other Jay Leno's garage is my new fav show....

[2002Targa]

I haven't seen an 02 "yet", but it will be so.  Oh yes, it will be so.. 

I especially love the vintage commercials.  I wasn't paying attention "back in the day" but were there any nationally televised 2002 commercials??

[shoeless]

Ive watched the Emory Outlaw 356 episode a few times.

Great show.

[dlmrun2002]

I saw part of one show. Jay's head barely fit in the helmet. It looked like 5 lbs of tuna in a 2 lb can.    Redonkulous.    The M4 looked good.

 

dlm ny country

[2002Targa]

So, a couple mins into episode 3, nice Alpina 02 coming around the corner...

[danco_]

Jay Leno denied me a high-five about 4 years ago. I was on his show and the producer asked about 10 of us to go and greet Jay and make him look personable at the beginning of filming and I went in for a high-five and he just stopped and looked at me for about a second and turned about 6 degrees to the left and shook someone else's hand. We even locked eyes before he made the slight left turn. Heck, even Oprah gave me a high five. But not Jay effing Leno.

 

He denied me then. So I will deny him my as a viewer of his new show. 

 

 

I'll never forget. 

Edited October 27, 2015 by danco_

[vinceg14]

So I have had a different experience with Jay. Nothing that personal ^. I have talked to him while attending Monterrey events several times. He does tend to move on quickly and avoid the crowds. My best story is I am at the Concorso Italiano and I am looking at this Gaudy Pantera. This one got chrome everything including The Trans case and axles. A giant Edelbrock carb, Red velour interior, ect, ect. I'm looking at the engine and Jay says do you think he can pick up 2 chrome plated turbos and win the best in class Hot Rod today? We laugh and he takes off. His show is somewhat entertaining. I prefer the Petrolicious videos right now.

 

Vince

[tomphot]

My employer produces cold drawn seamless tubing.  When Jay was working on his steam engine car, he needed some very specialized and impossible to find tubing parts.  He called us himself and over the course of few calls, we produced what he needed.  He was a very nice guy to talk to over the phone.

[73tiiguy]

Jay Leno denied me a high-five about 4 years ago. I was on his show and the producer asked about 10 of us to go and greet Jay and make him look personable at the beginning of filming and I went in for a high-five and he just stopped and looked at me for about a second and turned about 6 degrees to the left and shook someone else's hand. We even locked eyes before he made the slight left turn. Heck, even Oprah gave me a high five. But not Jay effing Leno.

 

He denied me then. So I will deny him my as a viewer of his new show. 

 

 

I'll never forget. 

 

Hilarious - I have watched a couple of episodes and I'm already weary of the "lets go visit a fellow millionaire's car collection shtick".  I suppose it would be pretty boring if he came to my house to look at my crusty old Bavaria though.

 

But there there were a couple other segments I enjoyed.  One was the visit to the GM design studio in SoCal to check out and drive the Pontiac Pegasus (Ferrari V12 powered one-off).  The other was the short time he spent with the import racers at the Petersen Museum.

 

I'll keep watching I guess...

[LimeySteve]

I've met him a few times through the Hot Rods, he loved the 1953 Allard J2X we restored & I took to an event he visited, always very cordial. I had put CV axles & disc brakes on a 1929 Cord front wheel drive car , all hidden except for the CV parts he called me at the shop to quiz me what I'd done & I had to give the info to Randy Ema ( sp ) that was redoing his Cord. He was very nice & as we all know he's a dyed in the wool Car Guy.

Edited October 27, 2015 by LimeySteve

[gaius]

Danco,

i really would not make to much of the whole high five episode, some of us just do not do that.

from a different era i guess. that might make him, or "us" dinosaurs, but that doesn't necessarily 

mean we suck.

 

gaius

[danco_]

Danco,

i really would not make to much of the whole high five episode, some of us just do not do that.

from a different era i guess. that might make him, or "us" dinosaurs, but that doesn't necessarily 

mean we suck.

 

gaius

Yeah I hear you. My comment wasn't meant to be serious. I met him at Concours D'Elegance two years ago and he was great. 

 

But I'll never try to high five him ever again. 

[Fatherof3]

Jay Leno denied me a high-five about 4 years ago. I was on his show and the producer asked about 10 of us to go and greet Jay and make him look personable at the beginning of filming and I went in for a high-five and he just stopped and looked at me for about a second and turned about 6 degrees to the left and shook someone else's hand. We even locked eyes before he made the slight left turn. Heck, even Oprah gave me a high five. But not Jay effing Leno.

 

He denied me then. So I will deny him my as a viewer of his new show. 

 

 

I'll never forget. 

Nice to hear you and Oprah are close 

Edited October 27, 2015 by Fatherof3

[jgerock]

Yeah I hear you. My comment wasn't meant to be serious. I met him at Concours D'Elegance two years ago and he was great. 

 

But I'll never try to high five him ever again. 

Maybe he is a "fist bump"  kind of guy - or maybe just "hey - how's it going".    

[danco_]

Nice to hear you and Oprah are close 

Oprah is nice. I also met a Christmas tree farmer in Oregon that personally supplies Oprah's house with Christmas trees. He told me that she flew her interior designer out to his compound one October to personally handpick 28 christmas trees for her home. 

 

 

WTF do you need 28 christmas trees for? Because Oprah. 

 

Maybe he is a "fist bump"  kind of guy - or maybe just "hey - how's it going".    

I'll try this next time and report back with my findings. 

 

I find Jerry Seinfeld to be much more approachable. I was a class host at Pebble in 2014 for Maserati and Jerry and I had a 3 minute conversation about a prisitine 54 Zagato coupe that was up for judging. The owner let me sit in his car but I didn't do much more than that. He didn't have a daughter so I became quickly disinterested.  

But Jerry knows his stuff. 

[jgerock]

Oprah is nice. I also met a Christmas tree farmer in Oregon that personally supplies Oprah's house with Christmas trees. He told me that she flew her interior designer out to his compound one October to personally handpick 28 christmas trees for her home. 

 

 

WTF do you need 28 christmas trees for? Because Oprah. 

 

I'll try this next time and report back with my findings. 

 

I find Jerry Seinfeld to be much more approachable. I was a class host at Pebble in 2014 for Maserati and Jerry and I had a 3 minute conversation about a prisitine 54 Zagato coupe that was up for judging. The owner let me sit in his car but I didn't do much more than that. He didn't have a daughter so I became quickly disinterested.  

But Jerry knows his stuff. 

You are quite the celebretologist.. (whatever that means).