[Thanks to tOP. There's another guy who has strong interest in many things.]
I admire people who have strong enough interest to have an impact in more than one area. Take Jay Leno, TV star, comedian, and car nut. Here he talks about an amazing Bugatti 37A racer. He actually drives it too, from around nine minutes into the video. Like Mike says in his post about roadsters, hardly anybody ever talks about driving these things.
It's also nice that he's interested in all kinds of cars, not just collecting one type like Seinfeld who has a whole bunch of one kind of Porsche or Arnie who has or had a whole bunch of Hummers.
ReplyDeleteI saw him on Top Gear (the original British one) and he was interesting, but also funnier and more likeable than on his own show.
Leno, I mean.
ReplyDeleteI hear you. Seinfeld's Porche collection is interesting only to himself and to his accountant. And probably not even very much to Seinfeld. What would one do with more than one Porche? ("It's Por-*cha*")
ReplyDeleteWould be so cool to be able to run that! It sounds really good! I thought of the very same thing that he said re: having a vehicle that went 120 mph back in the day; unheard of and no competition!
ReplyDeleteAnd, now: imagine looking in the rear view mirror to try to find out what that unique rumble came from to see Leno in a Bugatti! lol! :-D
Quite the interesting features w/the stick shift on the outside & the thermostat. Makes sense: it's a racing machine; TIGHT!
Would be so cool to be able to get into that garaGe (as Leno sez) and have a look at all those old cars...especially that little "cutie," just across from the 37a. Gorgeous! :-P
Saw a TV programme the other day about the superb engineering being done in Argentina, I think on National Geographic channel. Apparently there's a fellow who makes real replicas of cars like the Bugatti, correct to the last detail - and that's the one Leno drives around LA. However the one in the picture looks original (a bit dirty, used?).
ReplyDeleteLove one for me . . . or a 3 litre Bentley . . .
Yeah...a 3 litre Bentley does look cool.
ReplyDeleteCM, are you sure it's a replica? Leno seems like a guy who'd want to drive an original.
ReplyDeleteLeno has the money where he can afford to buy the real thing and I think that's probably the case here. However, I don't know if he'd pay $10,000,000+ for a 1961 Ferrari California Spyder, as this guy did:
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I don't know how someone in radio makes the kind of money he must have to shell out $10 million on a car.
Reading about it on his website it's clear it is the real thing and not a reproduction.
ReplyDeleteI was just thinking that if I was ever in a position where people wanted me as a guest on their talk shows, I'd tell Jay I give him an exclusive contract if he'd give me a personal tour of his garage and let me drive some of those fine automobiles. That Bugatti is pretty sweet. As Ferris said, it is so choice.
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