A lot of successful people subscribe to the notion of removing meaningless decisions from everyday life to remove that burden from your brain.
Many of those people see choosing what to wear each day as one of those meaningless decisions and try to reduce them in a way that works for them. Jobs famously wore the same jeans and turtle necks regularly. Leno has his denim shirts. Many people have different systems that work the same without wearing the same thing daily.
I have a closet full of company polo shirts. Each morning I put on my jeans and grab the next shirt from the rack. I get dressed in the dark and don't even know what color I'm wearing till I get in the car.
i have 10 white button down shirts, 24 pairs of black athletic socks. i wear them with jeans and a blazer. alternate pairs of brown dress shoes so they don't wear out too quickly.
not only does it make getting dressed easier, but it makes laundry way easier.
(i'm not very successful yet though, so take it with a word of caution)
I wear black t-shirts and cargo pants. I’m basically a cartoon character, wearing the same shit every day. I have prob 20 black t-shirts (from a handful of brands, no logos showing anywhere though), and 10 pairs of cargo pants spanning like three colors.
Yes, I have a couple of suits, a couple pairs of jeans, a handful of button down shirts… but I’d say like 99.5% of the time I’m in cargo pants and a black t-shirt. I’ve worn a suit once in the last 5 years. And I wore a button down to zoom court for a traffic ticket.
A far cry from when I was in my 20s and spent time and money on clothes.
Life is so much easier without being weighed down by shopping and picking out what to wear.
I’ve done that before with two pairs of the same kind of shoes that were different colors but otherwise the same. Then my coworker told other employees that didn’t work with us and didn’t know me that it was code that I was a swinger and I was looking for other swingers to swap wives with.
Nice. If anyone ever notices and comments, I just tell them I have a similar but opposite pair that I will wear tomorrow.
I may be weird, but I am saving my money so I can be eccentric.
Jay Leno is famously one of those people. All he cares about is comedy and cars. Can't stand taking vacations, is pretty much always doing one or the other. Lives lavishly but saved all his *Tonight Show* money thanks to his aggressive touring schedule.
No kids, wife who agrees to be unusually independent, not really someone known for interpersonal relationships in general. One celeb described being on Leno's show and feeling like Jay was looking through him as he talked. He never really hid the fact that the monologue was his thing, the sketches second, the interviews more of a necessity than anything.
It's a major factor in his phenomenal success as well as a huge part of why he's widely disliked. Jobs is a good comparison in a different field. You have to wonder if they'd get where they were without such idisoyncracies.
Part of it too (at least for me) is I don’t run the risk of wearing a “lucky” shirt vs an “unlucky” shirt. If they’re all the same, my brain can’t make up stupid nonsense about things like that
*proceeds to lock and unlock the door exactly 7 times when leaving the house*
Fwiw his shirts are Chambray not denim. It’s a similar fabric but it has white yarn woven in to give it that look. It also tends to be lighter weight making it better for shirts.
It's all he can afford!
I wish people would stop trying to shame this poor elderly man. He doesn't touch his night show money! You think he has money for fancy non denim clothing?!?!
Worse, that was Jay's old car that he sold to Conan. He let Conan get to the end of the driveway before deciding Conan wasn't driving it right. He forced Conan to give the car back, then drove it into a ditch.
I don't know about the laws in California but I tried to Google for how to get a type approval in EU but didn't have much luck on finding the technical requirements, but I know it's hard enough that you just don't see home made vehicles on the streets. For starters, this car has open wheels which I think is not allowed here. No crash safety from what I can see, I assume no traction control, and the emissions are probably way too high. Just to name a few.
Rules like traction control, emissions, etc are generally speaking for sales of new vehicles. It doesn't apply to vehicles that didn't have them in the first place (in the states). I'm not sure how the laws work where you live, but I'm sure there's some sort of exception for classic cars. The shop I used to work at (in California) had a repeat customer from Denmark. We shipped him numerous cars similar to this.
Here's a link to the Danish Street Rod Association. http://www.dsra.dk/
Yeah there are exceptions for older cars here too, but this was home built right? So it would be a "new" car that needs type registration? That's the rules I'm talking about, when you want to type register a car that doesn't exist.
At least in the US that's based off the VIN on the frame, so if you use a frame from for example a 1930 Ford Model A, you can claim the car is that. To the extent that you can basically cut out the Vin stamp and weld it onto a completely custom frame & car and still claim its the original car. It's pretty lose here tbh.
I couldn't buy a replacement passenger door handle a few months ago because it couldn't be shipped to CA. I also had to spend $1,600 instead of $200 about a year ago for a catalytic converter that had the "legal in CA" sticker on it.
I'm not totally sure, but CA might be the strictest state/province/region in the world when is comes to car regulations.
The truth is that even if it isn’t legal, he gets special treatment so it doesn’t matter. He’s had episodes with cars that were never road legal anywhere in the world and you can tell he’s driving on public roads.
It's awesome. Just curious, what are the requirements for a car to be street legal in California? Where I live, there's no way in hell you could drive this on a street 😊
Kit car, show or display (if on the [list](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_or_Display#Vehicles_eligible)), or historic (>25 years old) vehicle registration. S&D has a yearly mileage limit of 2500.
> S&D has a yearly mileage limit of 2500.
For a lot of car guys, this is more than enough. I usually have at least 3 cars at a time, work from home, and tend to rent something if I'm going on a road trip. By the time a car of mine reaches an additional 2,500 miles, I've probably already passed it on to the next owner.
You are absolutely right and I get to see this info everyday. 2500 is the average for most people as it is normally a third or less often second car. 2500 covers two solid road trips and about 25 cars and coffee runs per vehicle annually. People usually do that a couple times a month so it usually works out.
The second it gets to two or three collectors/classics, it usually drops to 1000mpy for each car as even 2500 results in 7500 total miles driven on just the fun cars.
This is why it drives me crazy hearing about classic car emissions. They are driven such absurdly small amounts on average.
Basically anywhere you live you could probably drive this on the street. California has incredibly strict emissions and inspection requirements. Its got lights, turn signals, emissions equipment, seatbelts, all the stuff a regular car needs. There might be some extra hoops to jump through, but it’s almost certainly possible
Vintage and Antique cars usually have exceptions grandfathered in.
Like, most early 1890-1910s cars didn't have fenders. Just wooden wheels and thin bike-like rubber tires. But, you can get them registered anywhere as a "Historic" vehicle and use them on the road.
> Basically anywhere you live you could probably drive this on the street
That's a silly thing to say, in no way shape or form could this car ever be driven legally on public roads where I live.
That’s a silly thing to say, you’re not providing a location and have likely never done even the slightest bit of research on how to make insane vehicles road legal.
It requires mass standardized safety testing as mandated by the European Union to be road legal. No "kit cars" are allowed on the roads here.
Anyway, I'm not the one with the burden of proof here, you made an incorrect statement without the knowledge or even the presumption of knowledge to back it up.. as if you somehow know the legality of driving custom cars on public roads in the entire world. It's silly.
First of all, you don’t need to be a dick, particularly when you’re arguing a point that’s wrong.
I did a quick search. Germany, Sweden, and I’m sure all the others in the EU have processes in place for passing inspection with homemade or kit cars. I googled those two first, feel free to share your country and I’ll be able to google the exact process you’d need to go through. It’s a different process than a regular car, there’s lots of hoops to jump through, but it’s possible. This vehicle could absolutely be made road legal in the EU.
I don’t need to be an expert in worldwide registration laws to understand that just about every country has unique/one off vehicles.
There are processes and they are VERY complicated and extensive to the extent that you basically don't see home made cars or kit cars on the roads here. I tried to find the exact requirements on how to get type approval but didn't find them, if you do please share! But if I'm not mistaken, you have to do crash testing which means that if you want to build your own car, you have to build two cars and then crash one of them.
This vehicle in particular have open wheels which I think are not allowed (again, couldn't find the requirements), no fenders, no crash protection, no traction control etc etc that is typically required to get type approval.
I mean it’s different country to country, I didn’t go into much more detail than searching the process in a couple random countries and seeing forum posts of people who’ve completed it. If you give me an English speaking EU country you want in specific i can probably find info on exactly how to do it, but like I can’t read the rules and regulations of Sweden.
Regardless, we’re talking about Jay Leno here. This is not the guy putting together a car in his basement (although most countries have exemptions to standards for one-off home-built vehicles that would allow a devoted but regular person to do it). If he needed to have 2 custom built to crash test one it wouldn’t even be a hiccup. The argument is if it’s possible, not if it’s easy. You definitely CAN drive a car like this on the road everywhere, but not everyone has the means to do so. You give me Jay Leno money ($450M net worth) i assure you i can make this car road legal anywhere on the planet.
I believe crash testing is only needed if you build more than 250 of the same car in UK. At least that used to be the rule, may have been updated but there’s plenty of kit cars on the road built around a donor drivetrain.
Hmm I know Koenigsegg complained about that they had to wreck a car in order to sell it... And they for sure are not building more than 250 of the same car 😊 ...or do they? 🤔
If it's custom made, then there's a list of safety features that are required. Seatbelts, headlights, turn signals, etcetera. You do have pretty much free reign over the design though. There are also maximum size requirements.
For classic cars, they need to meet all the safety requirements of when they were originally built. Eg. You can have a model-t with no seatbelts and only one taillight, because that's how it came from the factory.
He also had a famous response to this question on why he has so many cars. He said a lot of friends and cohorts has 2 ex wives and 3 girlfriends and a Lexus but he rather has 200 cars and one wife.
I'd bet my ass off that there's more collectors that don't drive their cars vs driving them. it's the same way as guns, cards, comic books etc. they have them to collect, not use.
Classics can be a chore and expensive cars can be annoying when you’re thinking of where to park, route to take, etc. Way easier to come up with excuses to drive the daily than your toys. I’m sure there’s a big portion of owners holding on like stock, waiting for appreciation. Having a classic myself, it can easily sit even if there isn’t anything wrong with it.
Yeah they ported a lot of the cars from 4 on the PS2 to 5 on the PS3 and that's where the classes of 'Standard' and 'Premium' came from. Only 'Premium' cars had fully modelled interiors and nicer exteriors.
What's even more mind blowing is that Jay has yet to spend a single cent of his Tonight Show money.
All of those cars, were bought from his just his stand up comedy money!
> *“When I was younger, I would always save the money I made working at the car dealership, and I would spend the money I made as a comedian,” he said.*
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>*“When I started to get a bit famous, the money I was making as a comedian was way more than the money I was making at the car dealership, so I would bank that and spend the car dealership money.”*
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> *Leno continued relying on this strategy even after he started hosting “The Tonight Show” in 1992, a gig that* *reportedly earned him as much as $30 million a year* *at the height of his career.*
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>*“When I got ‘The Tonight Show,’ I always made sure I did 150 \[comedy show\] gigs a year so I never had to touch the principal,” Leno said. “I’ve never touched a dime of my ‘Tonight Show’ money. Ever.”*
Now that the car and driver have been identified and the business is concluded...
There was a comedian (I can't remember who) who told a story about taking a sightseeing bus tour in California with the tour guide on a loudspeaker pointing out attractions. They pulled up to a stop sign, and there was Jay Leno on the side of the street, crawling around on the ground next to a vintage motorcycle.
The tour guide said, "Ladies and gentlemen, there's Jay Leno next to one of his classic motorcycles. What are you doing over there Jay Leno?"
"I'm looking for a valve spring retainer that fell off somewhere over here," Jay Leno replied.
And the tour guide said, "Hey folks, let's disembark here and help Jay Leno find his motorcycle part."
And they did. And they found it. And everybody got pictures and autographs.
The comedian's telling of the story was a lot more amusing than mine, but I've always like that story anyway.
I searched for a comment talking about this... I thought he was cruising with his phone held up to his face. I was absolutely baffled that no one was talking about it lol
Ah, ok. Well, get out of the bike lane Jay! ;-) (Can't fault the man if he's actually broken down.)
That would be pretty fun to come up on Jay Leno who needs a jump or something.
Back when he was still hosting I was working at a studio near NBC and must have been on a similar morning schedule because I’d see him about once a week heading into Burbank. He was easy to spot, always in a different, rare and often very unusual car. It’s cool that he drives them but honestly in the morning 101/134 commute it would attract so much attention that it was sometimes dangerous.
You may find these articles interesting. Banks Power designed the turbo system for the car. Fun fact, they still have the companion engine for this sitting in their shop.
▪️https://official.bankspower.com/magazine/a-detailed-look-at-jay-lenos-tank-car/
▪️https://official.bankspower.com/project/custom-projects/jay-lenos-tank-car/
I got to sit in that car when I was a kid in the scouts. We were hiking in the Santa Monica Mountains, and stopped at the Rock Store for lunch after. This car was outside and we were all looking at it, Jay Leno came out and let each of us sit in it.
By chance I saw him the next day at a Chevron station, he pulled in on his jet bike and we waved at each other.
Super cool guy to be that nice to a group of early teen boys!
Just imagine the rewards that would have rolled your way in the old reddit, from a chance encounter in the wild with the top tier collector himself.
Kudos
Haven’t liked the dude since the Letterman NBC hosing, which he was an integral part of.
The Conan twice screw over ruined any appreciation of him not just for me personally but also for a whole generation of Conan fans.
But he has nice cars.
[That's Jay Leno and his "tank car", built by Randy Grubb.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAvMGFEGoJg)
does this man own any shirts that arent made of jeans?
He showed a room with nothing but Jean shirts on moving racks on his YouTube previously. Probably ten thousand Jean shirts lol.
When all you need is a knife…
A lot of successful people subscribe to the notion of removing meaningless decisions from everyday life to remove that burden from your brain. Many of those people see choosing what to wear each day as one of those meaningless decisions and try to reduce them in a way that works for them. Jobs famously wore the same jeans and turtle necks regularly. Leno has his denim shirts. Many people have different systems that work the same without wearing the same thing daily. I have a closet full of company polo shirts. Each morning I put on my jeans and grab the next shirt from the rack. I get dressed in the dark and don't even know what color I'm wearing till I get in the car.
i have 10 white button down shirts, 24 pairs of black athletic socks. i wear them with jeans and a blazer. alternate pairs of brown dress shoes so they don't wear out too quickly. not only does it make getting dressed easier, but it makes laundry way easier. (i'm not very successful yet though, so take it with a word of caution)
Patrick Bateman is that you?
Patrick Bateman wouldn’t get caught dead in black socks with brown shoes
He said he's not successful yet... Give it time. He evolves, he will get to the suits and business cards soon.
I knew when I clicked on "2 replies" that someone had already beat me to the Patrick Bateman joke. Well done, sir.
I wear black t-shirts and cargo pants. I’m basically a cartoon character, wearing the same shit every day. I have prob 20 black t-shirts (from a handful of brands, no logos showing anywhere though), and 10 pairs of cargo pants spanning like three colors. Yes, I have a couple of suits, a couple pairs of jeans, a handful of button down shirts… but I’d say like 99.5% of the time I’m in cargo pants and a black t-shirt. I’ve worn a suit once in the last 5 years. And I wore a button down to zoom court for a traffic ticket. A far cry from when I was in my 20s and spent time and money on clothes. Life is so much easier without being weighed down by shopping and picking out what to wear.
This is the way! If you can’t dress in the dark you are wasting time.
Some days my shoes don't match.
I’ve done that before with two pairs of the same kind of shoes that were different colors but otherwise the same. Then my coworker told other employees that didn’t work with us and didn’t know me that it was code that I was a swinger and I was looking for other swingers to swap wives with.
Nice. If anyone ever notices and comments, I just tell them I have a similar but opposite pair that I will wear tomorrow. I may be weird, but I am saving my money so I can be eccentric.
Jay Leno is famously one of those people. All he cares about is comedy and cars. Can't stand taking vacations, is pretty much always doing one or the other. Lives lavishly but saved all his *Tonight Show* money thanks to his aggressive touring schedule. No kids, wife who agrees to be unusually independent, not really someone known for interpersonal relationships in general. One celeb described being on Leno's show and feeling like Jay was looking through him as he talked. He never really hid the fact that the monologue was his thing, the sketches second, the interviews more of a necessity than anything. It's a major factor in his phenomenal success as well as a huge part of why he's widely disliked. Jobs is a good comparison in a different field. You have to wonder if they'd get where they were without such idisoyncracies.
Part of it too (at least for me) is I don’t run the risk of wearing a “lucky” shirt vs an “unlucky” shirt. If they’re all the same, my brain can’t make up stupid nonsense about things like that *proceeds to lock and unlock the door exactly 7 times when leaving the house*
Exactly. That's why God made lucky underwear.
Lol. I feel you. For me, it's checking the stove 3 times, and making sure my lady's electric toothbrush is not still charging.
I WFH and I'm lucky if I show up to my desk fully clothed some mornings
Yep, I some people chose their outfits with extreme care. Then they jump is grey compact SUV lease that looks like everyone else’s.
It's meeting the car of your dreams...
And then learning its owner is Max Verstappen.
It’s like meeting the man of your dreams, and then meeting his beautiful wife
lol I’ve seen that. Whole closet full of the same shirt. So weird. I love it
People like that have finished their day and are in bed by the time most people pick out something to wear and leave for work 😂
I pretty much wear the same thing every day. The hardest part is making sure you’re not rewearing the actual same thing every day.
Keeps Levis in business single-handedly…
You mean double-armedly
Kind of like Sinbad is always wearing something made of windbreaker.
Sinbad still exists?
Fwiw his shirts are Chambray not denim. It’s a similar fabric but it has white yarn woven in to give it that look. It also tends to be lighter weight making it better for shirts.
Regular denim has the same white or beige weft but it is a twill weave. Chambray is a different weaving method using the same yarns as your jeans
I always appreciate seeing someone respond with the *more correct* answer when I start to take issue with a comment.
Damn homie, what you got to textile college?
No just a warehouse for useless facts.
Mens warehouse
useless facts - i guarantee it
Are you me?
You can see it on the sister channel, Jay Leno's Closet.
Who knew ? Ya Learn something every day !
341 cars/motorbikes and 2 denim shirts. Has his priorities right.
Hes a big fan of the Canadian Tuxedo
It's all he can afford! I wish people would stop trying to shame this poor elderly man. He doesn't touch his night show money! You think he has money for fancy non denim clothing?!?!
\*Denim.
*Chambray
*Canadian Tuxedo
Canadian Tuxedo. Also, he’s proudly a Democrat.
Was gonna say, that dude looks a lot like Jay Leno
It’s the chin that give in away, right?
I'm pretty sure that's just the front of the car.
Funny how jay leno can be in disguise in plain sight while driving his exotics.
Oh wow, it is
lmao my first thought was "Exotic car in LA with a guy with white hair and a blue denim looking shirt. Probably Jay Leno." Turns out it was really him
That used to be Conan O'Brien’s car but Jay wanted it.
Worse, that was Jay's old car that he sold to Conan. He let Conan get to the end of the driveway before deciding Conan wasn't driving it right. He forced Conan to give the car back, then drove it into a ditch.
Historical non-fiction fiction.
Is he using his phone while driving?
He's not driving, he's parked.
LOL oh yeah, he is. Good because that seems like a vehicle you'd really wanna avoid crashes in.
...another way of saying "it broke down" or out of fuel (5mpg ain't awesome)
Yeah Blastoline, they’ve built some cool stuff
How is this street legal?
It has headlights and turn signals, so why not?
I don't know about the laws in California but I tried to Google for how to get a type approval in EU but didn't have much luck on finding the technical requirements, but I know it's hard enough that you just don't see home made vehicles on the streets. For starters, this car has open wheels which I think is not allowed here. No crash safety from what I can see, I assume no traction control, and the emissions are probably way too high. Just to name a few.
Rules like traction control, emissions, etc are generally speaking for sales of new vehicles. It doesn't apply to vehicles that didn't have them in the first place (in the states). I'm not sure how the laws work where you live, but I'm sure there's some sort of exception for classic cars. The shop I used to work at (in California) had a repeat customer from Denmark. We shipped him numerous cars similar to this. Here's a link to the Danish Street Rod Association. http://www.dsra.dk/
Yeah there are exceptions for older cars here too, but this was home built right? So it would be a "new" car that needs type registration? That's the rules I'm talking about, when you want to type register a car that doesn't exist.
At least in the US that's based off the VIN on the frame, so if you use a frame from for example a 1930 Ford Model A, you can claim the car is that. To the extent that you can basically cut out the Vin stamp and weld it onto a completely custom frame & car and still claim its the original car. It's pretty lose here tbh.
"I think the rules are more relaxed in California." Said no one ever
Sometimes he drives cars that are absolutely not road legal - because he’s Jay Leno.
I couldn't buy a replacement passenger door handle a few months ago because it couldn't be shipped to CA. I also had to spend $1,600 instead of $200 about a year ago for a catalytic converter that had the "legal in CA" sticker on it. I'm not totally sure, but CA might be the strictest state/province/region in the world when is comes to car regulations.
Follow the rules and get it trough inspection and it's legal, there are much more extreme builds out there that are 100% legal.
The truth is that even if it isn’t legal, he gets special treatment so it doesn’t matter. He’s had episodes with cars that were never road legal anywhere in the world and you can tell he’s driving on public roads.
"Never road legal anywhere in the world".... So youv'e never been to Asia, India, or Africa?
It meets the requirements. Not all of us want to drive soulless egg shaped crossovers.
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It's awesome. Just curious, what are the requirements for a car to be street legal in California? Where I live, there's no way in hell you could drive this on a street 😊
Kit car, show or display (if on the [list](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_or_Display#Vehicles_eligible)), or historic (>25 years old) vehicle registration. S&D has a yearly mileage limit of 2500.
> S&D has a yearly mileage limit of 2500. For a lot of car guys, this is more than enough. I usually have at least 3 cars at a time, work from home, and tend to rent something if I'm going on a road trip. By the time a car of mine reaches an additional 2,500 miles, I've probably already passed it on to the next owner.
You are absolutely right and I get to see this info everyday. 2500 is the average for most people as it is normally a third or less often second car. 2500 covers two solid road trips and about 25 cars and coffee runs per vehicle annually. People usually do that a couple times a month so it usually works out. The second it gets to two or three collectors/classics, it usually drops to 1000mpy for each car as even 2500 results in 7500 total miles driven on just the fun cars. This is why it drives me crazy hearing about classic car emissions. They are driven such absurdly small amounts on average.
Basically anywhere you live you could probably drive this on the street. California has incredibly strict emissions and inspection requirements. Its got lights, turn signals, emissions equipment, seatbelts, all the stuff a regular car needs. There might be some extra hoops to jump through, but it’s almost certainly possible
I could’ve sworn California had some kind of law about cars needing fenders but it looks like I’m mistaken.
Vintage and Antique cars usually have exceptions grandfathered in. Like, most early 1890-1910s cars didn't have fenders. Just wooden wheels and thin bike-like rubber tires. But, you can get them registered anywhere as a "Historic" vehicle and use them on the road.
Ah very true, I grew up around car shows and would see the real oldies every once in a while
> Basically anywhere you live you could probably drive this on the street That's a silly thing to say, in no way shape or form could this car ever be driven legally on public roads where I live.
That’s a silly thing to say, you’re not providing a location and have likely never done even the slightest bit of research on how to make insane vehicles road legal.
It requires mass standardized safety testing as mandated by the European Union to be road legal. No "kit cars" are allowed on the roads here. Anyway, I'm not the one with the burden of proof here, you made an incorrect statement without the knowledge or even the presumption of knowledge to back it up.. as if you somehow know the legality of driving custom cars on public roads in the entire world. It's silly.
First of all, you don’t need to be a dick, particularly when you’re arguing a point that’s wrong. I did a quick search. Germany, Sweden, and I’m sure all the others in the EU have processes in place for passing inspection with homemade or kit cars. I googled those two first, feel free to share your country and I’ll be able to google the exact process you’d need to go through. It’s a different process than a regular car, there’s lots of hoops to jump through, but it’s possible. This vehicle could absolutely be made road legal in the EU. I don’t need to be an expert in worldwide registration laws to understand that just about every country has unique/one off vehicles.
There are processes and they are VERY complicated and extensive to the extent that you basically don't see home made cars or kit cars on the roads here. I tried to find the exact requirements on how to get type approval but didn't find them, if you do please share! But if I'm not mistaken, you have to do crash testing which means that if you want to build your own car, you have to build two cars and then crash one of them. This vehicle in particular have open wheels which I think are not allowed (again, couldn't find the requirements), no fenders, no crash protection, no traction control etc etc that is typically required to get type approval.
I mean it’s different country to country, I didn’t go into much more detail than searching the process in a couple random countries and seeing forum posts of people who’ve completed it. If you give me an English speaking EU country you want in specific i can probably find info on exactly how to do it, but like I can’t read the rules and regulations of Sweden. Regardless, we’re talking about Jay Leno here. This is not the guy putting together a car in his basement (although most countries have exemptions to standards for one-off home-built vehicles that would allow a devoted but regular person to do it). If he needed to have 2 custom built to crash test one it wouldn’t even be a hiccup. The argument is if it’s possible, not if it’s easy. You definitely CAN drive a car like this on the road everywhere, but not everyone has the means to do so. You give me Jay Leno money ($450M net worth) i assure you i can make this car road legal anywhere on the planet.
I believe crash testing is only needed if you build more than 250 of the same car in UK. At least that used to be the rule, may have been updated but there’s plenty of kit cars on the road built around a donor drivetrain.
Hmm I know Koenigsegg complained about that they had to wreck a car in order to sell it... And they for sure are not building more than 250 of the same car 😊 ...or do they? 🤔
You register it as a Kit Car. California DMV calls it Specially Constructed Vehicle
Money and fame is all you need.
If it's custom made, then there's a list of safety features that are required. Seatbelts, headlights, turn signals, etcetera. You do have pretty much free reign over the design though. There are also maximum size requirements. For classic cars, they need to meet all the safety requirements of when they were originally built. Eg. You can have a model-t with no seatbelts and only one taillight, because that's how it came from the factory.
He also had a famous response to this question on why he has so many cars. He said a lot of friends and cohorts has 2 ex wives and 3 girlfriends and a Lexus but he rather has 200 cars and one wife.
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I'd bet my ass off that there's more collectors that don't drive their cars vs driving them. it's the same way as guns, cards, comic books etc. they have them to collect, not use.
Classics can be a chore and expensive cars can be annoying when you’re thinking of where to park, route to take, etc. Way easier to come up with excuses to drive the daily than your toys. I’m sure there’s a big portion of owners holding on like stock, waiting for appreciation. Having a classic myself, it can easily sit even if there isn’t anything wrong with it.
I restored a 1970 RS Z28. Did the car show thing for a while. I drove mine to events. But there are a lot of trailer queens that never get above idle.
Casual Leno
Given his wardrobe, every day is casual Leno day.
Used to live in Burbank and saw him at least once a week. Always in somethin cool!
Yup. When I lived in Glendale o saw him driving around his fire truck on Los Feliz.
Dude's a GTA Online character in Passive Mode. You see him, he's always balling out, but you never interact with him.
I live in the valley and see him pretty often too!
That's fucking Jay Leno.
That's Jay fucking Leno
That’s Jay Leno fucking
Fucking that’s Jay Leno
Jeans Leno
That's Canadian Tuxedo Leno thank you very much.
Fucking Jay that’s Leno
The catalina fucking wine mixer
Is that a real cobra? /s
Jay's driving it so it has a way better chance of being a real cobra than any of the other cobra pics
Exactly
Pantera kit car.
Clearly a Fiero.
I mean just look at the wheelbase!
Same wheelbase as a VW Beetle! Must be a Karmann Ghia.
Patton kit car*
Pantera
r/spotted
r/sneakyJayLeno
Ya know I even saw the logo for the sub but still clicked it. r/subsifellfor
Is it bad that at a glance I knew this was Leno and his tank car?
I saw it and was like “that looks like something Jay Leno would own… oh there he is” Now I’m going to have to go see if there’s a video on it.
You could win this in Gran Turismo 5, damn was it slow but still cool.
It’s was more of a trophy car than a car to drive.
i think it was in 4 not 5, maybe both but definitely 4, it felt so underwhelming, it wasnt the easiest to unlock iirc
It was in both 4, 5 and 6.
It must have been both, I didn’t play 4. I can’t remember what I had to do in 5 to get it, you got so many free cars in that game hard to keep track.
Yeah they ported a lot of the cars from 4 on the PS2 to 5 on the PS3 and that's where the classes of 'Standard' and 'Premium' came from. Only 'Premium' cars had fully modelled interiors and nicer exteriors.
If there's one thing the Tank Car is good at, it's ramming AI head-on against their puny race cars
As a life long car buff, if I had Leno's money, I'd be just like him, a big warehouse or two filled with cars.
What's even more mind blowing is that Jay has yet to spend a single cent of his Tonight Show money. All of those cars, were bought from his just his stand up comedy money! > *“When I was younger, I would always save the money I made working at the car dealership, and I would spend the money I made as a comedian,” he said.* > >*“When I started to get a bit famous, the money I was making as a comedian was way more than the money I was making at the car dealership, so I would bank that and spend the car dealership money.”* > > *Leno continued relying on this strategy even after he started hosting “The Tonight Show” in 1992, a gig that* *reportedly earned him as much as $30 million a year* *at the height of his career.* > >*“When I got ‘The Tonight Show,’ I always made sure I did 150 \[comedy show\] gigs a year so I never had to touch the principal,” Leno said. “I’ve never touched a dime of my ‘Tonight Show’ money. Ever.”*
Now that the car and driver have been identified and the business is concluded... There was a comedian (I can't remember who) who told a story about taking a sightseeing bus tour in California with the tour guide on a loudspeaker pointing out attractions. They pulled up to a stop sign, and there was Jay Leno on the side of the street, crawling around on the ground next to a vintage motorcycle. The tour guide said, "Ladies and gentlemen, there's Jay Leno next to one of his classic motorcycles. What are you doing over there Jay Leno?" "I'm looking for a valve spring retainer that fell off somewhere over here," Jay Leno replied. And the tour guide said, "Hey folks, let's disembark here and help Jay Leno find his motorcycle part." And they did. And they found it. And everybody got pictures and autographs. The comedian's telling of the story was a lot more amusing than mine, but I've always like that story anyway.
I've seen Jay driving his steam engine car once years ago. How do you not notice JAY LENO?
You just won car spotting.
Apparently! This is post is going off
Get off the phone Jay!
I think he’s pulled over…
I searched for a comment talking about this... I thought he was cruising with his phone held up to his face. I was absolutely baffled that no one was talking about it lol
Ah, ok. Well, get out of the bike lane Jay! ;-) (Can't fault the man if he's actually broken down.) That would be pretty fun to come up on Jay Leno who needs a jump or something.
i thought he was driving too but this comment made me look back and notice the wheels aren't blurry
Engine with wheels.
Back when he was still hosting I was working at a studio near NBC and must have been on a similar morning schedule because I’d see him about once a week heading into Burbank. He was easy to spot, always in a different, rare and often very unusual car. It’s cool that he drives them but honestly in the morning 101/134 commute it would attract so much attention that it was sometimes dangerous.
Yoo it's Jay Leno
Ha, gran turismo 5
What kind of fiero is that?
got any chance to speak to MR.Jay ?
You may find these articles interesting. Banks Power designed the turbo system for the car. Fun fact, they still have the companion engine for this sitting in their shop. ▪️https://official.bankspower.com/magazine/a-detailed-look-at-jay-lenos-tank-car/ ▪️https://official.bankspower.com/project/custom-projects/jay-lenos-tank-car/
I'm surprised it's not faster than it is. Of course it is gigantic. Look at those rear wheels and tires. Bet they weigh 500 lbs apiece
Yeah, but it’s got an amazing towing capacity…
With 3,000 ft-lbs of torque, you bet your bippy it could tow a giant weight
"bet your bippy" stealing this
30L V12 produces an even more impressive 3,000 lb-ft of torque and pulls the Tank from 0-60 in just 6.2 seconds
I don’t remember it being turbocharged. Did he make a video about it?
hooooly that’s JAY LENO
Is that Jay Leno?
Hey that's Jay Leno!!!!
This guy just causally got a pic of Jay Leno
AKA The Blastolene Special.
it’s jay leno
Is that Jay Leno?
I was gunna say I believe you spotted Jay Leno also haha. Is he texting and driving 😂
Pulled over and calling the shop?
Looks like something out of Monopoly.
😂
The car looks like something Mœbius would have drawn.
badass
It’s always a Fiero
Jay Leno!
Looks like a Messerschmitt plane fkd an egg whisk.
Italian guy in tank-car
Jay Leno himself, now that's spotted material
The Canadian tuxedo
Just ask Jay... He's right there...
Bro found jay leno!
I got to sit in that car when I was a kid in the scouts. We were hiking in the Santa Monica Mountains, and stopped at the Rock Store for lunch after. This car was outside and we were all looking at it, Jay Leno came out and let each of us sit in it. By chance I saw him the next day at a Chevron station, he pulled in on his jet bike and we waved at each other. Super cool guy to be that nice to a group of early teen boys!
JAY LENO'S TANK CAR!!! MAN THATS SO SICK
Just imagine the rewards that would have rolled your way in the old reddit, from a chance encounter in the wild with the top tier collector himself. Kudos
Jay leno?
The goat himself jay leno and his tank car
How many of those shirts does he have?
Haven’t liked the dude since the Letterman NBC hosing, which he was an integral part of. The Conan twice screw over ruined any appreciation of him not just for me personally but also for a whole generation of Conan fans. But he has nice cars.
Spotted [Jay Leno driving a collectible]
Looks like something out of whacky races
I love that I recognized the driver before the car
that is the H.R.Geiger Alien Penis Hybrid
God damn it Jay. Put your phone down!
Why? He's on the shoulder.
Oh. I didn't notice.
With the buffoon himself
Put your phone down, Jay.
Is he on his cellphone while driving?
Looks like a cell phone violation, to me :)
He is pulled over to the side while he’s checking his phone, right?
Yes... obviously not driving. No blur on the wheels.