Thank You, Jay Leno

Jay Leno was a popular late night talk show host. He did this for decades. I wasn't someone who stayed up that late, so didn't watch his show. After he retired, very rich from the show, he started putting videos on the net about his car collection, many of which are classics. In a very real sense, he's the American Top Gear, only a great deal more respectful and far less flippant. He doesn't have the audience or mindset of Top Gear fans, either, and Jay keeps what he buys for the most part. He's got 1920's Dusenbergs, and a 1980's McLaren F1, which is an odd, very expensive, production sports car that's road legal, but being $1.3 million should rarely be trusted around traffic. Jay Leno's Garage recently posted a video on a visitor with the Lancia Fulvia Zagato, which was a car ahead of its time, and very interesting because of it.

Here's the video. I really enjoyed watching this. Thank you, Jay Leno. Your respect for vehicles and history makes California proud. I really think these programs are more of a legacy than all those years of late night TV because those shows are largely forgotten by my generation, but these car documentaries are valuable and will likely be referred to a century from now.