Great show! Even with Jason Preistly commentating it was still worth watching. I wonder what it cost to rebuild that engine.
No I should be working but my meeting was cancelled and I'm all caught up and ready to head to Louisville
I saw jay leno at a blessing of the cars show about two years ago, he drove the blastoline special to it, what a killer car. He was amazingly friendly, stopping to talk and take pictures. He's a lot bigger in person than he looks on tv. He seems like a real car guy who does the TV thing to make money to have the cars he wants. That show was awesome, what a killer find. It's hard to believe THAT was sitting in a tiny garage like that. I couldn't believe how good of shape it was in, especially the interior. I think the convert was another duesy, looked like one based on how long it was. I was also thinking old chrysler, whatever it was it was huge. Very good show, I really enjoyed it.
The "Mustache Man" Dennis Gage keeps being mentioned here.Do you know that he invented Pringles potato chips?He is also the producer of the show on Speed channel called Texas Hardtails which is actually pretty good.
I finally got to watch the show last night. i thought it was killer escpecially those old steamer cars! I didn't really know much about Jay Leno except for his late show and the fact that he liked old cars. The coolest thing i thought was that this guy actually works on and drives his cars. _t
Not as exciting as emails about the NJ ticket blitz? Good show. I like Jay Leno. Kick *** that he's not restoring that car to concours quality. The best line of the whole show was the one about the American Dream... a mere millionaire winning against billionaires. The "I'm the president of the more money than brains club" was good too.
Last year I was walking through an old mans garage, he had brought all his stuff down here to retire and for his health..We were looking at the 1906 Electric Opera coupes, 32 Cadillac roadster, 33 Cadillac Limousine, 57 Corvette. Packard all-wood travel trailer etc.etc. as soon as he mentioned that he was talking to Jay Leno my heart sank, I knew that the pricing for this stuff was going to be way out my league..maybe I could still get a decent price on that Bowden SpaceLander bike, Leno doesn't like bicycles right? This old man has PeeWee Hermans bicycle, a 36 Chevy coupe that really looks brand new, Arthur Murrays gold dancing couple hood ornament off his Rolls..a gramophone collection..my mind was blown...
I was going to post that link to his garage website,it's excellent. You guys should see him light em up on the street with his '55 Buick, damn, that thing is bad***.
Pringles potato chips were invented by Alexander Liena in the late 1960s, but their shape--a hyperbolic paraboloid--was later changed slightly by Thomas J. Lange, director of modeling and simulation for Procter & Gamble when the production process became so fast that chips were literally flying off the line. According to Wikipedia. Dennis Gates does gesture a lot and enjoys the timeless cl***ics though! I bet he uses a half pound of wax on that cheesy moustache of his?
Check his site every week. He says he has 350 cars, does one a week, and not all are about cars. He likes steam engines and motorcycles too.
The other car was another Duesenberg, I think it was a modified Model A Duesy. My late father knew about the car, as did several other guys in high places, and actually got some other parts from him at one time. The guy was not firing on all cylinders, and would chase you away if you went to his door. I believe he was eventually put in a home, and the wife sold the car. Jays motto often is "I buy the person, not the car" meaning, he often pays more than the asking price and then some. Here is some info I found about the car. "This particular model X was a Lock bodied sedan, built in 1927. The first recorded owner of the vehicle was Arthur Broadstreet from Indiana. After an unknown amount of time, Broadstreet sold the vehicle to John Toker, a used Duesenberg dealer in Chicago. It is believed that the vehicle was non-operational at the time of the sale, and did not change hands again until 1946. Almost 20 years after it was built, William Johnson purchased the vehicle from Toker and had it transported by train back to California. Once there, Johnson tied the Model X to his Model A Duesenberg, and towed the vehicle to his home in Burbank. Johnson allegedly tried to get the Duesenberg to run, but to no avail. Fearing someone may try to steal the rare vehicle, Johnson took the tie rod off and shut the door to the garage — which is where the Model X sat until Leno saved it from its dark cave in 2004. "
I heard him say something about taking cars to a 100 point restoration and then driving them until they are 30 points and restoring them again. CHAZ
I don't know which of his Duesenbergs he was referring to, but he has mentioned that he's purposely left one of them unrestored as a driver, and refers to it as his "BeaterBerg". I liked that.
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