Car Talk Interest in Cars
Glenn M: When did you guys get interested in cars?
Tom: That's a good question. I don't think we're interested yet.
Ray: I got interested because … Tom's my older brother...
Tom: Older, wiser and more handsome.
Ray: Anything else?
Tom: That will do for now.
Ray: Tom always had a car. He had a car obviously before I was even close to driving age. He was always tinkering. Every car he ever bought was a jalopy. He's maintained that tradition to this day.
Tom: I have had some beautiful cars, though.
Glenn M.: Which was your favorite?
Tom: Of all the cars I've had, the one I loved the most was my '63 Dodge Dart convertible.
Ray: Ohhh, boy.
Tom: Oh, man.
Glenn M: There are people here who were not born in '63.
Tom: That was a great car.
Ray: No, on it's best day, it was never a great car, but it …
Tom: It had a lot of things wrong with it. You'd put the top down…it wasn't automatic. You had to get out and wrestle with it. It made all kinds of noises, but I knew what every single noise was. I had proven to myself that it was not dangerous. One day I was driving three people in the car, and there was a new noise. I said, "What was that?" And someone said, "What was what?" I said, "That noise." They all started laughing. They said, "Which one?" I knew what every single noise was, and it didn't bother me in the slightest. It was part of the gestalt of the car.
Ray: And, the good news was, as pieces fell off, there was less to go wrong. It finally got to the point where the car had, like, seven moving parts.
Tom: And, none of them was in the engine!
Ray: Not much to go wrong when you have seven moving parts.