What’s the ignition timing on a 1955 Bel Air with a 327 and a four-barrel carb? Trick question—and John Rush and crew are full of the right answers. This week’s Drive Radio dives into real-world car ownership headaches like emissions laws and out-of-state registration workarounds, plus the story of a Barracuda Super Commando and a Volvo purchased while drinking. Get expert advice on front plate laws, injector troubleshooting, scam insurance mailers, and how to test drive smart. Plus, John and Richard review the 2025 Hyundai Santa Fe Hybrid Calligraphy AWD.
SPEAKER 27 :
Being an expert on general automotive knowledge, what would the correct ignition timing be on a 1955 Bel Air Chevrolet with a 327 cubic inch engine and a four-barrel carburetor?
SPEAKER 26 :
It is a trick question. Watch this. The Chevy didn’t make a 327 in 55. The 327 didn’t come out till 62. And it wasn’t offered in the Bel Air with a four-barrel carb till 64. However, in 1964, the correct ignition timing would be four degrees before top dead center.
SPEAKER 05 :
Get ready for another hour of Drive Radio, brought to you by Colorado’s select auto care centers. Got a question for the experts? Then give them a call, 303-477-5600. Now it’s time to pop the hood and get our hands dirty. Drive Radio on KLZ 560 The Source.
SPEAKER 09 :
And we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Again, we’ve got Ken Rackley, Tunetech Automotive, with us today. Patch Knight out of Alltech Automotive up in Fort Collins. Two locations to serve you. You can find both these guys. Just go to our website, drive-radio.com. They’re all listed there. Larry Enger answering phones, of course, for us today. Charlie Grimes, our engineer. Lines are full. As soon as somebody drops off, be sure to call in. 303-477-5600. Ray and Lettleton, you’re next.
SPEAKER 14 :
Hey, John. How you doing? Good, sir. How are you? Well, you know, I’m a little disappointed. The results, I took my 2014 Ford Focus N ST for emissions. Oh, yeah. And years, you know, back in 2016, I upgraded the turbo and the fuel system and so forth. So now, basically, you know, they said return it to stock. I went to their technical. And I’m like, well. Maybe it’s time to sell this car because returning it to stock is really not something that I really want to do. So what are my options as far as trying to sell it either out of state… You know, where the emission laws are, you know, more eco-friendly.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, you’ve got to get that. Yeah, you’ve got to either find somebody that’s willing to assist you in doing that, a dealer, for example. And there are some that have, you know, the ability to sell that out of state where there’s no issues with it and so on. The other option you have is keep the car and register it someplace where it’s out of the emissions area. That is an option, Ray, if you’ve got some… family somebody somewhere even another state whereby you could register that car someplace else and one last tip on that that you can do and a listener actually clued me in on this years ago you can go to a state like south dakota for example and they give you the ability that you have to pay x amount of money and it’s probably 500 bucks 500 bucks or so plus the cost of registration but you can go to another state they allow you to put that car and register it there you’ll get south dakota plates there’s no emissions nothing along those lines and there’s nothing you know below the board here other than technically in colorado if you’re a resident you’re supposed to have your car registered here but i’ll tell you right now ray they got so many other things to worry about when it comes to what’s on the road today that that is the last thing i think They’re looking, I see so many out of state plates, Florida, et cetera, where it’s like, you guys live here. I guarantee you that you’re just able to in Florida. I think you can register a car of a year for like a hundred bucks or something. That’s why they still have Florida plates on them. Right.
SPEAKER 11 :
Or option two is do like a lot of other people and just don’t, Well, that’s true.
SPEAKER 09 :
You just keep driving, right?
SPEAKER 11 :
Just stay out of Aurora or Denver or whatever it is. Good point, Ken.
SPEAKER 09 :
I don’t know. I mean, I see them all the time. I’m kidding on that. They’re probably out four or five years. So, you know, Ray, knock your socks off.
SPEAKER 11 :
I mean, just kidding on that. But that’s, I mean, you know, I see that a lot.
SPEAKER 09 :
I do, too. A lot of expired plates running around, yeah. Really, it does come down to, if you want to sell it, Ray, then yes, you’re going to have to figure out a way to sell it out of state. Or, I’m not joking, you can do the out-of-state registration. There are multiple states now. Montana’s another one that will allow you to do what I just said as well. And that’s what Dirt Legal does. It’s called Dirt Legal, that’s right.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 14 :
You know, honestly, I love the car. It’s got like 63, almost 64,000 miles and everything. But I think I’m just… ready to sell it and move on.
SPEAKER 11 :
You know, so a friend of mine, I was talking to him last weekend, and he had a diesel that was deleted and all that stuff, and he lives in Montrose, but he was, you know, going back and forth with a new truck in Utah, and they said, yeah, no problem with that, you know, being deleted, and he traded it in on a new truck, you know, towards the new truck.
SPEAKER 09 :
There are some that will do that. Most in the front range here, of course, Ray, won’t because they can’t. If you get out of this area, yeah, you can’t.
SPEAKER 14 :
I hear worldwide vintage autos, you know, they advertise on your radio show. I mean, they sell worldwide.
SPEAKER 09 :
They would be one. You find a dealer that can find an out-of-state buyer like them, and that’s the kind of car, Ray, that they would actually look at because that’s unique enough for them to do. Exactly.
SPEAKER 11 :
It’s been allotted and stuff like that. Absolutely. There’s definitely a market for that. Yes. Yeah, you shouldn’t have a problem selling it either.
SPEAKER 17 :
One other thing I was going to mention, I think that if you’ve been to an air carry emission station and you’ve been told that you need to return it to stock, going to another emission station in another town or another county will not help you because it’s flagged.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, yeah, my car is flagged. That’s right.
SPEAKER 09 :
It’s flagged now.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, they told me that. Yep, no matter where you go. And that’s okay. You know, I mean, I love the car, but I’ve got other cars.
SPEAKER 09 :
I’d call Worldwide, Ray. That is a car they would definitely, you know, move for you. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah. Okay. All right. Well, listen, guys, thank you so very much.
SPEAKER 09 :
You’re very welcome, Ray. No, appreciate it very much. Thank you. Great question, by the way. Bob and Centennial, you’re next.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, thank you for taking my call. Sure. They said I could ask a question on this show. Sure, go ahead. Okay, well, I got an unsolicited… Requests in the mail to provide insurance for your exterior water line and electrical wires.
SPEAKER 09 :
Don’t buy it.
SPEAKER 12 :
And I was wondering if that was a scam.
SPEAKER 09 :
It is, but I have to be careful. It’s not a scam. Xcel Energy and others will provide you with insurance on some of those items, although typically your own homeowners is either already covering that or could for a very nominal fee, and that’s something you just need to check with your agent on. But, yeah, I tell everybody all the time, do not buy that extra insurance. You don’t need it. It is one of those things where it’s like buying an extended warranty or an extended service contract on your car. Typically it’s not needed. It’s one of those things that they are doing their very best to get you to buy because that’s how they make money.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay. Well, that’s kind of what I figured. I thought I’d ask the experts.
SPEAKER 09 :
No, I appreciate that, Bob. No, and that goes right along with what we’re talking about because it’s insurance. It ties right into what we’re talking about. So, no, not a problem at all, Bob.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay. All right. Thanks.
SPEAKER 09 :
You’re very welcome. No, appreciate it very much. Mark, go ahead, sir.
SPEAKER 18 :
Good morning, gentlemen.
SPEAKER 09 :
Hey, Mark, how are you?
SPEAKER 18 :
Good. Hey, John, I left a message for you on my truck twice. I never heard back. Did you ever get my messages?
SPEAKER 09 :
I did not, but you know what? Sometimes they go to a weird area. I will double-check that and get with you.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, actually, I talked to people there, and they said they were going to pass it on to you. So I figured something was going on.
SPEAKER 09 :
I will follow up on that, Mark. Not a problem. Definitely will.
SPEAKER 18 :
Oh, not a problem. So other question for you is there are no holes in that truck. Volvo convertible and the bumper for a front plate. Am I required by law to put a plate on?
SPEAKER 09 :
You want my opinion or do you want the legal opinion?
SPEAKER 18 :
No, I don’t care about it.
SPEAKER 09 :
I don’t run a front plate on probably two-thirds of the vehicles I own for obvious reasons because it’s ugly. I’m not going to put holes in the bumper on that particular type of car, so I’m not running. I carry the plate with me if it’s ever a problem. I’ve got it, but no, there are certain vehicles I own I am not putting a front plate on, period. Period. And my feeling on that is it’s the stupidest law, one of the stupidest laws we have in this state. You can be here from other states like Arizona with one plate. You can run a temp tag with just one plate. I mean, I can go down the list, Mark, of all the different things that happen where people have just one plate. Why we have a two-plate law in this state is beyond reason. It’s just stupid, Mark. I don’t know why.
SPEAKER 18 :
All right, so basically I put the plate in the trunk. Yeah, I’m the rebel on that one.
SPEAKER 09 :
I’m the rebel on that one. I’m just not going to do it.
SPEAKER 17 :
I will tell you, I’ve never gotten a ticket in Fort Collins, but I have gotten a ticket in Denver. And State Patrol will watch it at times.
SPEAKER 09 :
If they really want to be ticky-tacky, Mark, they’ll pull you over. I’ve never been written a ticket, but they can get ticky-tacky about it and hassle you.
SPEAKER 18 :
All right, one last question, please, if I could. Sure. The Volvo convertible is done in terms of all the work I put into it, all the work that mechanics put into it.
SPEAKER 09 :
Nice.
SPEAKER 18 :
Put Bilstein coilovers on the front and shocks in the rear. Is there anything else I can do to improve suspension ride quality of that car? Is there any body buffers or anything like that?
SPEAKER 09 :
Guys, I’m not a Volvo expert, so I’m turning to you. I’m not aware of any.
SPEAKER 11 :
I wouldn’t think. I mean, all your subframe bushings, all that stuff probably. I mean, other than because it was a 05?
SPEAKER 18 :
No, it’s an 04 C70 ragtop convertible.
SPEAKER 17 :
Brought it from Florida. So that’s body on frame probably back in that day or no? I doubt it.
SPEAKER 11 :
Unibody. Yeah, it’s unibody.
SPEAKER 17 :
So I don’t think there is much more.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah. I mean, other than subframe bushings, you know, where your engine mounts up and possibly rear suspension subframe or, you know, bushings back there.
SPEAKER 18 :
It’s fairly simple. There are shocks and there are springs. separately, and I think there’s a rubber buffer that goes inside the spring.
SPEAKER 17 :
Oh, okay. Like a bump stop or something. Yeah.
SPEAKER 18 :
A bump stop, correct. That’s it.
SPEAKER 11 :
And you wouldn’t feel that normally. Is that a possibility? No. Those are designed only when you hit hard bumps, so you don’t feel that. Yeah, that’s a fail-safe.
SPEAKER 17 :
What are you doing for tires? Have you got some sidewall room on your tires, or are you running real low profile?
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, what’s on this car is, I’m going to say this off the top of my head, 225, 45, 17s. And that’s the stock tire for that particular… Not a lot of sidewall.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 17 :
No, not a lot of sidewall. Yeah, that’s part of it, too. You could go smaller wheel, bigger tire, but that would change the look, obviously.
SPEAKER 11 :
If it fits the calipers. If it fits, yeah.
SPEAKER 17 :
Calipers.
SPEAKER 18 :
Right, exactly. I can’t do that because one part of that Volvo wheel, you’ll like the name of this Volvo wheel, it’s called Thor. I like that name.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 18 :
It rides on the axle hub. The internal bore of that wheel is critical.
SPEAKER 09 :
Mark, have you looked at any of the… I’m online looking. There are aftermarket companies that make even spring upgrades and things like that. Have you gone and looked at any of those by chance?
SPEAKER 18 :
IPD is the big operation in Portland, Oregon that specializes in vintage ball ball. They’ve got a spring kit in the rear, but I’ve never driven a car with front-wheel drive, and the steering is completely different. It’s heavy.
SPEAKER 09 :
Mm-hmm. Yeah, it will be heavier, absolutely. Yes, it will be, especially on that car. Yeah.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah. This car weighs close to 4,000 pounds.
SPEAKER 09 :
Convertibles are heavy. Most people don’t think about that, but they’re actually heavier than their Coupe counterparts.
SPEAKER 17 :
A lot of frame stiffeners in there. Exactly. Yeah. Well, I have a quick question for you, Mark. With this overall experience, are you happy with the Volvo? Because that was a big deal, going to Florida to get it and rebuilding it and everything.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, I’m going to tell you honestly, and this is the truth. I was drinking when I bought it. I was drinking when I bought it.
SPEAKER 17 :
I was drinking when I… I think a lot of good stories start that way.
SPEAKER 18 :
I was drinking when I bought it.
SPEAKER 09 :
That’s funny.
SPEAKER 18 :
Now, just being honest.
SPEAKER 09 :
That’s funny.
SPEAKER 18 :
So, anyway, the whole experience has been… Good from the standpoint of the mileage in the vehicle, but bad from the standpoint, I put another $11,000 in there, which I frankly don’t care.
SPEAKER 16 :
Sure.
SPEAKER 18 :
Because I got what I want. I got the new German top, which was three grand, all the maintenance. Now I have service records.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 18 :
And I’m not looking to make money on that car. I’m looking at it for my wife and for enjoyment.
SPEAKER 09 :
Sure, sure, sure.
SPEAKER 18 :
And just to keep it. I mean, I had to make custom seat dye for the front seat. Somebody had colored the seats white, which is fine. So I went to the guy that put the top on. His name is Jeff. He’s got a company called Jeff’s Tops. That’s all he does is convertibles.
SPEAKER 09 :
Nice.
SPEAKER 18 :
And he blended me some seat dye.
SPEAKER 09 :
Nice.
SPEAKER 18 :
So it’s been kind of… Cool. Was the experience bad? No. But it was… Let’s just say that those kind of companies that sell cars like that, you get what you pay for.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, you’re correct. Good reminder.
SPEAKER 18 :
You solve your problems with money. You just have to keep pouring money into it until it’s done.
SPEAKER 09 :
That’s a good one. 63,000 miles is not the end of the road.
SPEAKER 18 :
That’s funny. That’s funny. Yeah, well, I apologize you’re listening in public, but that happens. Guys do impulsive things.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, they do at times. Yes, you’re right, Mark.
SPEAKER 11 :
The more you put in it, the better you’ll feel.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, that’s why you should never buy when you’re drinking and never buy at night.
SPEAKER 11 :
You’re right.
SPEAKER 09 :
There you go.
SPEAKER 18 :
Good advice. Yeah, it’s like dating a ring. Punch me in the face again.
SPEAKER 09 :
There you go, Mark.
SPEAKER 11 :
And never buy when you’re bored.
SPEAKER 09 :
That’s funny. Mark, I love you, man. Appreciate you. See you. Bye. All right, man. Buck, John, you guys hang tight. We’ll come right back and get you. Don’t go anywhere. Drive Radio KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 09 :
All right, we are back. Buckenshine, Ann, you are next. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 21 :
Good morning. I tell all the liberals in Colorado this, but it’s a Chamber of Commerce day up here.
SPEAKER 09 :
Ah, that’s nice.
SPEAKER 21 :
Beautiful.
SPEAKER 09 :
Very beautiful.
SPEAKER 21 :
I don’t think the wind’s even blowing three miles an hour.
SPEAKER 09 :
It isn’t here either, so we’re in the same boat.
SPEAKER 21 :
This is the weekend it should have been last weekend.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, it’s a fact. For everybody.
SPEAKER 21 :
Western Slope was last weekend. The reason I called, it wasn’t me, but it was my car, and my mother was driving back in about 1969, I would guess. It was before I was married. I had a, which I still have, 68 Barracuda Formula S 383 Super Commando that was… Kind of a hot rod back then.
SPEAKER 09 :
Still is. Still is. Yep.
SPEAKER 21 :
Love that car. And she was driving it. She was an officer in one of the statewide cattle women’s associations. And she was driving it from Cheyenne to Torrington to attend a local meeting. And she was not familiar with the car. She was going along, and she was pretty close to Torrington. An highway patrolman pulled her down and walked up to the car and took one look at her, and she said, you could have driven a truck through his mouth. He was so astonished. Here was this kind of little old lady from Pasadena in this Barracuda.
SPEAKER 09 :
That’s funny.
SPEAKER 21 :
And she was going 85, and she said, officer said well how fast are you going and she says i don’t know i’m not used to this car this is my son’s car and he kind of looked at her and chuckled a little bit and he said ma’am you were doing 85 and he and he says well i’m sorry and he says He says, well, I’ll let you go this time, but you better watch your speedometer.
SPEAKER 09 :
That’s funny. That’s a good one. Yeah, that’s good, Buck.
SPEAKER 21 :
Wow. And I don’t know how fast that car would go, but I know it would go over 130. The speedometer only went to 120. But by the tachometer, engine RPM… through the transmission and the gear ratio. I was somewhere between 130 and 135 when I backed out of it. And I had a friend that was in the highway patrol back then, and back then he had a Buick station wagon that was his patrol car, and I think it had a 455 in it.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, that sounds right.
SPEAKER 21 :
And I was kidding with him, and I said, I think my Barracuda will outrun your Buick. What? Anytime you want to try it, we’ll go out here on the interstate. And he said, if you get away from me, you’re okay. But if you can’t get away from me, I know my patrol car will run 150 miles. I’m going to ticket you with the speed I pass you. Good one. I never did take him up on that. That’s funny. But that’s kind of my story along that line.
SPEAKER 09 :
That’s a good one. Buck, I appreciate you. Good story. Enjoy your day, by the way.
SPEAKER 21 :
Okay, it’s nice. Appreciate all that you guys do for us automobile hobbyists.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, thank you, Buck. We appreciate you as well. Thank you for listening. We appreciate you very much. John and Cheyenne, go ahead.
SPEAKER 19 :
Hey, well, to go along with what Buck just said, I just passed a wind farm and not one windmill was turning.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, that’s probably, I mean, that’s a good thing. I mean, there’s no wind. Good day for a barbecue.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, in this part of the country, that could be the sign of the apocalypse.
SPEAKER 11 :
It’s real rare, huh? You’re right. Pretty rare.
SPEAKER 19 :
So, question of the day. I might win this. Just because I got a speeding ticket on the Autobahn when I was stationed in Germany. Wow. That’s hard to do. Well, when you go through larger cities, they drop the speed limit down. And I was young and stupid and not paying attention. I had the cruise on. And I didn’t slow it down. And sure enough, I got a speeding ticket in the mail because they use camera radar over there. Sure.
SPEAKER 16 :
You bet.
SPEAKER 19 :
And so it was doing 160 kilometers. So 40 kilometers, which is about 25 miles an hour, about 25 over the limit. So… Yeah, speeding ticket on the Autobahn. How many people could say that?
SPEAKER 17 :
Not very many. It’s probably still cheaper than passing on the right on the Autobahn.
SPEAKER 09 :
Hey, did you hear me talk about how everybody wants you to do a meet-up at Menards so they can all meet you?
SPEAKER 19 :
Oh, okay. I was just there. I just left there like a half hour ago.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, that’s what they’re saying. They want to do a meet-up. So when you get an opportunity to let me know when that’s going to be, I’ll tell everybody.
SPEAKER 19 :
It seems like I’m there once a week minimum.
SPEAKER 09 :
I think a lot of others are, too.
SPEAKER 19 :
So my 11 Ram with the 4.7, I got a check engine light, so I scanned it, and I got a P0172. It said Bank One Rich. Is there something I can do to clean that up?
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, how many miles are on it? 238. Okay. And have you done injectors on it? No.
SPEAKER 19 :
Never had to.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 19 :
I use top-tier fuel.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah. I have a feeling you’re probably looking at injectors just because it didn’t set both banks. It just did one bank, so more than likely you got something hanging up there. It could be a purge issue too, but it would usually pick that up. Yeah.
SPEAKER 17 :
It does feel like an injector may be stuck open or dripping and not closing. Yeah. Yeah. You’ve got too much fuel.
SPEAKER 19 :
Is there, like, an injector cleaner or something that I could try before I put – I don’t know how much more money I want to put into this.
SPEAKER 11 :
44K is about all you could do. Right. You could try it. Yeah, hard to say. It might help. It might not. It might just be worn out. At 230, more than likely, they’re going to need to be done.
SPEAKER 19 :
Okay. Couldn’t hurt. So, Ken, or – I’m sorry. I’m drawing a blank on the gentleman for Fort Collins.
SPEAKER 27 :
Pat. Pat. Yep.
SPEAKER 19 :
Pat, what do you guys run for that, for the eight injectors?
SPEAKER 17 :
Oh, gosh, John, I don’t do enough of them to know. I could do an estimate and send it to you later, but I don’t have anything on the tip of my tongue here.
SPEAKER 19 :
Oh, no, just ballparking it, because I’m wondering if it’s worth… I used to fix tanks in the Army, so I’m wondering if it’s worth trying to do myself.
SPEAKER 11 :
They’re not… difficult i mean you know just pull the fuel rail so it’s not it’s not too bad of a job to do and be definitely something you could do but get the injectors from chrysler if they still have them or something of a good brand name yeah best parts you can get yeah yeah so what is the low would the local napa have top quality ones
SPEAKER 09 :
They’ll have different grades. Buy their best ones. Right. Yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay. If you can get an NG. I don’t even know the brands that make those. Yeah, it’s been a while. Okay. Yeah, they have a good warranty.
SPEAKER 17 :
So, like John just said, buy the best ones you can get. Yeah. If you buy Napa. Yeah.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, well, it’d either be Napa or we have a local owned auto shop here, auto parts shop here in Cheyenne. And he’ll get you what you want in the best. But I’ll try Ram first and see if they have him. And price him out, of course. Yeah, exactly. But I don’t know. I’ll throw… Can of 44K in it today. Not going to hurt it. Try that first. And maybe do two tanks with 44K and see what happens. Yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
And, you know, I didn’t even think, I mean, you might want to, if you can pull up that oxygen sensor too, maybe that oxygen sensor is stuck rich, but I, you know, I doubt it’s an oxygen sensor issue. They usually stick lean.
SPEAKER 19 :
Okay. Okay. Yeah. I just have a basic scan tool, but. The guys at the shop where I work, they have the $20,000 Snap-on one.
SPEAKER 09 :
And the only ones at Napa show for that are Eklins. So not that that’s a bad brand, but I think I would try Dealer first. If not, use the Eklins.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah. Be sure and check the oxygen sensor first, too. We’ve seen stranger things happen.
SPEAKER 19 :
Okay. So there’s… When I go to work Monday, I’ll get Cody to run the scan.
SPEAKER 09 :
All right.
SPEAKER 19 :
Hey, thanks, guys.
SPEAKER 09 :
Thanks, John. Appreciate you. We’ve got a car review coming up next. It’s on a vehicle that my son and I drove here recently, and we did a review on it a couple of weeks ago, but stay tuned. That’s up next. We’ll be right back after that. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Okay, one more that we want to squeeze in here because we usually do these on Mondays and we’ve got a holiday coming up. So let’s do one more. The 2025 Hyundai Santa Fe hybrid calligraphy all-wheel drive, which we both drove.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, and that’s sort of a mouthful, Dad. But what I will say, and we’ve driven Santa Fe’s before. I will just say this, Dad. Speaking of price point, as we just mentioned here, Under $50,000, I don’t know if you will find a car of this size for the same money with the hybrid technology and all of the features that kind of have come along with this. This was, again, a rare car that you and I both got to drive. You got to drive this car, and this is the first time you’ve been in a new Santa Fe that they’ve actually – It’s redesigned, I believe, yeah, for 2024, so there’s no major changes for this year. But you got in it, and I believe your first words were to me were, wow, this is really nice.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, it’s interesting. I’m not—I’ll just be straight up honest. The looks of the car, it’s not my ultimate favorite. I’ll just say it straight up. Although— It grew on me as I started driving it. One of the first things my wife even commented on was, wow, you know, the interior is really nice and it’s spacious and love the fact that it’s got, for example, dual phone chargers in the console where you both can lay your phone down on the wireless charger end of things and charge both of them. They’ve even got some ports that you can even control where if you want to just charge or if you want to talk to the car through the cord, all sorts of little features they’ve got going on, Richard, that really do… separate this car from a lot of its competitors, and at the same time, it runs well, the hybrid side of it. I mean, I drove it almost a week, not quite a week, on a half a tank.
SPEAKER 10 :
I was going to say it’s got an estimated 36 miles per gallon, Dad, which is compared to the 24 miles per gallon on a normal Santa Fe, it’s really hard to beat that. Obviously, I even drove it after you got it and drove around and took the kids to school and did some things that way, and I never put fuel in it. So when you combine your level of driving with my driving and we never had to add any fuel to it, A hundred percent. The other thing I’ll say, and you kind of mentioned is folks, a lot of times we kind of get in, we don’t get into the nitty gritty of these cars as far as how many car ports and, or, you know, charging ports and some of that they have. But you mentioned it, that this car just, it felt well thought out in that, like you said, you can have two people wirelessly charging their, their, their phones. But then there’s also for the second row passengers, and I think even the third row, you can plug in your USB-C and get fast charging and get some of that just right into the seat back. And there’s grocery bag holders on the back of the first seats, right? So when you’re with the mom and you’re putting that there. And there’s standard third row, Dad, which, again, not saying you would necessarily use this car all the time for the third row because it’s not overly spacious. But there’s just a lot of well-thought-out features on this vehicle that I think maybe people may overlook at times.
SPEAKER 09 :
Agreed. No, again, I was very, how do I want to say, very impressed with this car, liked the car. Again, the looks grew on me, and the reason why I say the looks aren’t my favorite is a little bit of a boxy look, and I’m not a huge boxy kind of car guy, but this car has that. Yet, I will tell you, functionality-wise, if you’re looking for just a really overall fun, functional car that works well, does everything you want it to do, gets fabulous fuel economy, and has a really well-laid-out interior, Richard, tough car to beat, and I’m being very honest.
SPEAKER 10 :
Tough car. And the other thing that I’m going to add to that is, and I think we said it, maybe we didn’t, all-wheel drive. And again, for a car of this segment here in Colorado, being an SUV, and yes, the looks do take a little bit getting used to, depending on it. But some people that, I’ve got comments on that too, I had several family members that looked at the car and said they actually really liked the look of it.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yep, it’s one of those either like it or hate it, one of the two, absolutely.
SPEAKER 10 :
And it looked like a more expensive car in a good way, right? And so they did that well. So, no, I’m with you, Dad. I think especially, Dad, if you’ve got a family, a family of four, maybe even five, but a family of four, you need just a little bit extra room, but you don’t want to break the bank on an all-wheel drive SUV that’s going to get you 36 miles per gallon. Check it out, Dad. Again, 2025 Hyundai Santa Fe Hybrid Calligraphy. Head to your local Hyundai dealer and let them know that John and Richard Rush from Drive Radio and Rush to Reason sent you.
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SPEAKER 09 :
And we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Jeff in Steamboat. What’s going on?
SPEAKER 20 :
Hey. Hi, you guys. How are you? We’re great.
SPEAKER 15 :
Hi, Jeff.
SPEAKER 20 :
Hi. Pat, one of these days when we’re in Fort Collins, we’re going to come by and I’ll meet you. My son brings the expedition in there. You guys have always been real good to him.
SPEAKER 17 :
Oh, thank you. Yeah, I look forward to meeting you. Definitely.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yeah, and what I wanted to say, John, was thanks so much for your recommendation of where to take my pickup to get the body repaired after that accident five weeks ago. I picked it up yesterday, and what a great guy Joaquin is. Awesome.
SPEAKER 09 :
Good job.
SPEAKER 20 :
He thinks a lot of you, too, and I sure will recommend him if they can get in, but I was actually pretty lucky to get it done that much.
SPEAKER 09 :
I’m glad it worked out, Jeff. That’s good.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yeah, for sure. I think you ought to have a meet and greet with all your regulars, with Soren and John from Cheyenne and Jeff from Montana. And who was the guy that had the welding truck in Cheyenne? Warren. Warren, yeah, geez. I haven’t heard his name in a long time. So I hope he’s doing well. And other than that, The only time that I have remembered being speeding, I didn’t get a ticket, but I think I’ve told the story before about being up in Montana back when they didn’t have speed limits. And we’re going along on 90, about at least 90, 95, and that old Chevy, 50s Chevy pickup truck just kept gaining on me. And when he got up to us, it was Clint Eastwood.
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, really? Yeah.
SPEAKER 20 :
That’s awesome. And the license plates were abbreviated Outlaw Josie Wales. That’s hilarious. When he does a movie, he has the prop guy go out and find him a truck to rebuild, whether they can use it in the movie or not. Okay. He’s got quite a few of them. That’s awesome. That’s a great story. The one he had in Bridges of Madison County is sitting outside his resort in… uh, Carmel. And, uh, we had lunch there one day and that was sitting there when we were doing a spot at Pebble beach. So that’s awesome. Yeah. I didn’t know that about him.
SPEAKER 09 :
That’s really cool.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
He’s quite the, I did not know that either. That’s really cool.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yeah. I don’t know who ended up with the grand Torino, but, uh, so anyway, always enjoy listening to you. I, uh, Had a busy weekend last weekend watching racing all day Sunday, and then Formula One Indy, and then I didn’t watch much of the NASCAR. But the next day we had the ceremonies at the Yampa and Oak Creek cemeteries, and the American Legion, we do an honor guard.
SPEAKER 09 :
Very cool. Good for you, Jeff. Very nice.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yeah. So, anyway, thanks again for all your help.
SPEAKER 09 :
You’re awesome.
SPEAKER 20 :
Always a pleasure.
SPEAKER 09 :
Likewise, Jeff. Appreciate you very much. Enjoy the rest of your weekend. Gary in Denver, go ahead.
SPEAKER 22 :
Oh, hi, John. Hey, Gary. I have a question about buying a pickup truck. Now, I don’t need a truck for hauling things around, but you remember, oh, a long, long time ago, I think it might have been Toyota, Ford, They sold something called, I think it was called the Love Truck, and it was a really small truck with a, you know, it was almost just like.
SPEAKER 17 :
It was a Chevy.
SPEAKER 11 :
Chevy Love made by Isuzu.
SPEAKER 17 :
Chevy Love. It was Isuzu, wasn’t it? Yeah. Partnership.
SPEAKER 1 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 22 :
Is there anything like that in existence now, these really small trucks? I don’t want a Hummer or anything. I just want a really small truck.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, the Ford Maverick is probably the most comparison to that. The Ridgeline is going to be a little bit larger than that. Now, there’s also a Hyundai. Hang on. Let me look it up. Hyundai makes a little truck like that that’s actually a pretty decent little truck. Yeah, the Santa Cruz. Thank you, Ken. Thank you.
SPEAKER 11 :
It’s smaller than the Maverick. Yeah, there’s like, yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
But either one of those are small pickups.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right, unibodies. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 22 :
Do you think the Hyundai would be subject to the tariff?
SPEAKER 09 :
I don’t know on that one, to be honest with you. That’s a good question. I don’t know where they make it and what the factors are going to be on that one. I have not looked. I haven’t checked that one out, so I don’t know.
SPEAKER 22 :
All right, that’s okay. I know. I’ll look at the Chevy and this Hyundai.
SPEAKER 09 :
The Hyundai’s got, to Ken’s point, it’s got a very short bed area, quote-unquote, I guess you could say. Probably shorter even than what that old Chevy Love was. The Maverick is going to be a little more comparative as far as it goes. But you could look at them both. Gary, just take a peek at either one. Go drive them.
SPEAKER 11 :
The Santa Cruz, you’re going to have one… you know probably just one option package on that that’s it um yeah and where the the maverick you can kind of pick and choose on you know what you want and probably the um ridgeline also you probably have more there is i believe it or not on the on the santa cruz i just look there are you can get an se sel sel activity and xrt are limited so it’s actually five options on that one you can do now okay wow so yeah okay yeah i think when they first came out this is what you got
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, you can pretty much do whatever you want, so pick your poison.
SPEAKER 22 :
All right, that sounds good. Thanks. Have a great day.
SPEAKER 09 :
You’re very welcome, Gary. I appreciate it. We’ll come right back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 01 :
Right.
SPEAKER 09 :
That’s not what they are today.
SPEAKER 01 :
Trust me.
SPEAKER 09 :
They are not that. And at one time, yeah, it was pretty much a throwaway type car. And it is not anymore. They really have stepped up their game. And you just heard the review that we did a moment ago on the other Kia, the Telluride. Sorry, the Hyundai. Yeah. And they have come a long way from where they used to be. So they are not what, you know, again, I cannot stress that enough. They are not what they used to be. They are completely different than what they once were. So it’s really night and day. The Santa Fe is what we drove here recently. And they are night and day from what they used to be. And I’ve had many a listener, some of you out there listening, that have even commented and told me about the car that you’re buying and what you’ve driven. I’ve had family members even drive some of the larger cars uh hyundai’s and and kia’s both and had nothing but praise to say for them so yeah i mean in some are saying well yeah what about all the engine problems this that and the other well again folks what about the engine problems gm has on their six twos what about the toyota problems they’re having on the tacomas i mean i can go down the list again of other problems
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, they’re standing behind them. All the manufacturers seem to be stepping up, of course. So, yeah, you just hate to be in that position where you have a vehicle that you’re paying for or that you can’t drive.
SPEAKER 09 :
That’s in the shop.
SPEAKER 11 :
Correct. Exactly. But, I mean. Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. And thank you for saying that to Kenya, because that’s something that that it’s always leaves a bad taste in your mouth. A lot of the dealers are giving, you know, loaners and things like that. Typically, it’s not what you’re driving. So you’re typically going to have a little bit of a step down versus a. step up but you know gary back to your point i’m going to go on cars and i say this all the time if you’re interested in any new car don’t don’t go off of my reviews don’t go off of my recommendations don’t go off of anybody else’s by the way that’s out there that’s on youtube or consumer reports or wherever they’re at you go get in the vehicle and drive it and here’s the downside in that even you’re typically going to get in a dealership and drive around the block you’re normally not going to drive it for a really long time. And I will tell you, as somebody that drives a lot of test cars, press cars and such, I really don’t even know much about that vehicle and how well everything works until the second or third day. Sure. And I’m not exaggerating when I say it. I get them for seven days, and I will tell you that by the time you’re done at the seven days, you’ve really had a chance to really know about the vehicle and how it works and so on. Just taking it around the block does not give you enough experience with the vehicle.
SPEAKER 11 :
Just getting in and out with your stuff.
SPEAKER 09 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 11 :
Putting windows down, looking around. Blind spots, all that kind of stuff.
SPEAKER 09 :
You can’t see enough of that on a round-the-block trip. With a salesman in the other seat, by the way.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right, exactly. Talking to you, distracting you.
SPEAKER 09 :
So my recommendation is if you can, A, get a dealer that will work with you and let you have a vehicle overnight, especially if you can have it for 24 hours, you’re much better off. B, if you can’t get that done, go see if you can rent one. Rent one, yeah. Before you spend… tens of thousands of dollars buying a brand new car, and all of what comes with that, higher insurance and license plates and so on. See if you can go rent one that’s very similar, even maybe won’t have all the same equipment, but see if you can go rent one for a day or two, go spend 200 bucks, on a couple of day of rental and versus going out. Yeah, get a feel for it before you go out and spend a bunch of money on something that you’re not sure. And one of the car companies or rental car companies that typically has a few more brands or a few more variety of vehicles is Enterprise.
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh, okay.
SPEAKER 09 :
So if you want to go try to find a car similar to what you want to buy, I would check Enterprise first before you go to Hertz or Avis or whatever. And the other thing that’s nice about that is typically there’s Enterprise. They do a lot of stuff for body shops and such for collision centers. You’ll find those in other neighborhood locations not driving all the way to DIA.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, makes sense. And two, like if you’re looking at a Hyundai and they don’t have a Hyundai.
SPEAKER 09 :
Go find a Kia counterpart.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, the Kia is identical pretty much. Precisely. Yeah, or GMC, Chevy. Right, exactly, same situation.
SPEAKER 17 :
It’s a good idea what you’re suggesting to use it in a couple different environments. Daytime, dark, in rain, where’s the wiper switch? Where’s the headlight switch? How do I turn the radio off when I need to?
SPEAKER 11 :
Great point, Pat. If you’re going to use it to go to the mountains, load it up like you would or just do something, yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
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