Jay Leno's Garage

Did you know that Jay Leno, the late night talk show host of the "Tonight Show", has a passion for everything that has to do with automobiles. He has a huge garage somewhere in Burbank, Los Angeles, with a team of mechanics who maintain his collection. The garage has even its own website: Jay Leno's Garage

My personal connections are limited but I will attempt to get an invite to the Big Dog Garage. This may take a while, so in the meantime, I have written an excerpt from an article on Jalopnic, called "Burbank Envy: A glimpse inside Jay Leno's Garage".
They were lucky enough to snag a tour of Jay Leno's Big Dog Garage during the L.A. Auto Show some years ago.

Here follows a list of things seen there:
- a wall of Vincent motorcycles,
- the tank car,
- some of the best garage art known to man,
- a fully operational Tatra T87,
- a very large steam engine that used to belong to Thomas Edison - it still works,
- a water-jet cutter,
- ordinary, run-of-the-mill stuf, like a McLaren F1,
- and maybe Jay Leno himself.



To be honest, it was simply amazing. His collection of cars and bikes are exactly as we'd have them -running condition, nice without being too nice, and correctly restored. There was even a collection of art and assembled mobilia- the larger pieces were painted by NBC's set department - and was astonishing to say the least. The in-house restoration and service shop is complete enough to make your toes curl. And in the middle of it all is an ordinary, down-to-earth machine nut who just happens to be one of the most famous men in the world.

It is said the man sure knows how to collect cars.

Mr. Leno, I will be calling for an invite, on behalf of all the petrolheads of Curacao.

Source: Jalopnic.
Pictures courtesy of: barflyracers.com, jaylenosgarage.com