Jay lenos garae w/pics

[Captain Boracho]

Awhile back i had the opportunity to take a personal tour of Jay Lenos garage. It was definitely a memorable experience seeing one mans collection of multimillion dollar cars, one of a kind cars, and just plain out awesome cars. I got to see my two dream cars, The Mclaren F-1 and the Mercedes Mclaren SLR. That made the trip for me.

I was given this opportunity because @ the time i was working as a wrench for Valley Detroit Diesel/Allison Transmission out of city of industry. They are the major distributor for detroit deisel engines and allison trannys for the west coast. Jay leno sent us two of his vehicles, One being the chrysler tank car which had an m47patton tank motor in it paired to an allison b-500 transmission. The Second being a 1940's tour bus. I was on the tank car build team, it was a once in a lifetime experience watching her come together and finally running her on the dyno.

I spoke to jay quite often during the build and even had lunch with him on one of his many visits to the shop. When the build was over Jay called in to thank everyone and asked to speak to me, he thanked me for the hard work and great communication during the 6 months we had the vehicle then asked if i would like to come down to his garage for a tour.........HELL YES MR LENO!!!

We set it up for the following saturday and allowed me to bring three guests. I invited fellow workers but no one believed i was really invited! Saturday came and i made a couple last minute calls to my brother in law Edward (fisherman101) and my buddy Gary who agreed to come...... heres the pics of our tour....

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this Moto is powered by an allison rolse royce helicopter turbine engine!!!

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Mr Lenos Canadian tuxedo!!
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all these cars are in his repair area....he has 4 private mechanics under his employ...lucky bastards!!!
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Our tour guide happened to be Bob, one of lenos "employees". Jay gave him this car for 15 years of service....
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back to the tour....
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i Requested a moment alone with the following car....Jay if your reading this sorry for the Stain near the exhaust..........
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If your not Familiar w/this car wikipedia it......Look At where the drivers seat is......CENTER STEERING!!!
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i need a moment again.........okay back to the tour......

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if i remember correctly this toronado was putting down 1040 bhp ......look at its twin turbo beauty...
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Heres the vehicle we worked on.......
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Apparently this is one of his favorite vehicles to drive around.....
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look @ the rotors this bad boy is packin...what a set!
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This next car is the Mercedes Mclaren SLR......she will be mine...oh yes she will be mine.........just as soon as i have 500k to blow.....
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cont'd.......

[fish_sauce]

Wow! awesome post! Thanks for sharing =)

the chrysler tank car definitely looks like a beautiful work of art! :Wink:

[Fisherman57]

Nice post Onyx.

I've been to Jay's "Big Dog Garage" a few times over the years.

Jay has a great relationship with GM engineering and while I was with GM Performance Parts (GMPP),
I was lucky enough to be involved with his "1966 Toro" project. 1070 HP. SWEET.....
http://www.seriouswheels.com/cars/top-1966-Oldsmobile-Toronado-Jay-Leno.htm

He's a semi-regular at the Bob's Big Boy Toluca Lake car show on Friday nights and usually drives a different car every time he shows up........ the man knows loves cars, thats for sure. He's got a better collection than the Peterson Museum IMO.

Thanks for sharing .........

[Captain Boracho]

this car is powered by a 2 stroke 6 horespower motor!
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i think wingnut might like this car.......
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We were all talking about the muscle cars and how we would love to race em when bob turns around and says id take this car here and whoop all yer butts.....

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im bummed the picture didnt come out but this cobras interior aspect of the hood was autographed by shelby himself!

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a horseless carriage...

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the only car my girlfriend at the time liked.......

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and ofcourse he has a couple motos.....more like 100's....

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I hoped you enjoyed the tour...... i know we did!!!

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[boxl0bster]

that is awesome!!! btw is that a miata??! of all those expensive cars he has a miata in there LOL.

[Fisherman57]

That 55' Buick Roadmaster has a GM 572cu in under the hood......... and is one screamin' car.
It even has his name milled into the valve covers........ LOL!

[Wingnut]

The car that I want out of that garage is the original 427 Cobra.
Oh yeah, and his entire motorcycle collection. :Envious:

[Captain Boracho]

that is awesome!!! btw is that a miata??! of all those expensive cars he has a miata in there LOL.

lol if i remember correctly every car there is special in one way or another........alot of em are one of a kind......i made the same remark about a harley davidson f150 truck and bob said ford built him the car with a special kind of bed or something........The Miata is his airport runway car !! he drives it over to the plane hes gonna fly on if i remember correctly.....

[fish_sauce]

The car that I want out of that garage is the original 427 Cobra.


X2. great minds think alike! hehehehe..

[sansou]

Awesome pics! Thanks for making us drool!

If any of you hit the lotto and want to make Sansou your friend for life.....hook me up with the Dusenberg. That's "class" right there! ha ha!!

[DockRat]

Wow, Nice Rides. Mercedes McLaren is the Shiet. That Toronado engine is cool.

hood was autographed by shelby himself

The guy across the street works for Shelby at his personal collection shop in Torrance next door to a Shelby engine shop. He is in his 80's and comes to the shop twice a week. Autographs too or get a car signed :Secret:

Those old guys are too cheap for being millionares. Shelby was driving a older Dodge Caravan then he stepped up to a Ford Focus and shops at the 99 cents store :ROFL:

Ed Iskenderian ISKY Cam is another one. Pushing 90 years old and still going strong.
My neighbor says he will take your food if you get up from your table. Loves the 99 cents store too and dumpster diving.
Packrat who loves dumpster diving 5 days a week. :ROFL:
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DR

[lalo56]

Those are extremely nice cars. I have been to a car show in Glendale and Jay was driving one of his cars.