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FILENAME:	4002_1450_1405
TOPIC#:		320
DATE:		920223
TRANSCRIBER:	glp
UTT_CODER:	tc
DIFFICULTY:	1
TOPICALITY:	1
NATURALNESS:	3
ECHO_FROM_B:	5
ECHO_FROM_A:	2
STATIC_ON_A:	1
STATIC_ON_B:	1
BACKGROUND_A:	1
BACKGROUND_B:	3
REMARKS:        Speaker B has a television on in the background.

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o          B.1 utt1:  Okay <laughter>.  /  

b^m          A.2 utt1:  Okay <laughter>.  /  

qy          B.3 utt1:  Have you done this very long?  /  

ny          A.4 utt1:  Uh, well, yeah,  /
sd^e          A.4 utt2: for the last, uh, couple of months.   /  

b          B.5 utt1:  Yeah,  /
sd          B.5 utt2: that's the same with us.   /  

b          A.6 utt1:  Yeah.   /  

qw          B.7 utt1:  Well, what kind of car would you buy?   /  

^h          @A.8 utt1:  Well, it's kind of hard to say,  /
sd          @A.8 utt2: uh, because I don't think we're going to buy another car for about three years.  /
sd          @A.8 utt3:  We just --   

bk          B.9 utt1:  Oh, okay.   /  

+          A.10 utt1:  -- bought, uh, a car, uh, last year and then bought one in eighty-nine -- /  

%          B.11 utt1:  O-,  -/  

%          A.12 utt1:  -- and, uh, - /
^h          A.12 utt2: wait a minute,  /
sd          A.12 utt3: we bought one in ninety.  /
sd          A.12 utt4:  We've got <laughter> three cars, of all things. /  

b          B.13 utt1:  Uh-huh.   /  

sd          A.14 utt1:  So, uh, probably we'll be in at least a midsize, four door sedan. /  

b          B.15 utt1:  Okay.  /
qw          B.15 utt2:  What kind do you have now?   /  

sd          A.16 utt1:  Uh, we have a, a Mazda nine twenty nine and a Ford Crown Victoria and a little two seater C R X. /  

bk          B.17 utt1:  Oh, okay.   /  

sv          A.18 utt1:  Uh, <breathing> it's rather difficult to, to project what kind of, uh, - /
sd          A.18 utt2: we'd, look, always look into, uh, consumer reports to see what kind of, uh, report, or, uh, repair records that the various cars have -- /  

b          B.19 utt1:  Uh-huh.   /  

sd          A.20 utt1:  -- and then, of course, we look into the prices.   /  

b          B.21 utt1:  Yeah.   /  

sd          A.22 utt1:  And, uh, f-, uh, we're not adverse to buying along in the summer when, when the cars could get to be discounted  /
sd          A.22 utt2: because we keep, we've begun to keep them, uh, long-, a longer period of time.  /
sd          A.22 utt3:  Uh, I traded off an eighty-two Oldsmobile for the eighty-nine Mazda. /  

b          B.23 utt1:  Oh, uh-huh.   /  

%          A.24 utt1:  So, uh, -/  

qy          B.25 utt1:  And did you find that you like the foreign cars better than the domestic? /  

ny          A.26 utt1:  Uh, yeah,  /
ny^r          A.26 utt2: yeah.  /
sd          A.26 utt3:  We, we've had thirty some odd cars in our married life,  /
sd          A.26 utt4: and, uh, we, we've had a good many foreign cars. /  

b          B.27 utt1:  Uh-huh.   /  

%          A.28 utt1:  And, uh, they, they, uh, - /
sd          A.28 utt2: I've been extremely, - /
sd          A.28 utt3: we've had three Mazdas.  /
sd          A.28 utt4: We've been extremely pleased with our Mazdas. /  

bh          B.29 utt1:  Oh, really?   /  

ny          A.30 utt1:  Yeah.   /  

sd          B.31 utt1:  We've always bought American made cars, mostly Oldsmobiles. /  

b^r          A.32 utt1:  Yeah,  /
%          A.32 utt2: well, we, we've had, uh, - /
^h          A.32 utt3: let's see,  /
sd          A.32 utt4: we had, uh, we had a, uh, - /
^h          A.32 utt5: let me think.  /
sd          A.32 utt6:  {pause} We had a fifty-three  /
sd          A.32 utt7: and a, uh, we had, uh, two fifty-threes which is a long thirty minute story <laughter>. /  

x          B.33 utt1:  <Laughter>.    

sd          A.34 utt1:  Uh, and we had a sixty-five  /
sd          A.34 utt2: and then we had this eighty-two.  /  

b          B.35 utt1:  Uh-huh.   /  

sd          A.36 utt1:  So we, we really can't complain about Oldsmobiles, really. /  

b          B.37 utt1:  Yeah,  /
sd          B.37 utt2: we've been real pleased with ours.  /
sd          B.37 utt3:  I think we've had, one, two, three -- -/  

b          A.38 utt1:  Yeah.   /  

%          B.39 utt1:  -- and most, - /
sd          B.39 utt2: we have a Cutlass, we still have a Cutlass Supreme which is like, a seventy-seven. /  

b          A.40 utt1:  Uh-huh.  /  

sd          B.41 utt1:  Then we have a Cutlass Sierra  /
sd          B.41 utt2: and we've had the ninety-eight. /  

b^r          A.42 utt1:  Uh-huh.  /  

%          B.43 utt1:  So, - /
h          B.43 utt2: but I don't know,  /
sd          B.43 utt3: we'll, we're going to be in the market for a car, probably in the next year  /
sd          B.43 utt4: and <breathing>, the financing is always something we consider, you know, the four percent or when they --   

b^r          A.44 utt1:  Uh-huh. /  

+          B.45 utt1:  -- give good financing through the, the motor company.   /  

b^r          A.46 utt1:  Uh-huh.   /  

sd          B.47 utt1:  But, I don't know what we're going to buy.  /
sv          B.47 utt2:  I always thought I would like to try a foreign made car,  /
sd          B.47 utt3: but, boy, with all the auto workers being laid off, makes me feel guilty <laughter>. /  

b          A.48 utt1:  <Laughter> Well --  -/  

%          B.49 utt1:  So,   -/  

sd          A.50 utt1:  -- uh, my son over in Shreveport, uh, sold Porsches, Audis, Mad-, Mazdas and Volkswagons for ten years  /
sd          A.50 utt2: and that was one of the deciding factors in getting the Mazdas. /  

b          B.51 utt1:  Oh.  /  

sd          A.52 utt1:  Uh, so, uh, the first foreign car that we had was a, a seventy-seven M G, M G B /  

%          B.53 utt1:  Oh the, -/  

sd          A.54 utt1:  Was British gr-, racing green, with real wire wheels and a hard top and a soft top. /  

ba          B.55 utt1:  Ooh, boy.   /  

sd          A.56 utt1:  And, uh, I drove it mostly.  /  

sv          B.57 utt1:  I'll bet --    

%          A.58 utt1:  And,   -/  

+          B.59 utt1:  -- it was hard to part with that.   /  

aa          A.60 utt1:  Yeah,  /
aa          A.60 utt2: it really was.  /
sd          A.60 utt3:  My husband was in the Air Force  /
sd          A.60 utt4: and we got transferred to Okinawa. /  

b          B.61 utt1:  Oh.  /  

sd          A.62 utt1:  So, uh, we had to sell it.  /
sd          A.62 utt2:  W-, which really tore me up <laughter>. /  

b          B.63 utt1:  Oh, yeah.   /  

sv          A.64 utt1:  Because, uh, it, it w-, it was great fun.  /
sd          A.64 utt2:  And then, uh, when we got to Okinawa, well, we bought a second hand,  /
sd          A.64 utt3: we, uh, we decided that, uh, - /
sd          A.64 utt4: we had this, uh, sixty-five Oldsmobile  /
sd          A.64 utt5: and it, and it was just too big,  /
sd          A.64 utt6: so we, we sold it to a fellow who was coming back to the States  /
sd          A.64 utt7: and we got a little Fiat, uh, and a, and the little, uh, forty horse power Mazda, four door sedan. /  

b          B.65 utt1:  Oh.  / 
