Showing posts with label Leno. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leno. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 12, 2016

An interesting idea from Jay Leno on Pebble Beach concours

...."he wishes there also was a trophy for the least expensive restoration, for the guy who did it himself with a can of Rust-Oleum and his own elbow grease."

https://www.calif.aaa.com/home/publications/westways/local-outings/2015-conversations/2016-conversations-jay-leno.html

Interesting trivia tidbit, Jay started working as a lot boy at the local Ford dealership, where he attached and removed hubcaps so they wouldn’t be stolen overnight when the dealership was closed.  

Friday, July 8, 2016

Paul Newman showed up a Ford factory test driver so bad, the man crashed

Leno sat down with legend Mario Andretti in an Italian restaurant to talk carbureted glory over plates of carbs. The race god shared how he once brought Paul Newman to a test session with Ford and Newman ran faster than the factory drivers. One embarassed Ford driver got in after Newman and, trying to save face, he pushed it hard. Too hard. He ended up binning it.

http://www.thedrive.com/a-list/3985/8-interesting-things-from-jay-lenos-garage-episode-6

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Jay and the Hurst Hemi Under Glass... and the wreck



Just a bad choice of location, because the bowl shape of the track meant that they had to slow down quickly from the wheelstand and then turn to avoid hitting the farside wall, and then the slicks hooked on the soft tall sidewall, and flip!