GM guy.
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Do you think rough era of what year it might have been?
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Let's say Kathy would have been 16 in 74.
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Does that make sense?
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Cause it probably was like a late,
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like a late 60, like maybe 70, 71 Wildcat.
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Cause it's very used and very junky.
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So probably a late 60s.
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But I'm sure it had tons of power,
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light the rear tires up like nothing.
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But it was 40 because it was two door.
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That was when my dad.
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So it's sporty for you too.
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We had a lot of ball tires with it.
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Mystery magic oil went into it quite frequently and.
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So we went through that in our high school years.
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And then it went into.
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I think it was my freshman year in college.
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My sister's sophomore year in college.
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So it lasted us maybe three years.
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That had a good run.
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That's pretty good.
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I mean it went from Connecticut to New York to New Jersey and
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And round and round and round again.
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It got up and moved.
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I mean, I'm like sporty in name only have like with the two doors.
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One of those things where you turn the wheel and it kind of rocks.
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So the real question is when can I get you to buy another wild cat
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because that's we could get a convertible wild cat.
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You know, and I did.
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Tough sell like Ian's a wild cat.
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You know, in the family, you know,
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Arizona and Kentucky and UNH.
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So maybe we should have a family wild cat vehicle.
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I think you should do that.
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Turquoise wild cat convertible.
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And Turquoise is the family colors.
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Turquoise and white.
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Oh, I think we found our car.
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So it'll have about six feet sticking out of the garage out
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We're putting an addition for the car.
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Well, I'll happily store it for you.
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You might have availability, right?
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So that was the monster first car that.
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Biddy bomb number one.
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Biddy bomb number one.
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Biddy bomb number two.
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I don't, you don't have anything on that one.
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Biddy bomb number two was very short lived.
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Um, so the, the wild cat died.
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And not surprising.
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And, um, so then my dad got us another Biddy bomb.
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A Ford Torino wagon.
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You say us, you and Kathy.
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My older sister, not the younger sister.
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Uh, so this was like.
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A summer car and eventually we were going to go back to college
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and share it again.
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So my dad gave my other sister specific orders.
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She worked in New Haven, like go to work and come home.
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They bought it that day.
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They bought the first one to drive it.
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Do not go out afterwards.
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Don't bring anybody home.
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Is that in the other thing?
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Of course she went out afterwards and.
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Well, she drove somebody home after work.
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Somebody home after work.
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That didn't go well.
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So I never got to drive the Ford Torino wagon.
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That was supposed to be shared with me.
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And I got to, um, that summer,
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then take my moped to work every day.
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I got the moped on a 25 cent raffle ticket.
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Um, and it was one of the old fashion ones where if it
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It was like, yeah, it was slow.
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And like to go up a hill,
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you had to pedal to get up the hill because.
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It was like, it was like a bicycle with a, you know, a motor.
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it was so heavy to get the motor up the hill.
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So it was harder to pedal up the hill than a bike.
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It was a straight line.
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Do not go on an incline.
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So that was my summer.
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So I was very angry with my sister for that summer because
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that car lasted for a day.
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I never even sat in the driver's seat.
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So it was totaled the day you bought it.
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no one got like too hurt or anything.
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You mean that Robin didn't kill her?
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That's, that's possibility too.
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And it was just like my parents.
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you'll have to take the moped.
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I'm like, thank you.
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Like 25 cent moped.
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It does come down to that.
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it's worth 10 times that in scrap cause it weighs 400 pounds.
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So I don't know how that all ended, but it ended, but.
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So then I decided not to go back to my college in New York
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and was unsure and decided to be a commuter student for my
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And so then that required said car,
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which no longer existed.
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We didn't want to do the moped back and forth.
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Not take the moped across the bridge.
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That was head on the bridge.
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No, we went back to BDs again and I asked, you know,
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and my dad at this point,
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I think had a soft spot in his heart after not driving
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the Torino wagon, which is supposed to be sporty.
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And then I went back.
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Hey, compared to a wild cat.
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Oh, it's a sports, it's a sports car.
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Very nice sports car.
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Then he found or BD found a.
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We got a fellow 1971 Mustang.
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Oh, I figured out what sporty looks like.
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Like fully committed here to the sportiness.
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So it was a very, very cool car.
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And I kind of was in shock that they actually figured it all out.
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My new commuter car to go to college my sophomore year.
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So finally a score.
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I mean, I want a fun car.
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It was a little more nimble than the wild cat.
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Definitely more sporty.
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Still needed rear tires though.
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So that was fabulous.
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I had one incident where a state cop followed me because evidently I got on to the highway using,
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I'm not even going to remember the de-accelerator lane or the accelerator lane.
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I don't know what it was, but he followed me forever and pulled me over to tell me all
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that, that I used the wrong lane to cross and this, that and the other thing.
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Anyway, took him to court and I won.
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I don't think I've heard this a little bit.
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He was just trying to pull over a cute young thing, get her number and she took him to court.
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So it turned out my dad is a lawyer and he gave me somebody from the firm and that lawyer said
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exactly the same thing.
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Like he was just trying to and he's like, we're going to get like, let's get going.
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So that was kind of a, yeah.
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So that was kind of fun.
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And, but it was really funny.
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He's like, all right, you're going to court, like, dress your best.
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And I'm like, what does that mean?
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Do you have a monogram sweater?
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Dressed up and showed up at court and, you know, so.
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So then I got the yellow mutt dang.
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Why and when did I get it?
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Yeah, I can't believe you gave it up Robin.
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Um, and then you were, what were you doing dancing still?
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I could have been dancing.
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And there was an episode where my car almost got stolen.
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Um, parked downtown in New Haven and literally they found it with
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the screwdriver in the ignition.
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It got that far, but they somehow scared off or whatever.
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Um, so then my car has.
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Into the shop to get a new ignition put in.
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We're talking about, I forget.
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Well, when I was driving the Ford Mustang, I was in college.
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Anyway, I was waitressing.
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That makes me think I was in college.
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And I finished my shift and got out at like 11 o'clock that
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night, went out to get my car and it was stolen.
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Festival this time in stealing the Ford.
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I was distraught and back to the bar.
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Yes, we'll do, you know, the whole thing.
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So ultimately they ended up finding it, but whether it was a
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screwdriver, whatever they did, totally screwed up the
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Like they got it back and they fixed it.
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I can drive this again.
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But apparently once you screw up the electrical system, it's
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never really quite the same.
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I would have periodic instances where things would go
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And when the electrical system goes wrong, there's not an easy
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And so I remember telling Ian about this.
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One time we were, I was with my friend and her cousin who's
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And we were in Newport, Rhode Island.
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And I don't know if you've been to Newport, Rhode Island,
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but the pitch is very steep.
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Leaving Newport because her cousin had to like make a
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plane, you know, either that night or in the morning, I
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And so we were driving and as we're going up the big
29:36
Newport bridge, just cut out what would happen with this
29:43
And like every time I would bring it in, they're like,
29:45
well, we'll fix this.
29:47
And it just stopped.
29:50
And so we pulled over and luckily somebody came by and
29:55
helped us and picked to a point where we could then like get
29:58
it back to Newport, pulled it into this family garage.
30:03
And I mean, like, not an auto garage.
30:05
Like this was a family that had a garage.
30:10
You know, sons who would work on this car and were like,
30:15
we need to get home.
30:16
I got to get this guy back to Germany.
30:18
I don't know what's going on.
30:19
My friend's name was Robin.
30:22
So we sat and they put it together.
30:27
Charged us nothing, of course.
30:29
So we went down the corner, got a case of beer, brought it back
30:34
Like, thank you so much.
30:35
Of course, of course.
30:37
So then we did actually carry on and get home from that.
30:44
I mean, then that bridge is.
30:48
It's a roller coaster.
30:49
Like, especially if you were, yeah, you're like,
30:55
We were on our way.
30:56
And it just caught.
30:57
I was like, there's, there's nothing here is working.
31:03
It's like, I love hearing that that you just like found these
31:06
people that just, it wasn't a service station.
31:08
It was just like people that were like, Oh yeah,
31:11
we can help fix that and get you back on the road.
31:14
Like I just love hearing that.
31:16
It was, they were amazing.
31:18
But getting back to when the first time the yellow Mustang was
31:22
almost stolen and we don't have names for our vehicles, Ian.
31:26
We thought about it.
31:29
They're named everything.
31:35
While the yellow thing was being repaired,
31:38
BD gave me, you know,
31:40
a replacement car in the meantime.
31:42
And I think one of your questions, Ian was like,
31:44
is there a car that you.
31:46
Wish you had or whatever.
31:50
The question be like of these cars in your past,
31:52
do any of them stand out that you wish you could have again in
32:04
Just wait, Brendan. Yeah.
32:08
Um, so while my yellow Mustang was being repaired,
32:12
they gave me a 66 Mustang.
32:16
And it was like a little green one and it was like adorable.
32:20
And I just, I loved that car.
32:23
And I was like, can I keep this one instead?
32:25
Like I want this one.
32:26
And I don't, I don't, it obviously didn't work out,
32:29
but that would have been the one I'm like, I adored.
32:32
It was just smaller.
32:33
It wasn't like that sleek long back, like the, you know,
32:37
It was just like, I just adored that car.
32:40
And I was like, I want this one.
32:42
And you didn't even name.
32:44
Well, I only had it for like two months. Yeah.
32:47
You shouldn't have named it.
32:49
You guys, you guys technically didn't name them because it's
32:51
Beatty Bopper one, Beatty Bopper two.
32:53
That's Beatty Bopper loner.
33:02
So we have to take just a real quick sidebar.
33:05
Like how was your reaction when you found out Ian bought
33:09
You must have been ecstatic.
33:11
I was pretty pleased with that decision.
33:13
And I think I probably showed my favoritism when he was like,
33:17
I don't know if I should do it. I'm like, you should do it.
33:21
You were with me. I was like, buy it.
33:25
You're like, you know, you're gifted in finding cars.
33:28
And I was like, Brandon is endorsing this.
33:31
You have to do this.
33:34
So thank you, Brandon.
33:36
And I think it's brought him a lot of joy. So.
33:41
It's a great car and it's a beautiful car.
33:44
And it's perfect for Ian down in the same color.
33:46
I didn't, I didn't have a convertible, which is fine.
33:49
But I did like that green color that it came in.
33:56
Ivy green is the color.
33:59
Was it black interior, black interior?
34:03
Was it manual or automatic?
34:07
We can get into other manual stories.
34:11
No, you should tell them.
34:14
But no, it was, it was automatic.
34:16
Wasn't that a beauty?
34:19
That was that we were talking about. Yeah.
34:21
You got us on a lot of car talking today.
34:24
Oh, that's what it's about.
34:25
That's what we're here to do.
34:28
We love that. Just keep it going. So.
34:30
So to go back to the timeline though.
34:32
So you had the, the 66 Mustang loner.
34:37
And then while the 71 was being repaired from the first theft.
34:44
And then I got it back and then.
34:47
You had to give back the 66.
34:50
Reluctantly get that back.
34:51
And I guess I had it like my sophomore year,
34:53
but I think you then got it my junior year maybe,
34:56
but then I moved on campus.
34:57
So I think that's when you got it.
34:59
So then it got stolen.
35:00
It was just never the same after I got stolen.
35:05
I didn't imagine how that would feel like you come out from more
35:08
like work and you're like,
35:10
I'm sure the car was right here.
35:16
And I do remember another, even before it was stolen,
35:19
I remember like, you know, the console,
35:21
like where your radio is and all of that,
35:23
there was like a plastic frame around, you know, that held.
35:26
And it wasn't like sealed.
35:29
So it just jiggled all the time.
35:32
So as you're driving,
35:33
it's like bang, bang, bang.
35:34
And I remember driving somebody was in the passenger seat,
35:37
like, what is, like it drove them nuts.
35:40
And like they would hold it.
35:41
And that was like all these little jiggly things
35:44
that would just go wrong with these.
35:47
I was just going to say,
35:48
get the duct tape on this.
35:51
And I remember trying to just like,
35:54
the whole console shaped the whole time.
35:57
the thing is it looked great from the outside.
35:59
It was just a, yeah.
36:01
It looked great on the inside.
36:03
Oh no, the poor thing just reminds you.
36:05
So when did that reach the end of its life?
36:07
I think it was after,
36:09
so we had the Newport incident.
36:11
I think there was another one and then it became clear like,
36:14
this is not a safe car to drive.
36:18
If it had a name, it would have been lucky.
36:23
And I think then maybe that's when I got that.
36:27
We have a mystery car that she got next from.
36:29
The car that I drove when I was in college and I also was a commuter.
36:33
And it was all I can say was a big blue car.
36:37
The BD mystery car.
36:44
One of the key features of this car was,
36:47
you know, there's like a gas pedal in cars.
36:51
Some of them have those.
36:54
It's a good thing to have.
36:58
So generally there's like a gas pedal and you put your foot on it and you go,
37:07
Here's the gas pedal and there was like a little like pivot thing underneath it.
37:10
So if I put my foot up here, the gas pedal would just do that.
37:15
The car would not go.
37:17
Or if I had to hit the rod, there was a rod that actually articulated.
37:21
One little center that you had to hit and order for the car to go.
37:26
Meaning you had no control over your, your zero to 60, zero to 20.
37:33
It was all just, just for the college kidneys.
37:37
So if you managed to get your foot on the gas pedal in the right way,
37:41
you went forward at some indiscriminate speed.
37:47
You had to go all over that.
37:50
So that's great when you're like commuting over the Q bridge and yeah.
37:54
Just don't know when it's going to just lurch or maybe it won't go at all.
37:59
It's pretty much only lurched.
38:02
Honestly, I think I'd rather take that than having that be with the brake pedal.
38:08
It's still, it's, it's a little, it's a little challenging.
38:11
Like when you're trying to drive on the highway and you're like,
38:13
I'm going to pass you.
38:16
That's when you just, you just take your shoes off.
38:18
You just use your toe and just, just find it just right.
38:22
And with that spot, that was great.
38:25
Why do you have a two by four strap to your gas pedals?
38:28
Like, well, let me tell you.
38:29
That's what I should have done.
38:31
And so this was also the car that broke down a lot and taught me a lot about cars.
38:38
And I spoke with Ian earlier about this that had like the butterfly thing.
38:44
Is that related to the carburetor where you have to keep like the butterfly thing?
38:53
Like you would start.
38:55
There's a butterfly.
38:56
And then it would flood because, you know, you can't control the gas.
39:00
And so it would flood.
39:01
And so I would open up the hood and I learned to like open up the butterfly
39:06
thing and I would put a stick in it to keep it open.
39:09
So then go back in the car.
39:11
I don't know how I, this was before Google.
39:14
Like I don't know how I knew how to do this,
39:17
but then it would go in and start my car.
39:19
And then I would go out, take out the stick, close the lid or the hood and
39:26
Hey, problem solving.
39:27
You had that from that car.
39:30
The car did eventually die.
39:33
And it died in the parking lot of my college.
39:38
So I've left it there because it was in the parking lot.
39:42
I have a sticker like whatever it can stay there.
39:45
I was in class and campus security came to my class and pulled me out.
39:59
And so they pulled me out of class and they're like, uh, you have to move
40:03
I'm like, nobody can move that car.
40:07
That's why it worked there is because I can't move that car.
40:11
I wouldn't have moved that car.
40:13
So thankfully I had the BD's number on, well, it was speed dial.
40:19
But it was memorized.
40:21
So the BD's phone number wasn't memorized by me.
40:26
And so they're like, yep, call the tow truck, have them tow it here.
40:30
And we will take care of it.
40:35
They were as good to send a tow truck.
40:37
I knew like my home phone number and I knew the BD phone number.
40:41
Now I actually had a very similar scenario with me when I was in
40:47
So the car I had in college was actually Dr. Bradigan's Cadillac,
40:52
that silver Cadillac he had.
40:53
The box that always broke down.
40:59
So I actually, I was sitting my first class of the day one
41:02
morning in the fall computer class.
41:05
And I'm sitting at the terminal and the head of like
41:10
campus PD called me.
41:13
Like, you know, number.
41:15
Like right before class started.
41:16
He's like, hey, you, he's like, you're the owner of that silver Cadillac
41:19
that you parked down in the lot.
41:23
He's like, I just hate to tell you like it got broken into last
41:27
And someone had smashed out the driver window and it was sitting
41:31
there with the hood up and the trunk open.
41:33
And it was just like, I was devastated.
41:37
I mean, you know, as Ian knows, like I love cars.
41:39
Like I was, I was like freaking out.
41:41
I was like, Oh my God, who could do this to my baby?
41:46
And it's just anyway, they didn't take anything that they
41:50
You could see where like they tried to rip the dash apart to
41:53
get the radio out, but couldn't get to it.
41:56
So anyway, I'm sure the alarm finally scared them off, but I
42:00
dusted the glass off the driver's seat and I closed
42:04
everything up and I didn't have anything in it loose.
42:07
So I drove it over to a glass place and they put a new
42:10
window in it, but yeah, I hated it because for the longest
42:14
time after they fixed the window, I would close the
42:18
driver's door and you could hear some glass rattling in
42:21
the bottom that was like, they didn't vacuum out.
42:24
So like it was a cool reminder.
42:26
It's like the rattling console they had, Nancy.
42:33
It's like that feeling though.
42:39
And he called me just like, why are you calling me?
42:43
I feel like fresh past, you know, it's like my car, you
42:53
And then yeah, so when obviously the car was not
42:56
functioning and I was a commuter.
42:58
So I don't know if I was taking the bus.
43:05
Somehow getting to school.
43:07
And then I was at my apartment and I had a final the
43:10
next day when I couldn't get the car started, like just
43:14
And so I asked my roommate, like, can I borrow your car?
43:17
Like I have an exam final exam and like, you know, 20
43:20
minutes or whatever.
43:21
And my car's not starting.
43:23
And she's like, yeah, sure.
43:25
And gave me the keys and it was a standard.
43:27
So in high school, I had a boyfriend who had an MG
43:30
and luckily, he tried to teach me how to drive stick on this,
43:34
you know, prized MG.
43:42
Good clarification.
43:44
Not sure I ever really conquered that, but I was like,
43:50
Yeah, clutch, whatever.
43:52
So I had minimal experience in high school.
43:54
This is five, six, seven years later, no problem.
43:57
on the highway I have to and she I did I figured out how to drive stick to get to
44:03
my exam in her I think we were talking about it was either a pinto or a vega
44:08
yep yeah yeah and it did get me to my exam and I somehow figured out how to
44:17
drive a stick to him and you've been driving manuals ever since yeah
44:22
absolutely this yeah yeah but a little bit for you right yeah yeah in a
44:30
pinch you're just like okay that's the only way it's gonna happen roll your
44:34
sleeves up we're doing it yeah we are doing it I think that might be the end of
44:40
our bd collection is the bd collection I think I love it what a great segment the
44:49
I think that might be it there could be more we'll think of it tomorrow I know we
44:54
can ask our brother to he might he might have two cents but as he would have been
44:58
driving well he would have been learning to drive after the two of you at that
45:02
point yeah so he would have had to have something no he drove mom's cut list oh
45:08
he did yeah he was he was so he's the youngest yeah yeah spoiled rotten spoiled
45:15
rod yeah yeah and the boy no he drove mom's cars of course we couldn't yeah he
45:24
could do no wrong how we learned we did not drive my mother's cars to learn how
45:30
to drive so even when he crashed her car we don't talk about it wasn't his fault
45:35
it was his fault thank you it's Ian Scott I was gonna say like I have to
45:42
stand up for Scott here yeah we love you Scott oh my goodness yeah I mean it's
45:56
so I I also it brings to mind so was it was Beatty's garage the one that like so
46:01
it was the mobile station it also had the whole like vegetable garden out back
46:04
was that yes I like I wanted to ask about that because that this is what sticks
46:10
that's what I remember from like as a kid going to you know grab your pop-ups and
46:14
Bradford and like oh yeah let's go get some veggies they're like we're at a
46:17
gas station so what used to be the car graveyard was now the farm yeah I mean my
46:27
like eight-year-old brain was more you know caught up with the car stuff but
46:31
then it was like oh we're also getting corn and I'm curious I'm curious though if
46:42
we go back down there there might be a blue car parked out back there that we
46:47
mystery you know I have no idea but like yeah if you can research like I think
46:55
the gas pedal swivel how big was it was it as big as the Lincoln Continental it
47:03
was pretty close it was a big car no recall I immediately think either a full
47:09
size Buick or Cadillac okay okay so maybe like a full-size Buick or Chevy like an
47:20
Paula maybe never be a Chevy either interesting so yeah was there a big
47:25
Pontiac Catalina or Bonneville Pontiac Bonneville they had the two plus two was
47:32
a huge station wagon way back when oh a Bonneville station wagon yeah those are
47:41
the big ones and old will be a lot of you see had like the 98 in the 88
47:47
to the cutlist thing yeah yeah so the kids got all the beady bombs my mom all
47:54
the old mobiles I know I was just trying to think of like my car yeah and in
48:00
Brendan's on the case here he's gonna yeah he's gonna solve it based like it was
48:06
it obviously was American because it was huge maybe it was like a Ford or a
48:09
Chrysler and not a GM or something I would work a Ford would probably be the
48:15
right area maybe a Buick but I think that would limit it to those yeah I mean was
48:22
your family growing up where like because I know there was like oh I were a Chevy
48:26
family or a Ford family and everything like seems like were you steeped in one
48:31
brand around seems like you had several well you guys went all around with the
48:36
right all around the beady bombers but we were pretty distinctive of what we weren't
48:42
correct that makes sense so like Chevy we weren't Cadillac but it also goes to
48:48
World War two with dad so we were not you were not Japan yeah like yeah yeah when
48:54
I bought my first Japanese car my father was livid with me and I didn't
48:59
understand the whole thing and then I did yeah interesting very interesting
49:05
yeah was yeah what's that what was that little car mom was a my Dodge Colt the
49:11
Dodge Colt that's like built on it right yeah it was built on a Mitsubishi like a
49:21
little Mitsubishi yeah yeah yeah it's it's why you don't want to know what goes on
49:29
I'm telling you Nancy just all car things all the time I'm gonna be standing by for
49:35
when you figure out what car I go I know maybe it was like a Ford Galaxy oh like
49:43
a that's a big Ford Galaxy I don't know that could be my carburetor thing oh
49:52
yeah oh yeah yeah yeah I might know it did it have a shifter on the column or was
50:00
it but you were automatic yeah yeah but the drive thing oh oh got it yeah it had
50:09
to be two door or four door two door is it this or is it this yeah was it a
50:17
sedan or was it two doors I believe it was a sedan and I believe it was on the
50:22
column interesting okay all of these could be lies yeah we'll see what you're
50:28
gonna have to do now is in your spare time is you'll just have to Google you
50:32
know 60s Ford sedans we'll do this over and just look at like a list of all the
50:37
images that's the one or 70 70 one college in the 80s it's probably 70s yeah
50:45
yeah that's that's what I would do if there's one that's really bugging your
50:49
brain that's good it please you have to make sure you let me know mystery blue
51:00
car who knows I mean maybe it's like another Ford LPD you just you just
51:06
blocked it out of your memory you just know nope the blue bomber the blue beady
51:11
blue beady bomber yep yep I love it they see you guys say you don't name cars you
51:19
just named them all so yeah well and then the sweetest thing was that Mike Beatty
51:27
the owner or well Bob Beatty Bob Beatty and then he was the son but he came to my
51:32
dad and it was just like I forget who I was with we're like who's that I'm
51:37
like well that's our Mike Mike that's Mike Beatty it's like you know he was like
51:42
our legend in our family you know and it was like and then the other person was
51:46
like oh that's my mom's hairdresser you know it was just like really like the
51:50
whole little community came together and showed up amongst other people of
51:54
course but it was just so sweet it was like yeah and you never actually paid
51:58
for gas you drove in they would you know it was all full service and you
52:03
urge to burns like they go in and they'd write it down and like that was it like
52:08
thanks yep of course you're also talking it's like you know five bucks to fill
52:12
the tank up you know yeah but we also you know I remember I never had a gas
52:18
card or we never had anything nothing yeah I was old enough to remember the
52:22
gas ration times were in the 70s yeah the 70s and you had to figure out
52:28
they could go there but Mike would always like ah come on in you know and
52:33
there'd be that you know so it was just you know old-fashioned neighborhood stuff
52:38
so oh yeah it's it does seem a little bit lost these days but it all depends on
52:42
the community you're in yeah well and I it is such like I mean what I know of
52:47
it from as a kid driving by like and and that old garage of like it just
52:52
like is such like the neighborhood garage like it's just nestled along
52:55
this quiet little road along the shoreline and all these little and it
52:59
really that's what I sticks out in my mind when I think of the BD's garage it
53:02
was pretty iconic yes yeah yeah the mobile gas Pegasus yeah well awesome all
53:13
right Westerners take a quick break see on the other side right Bob BD's we
53:20
thank you hey Westerners this is Ian one of the hosts of the
53:25
life plus cars podcast please tune in for part two of our conversation with my mom
53:31
and my aunt Nancy coming into a podcast player near you very soon as always
53:36
thanks so much for listening