The Official "Jay Leno Doesn't Like Ferraris" Thread

I think he was referring to the 330 GTC which is about $400K for a good one.

 

this video made the rounds several months ago, it's still a nice story about a car by a couple of entertainment personalities

 

I thought it was great. It shows the reality of owning multiple collector cars. Stuff breaks and you have fuel brainfarts.

Every single time I hear about 330 2+2s going for six figures, I think back to one that sat at Park Place in Bellevue, WA for years during the early-to-mid 1990s just waiting for a buyer. Any of us could have bought it for $35K.

 

I had on old MGB and I had the same thing with the speedometer happen to me.

British... Italian... all the same!

 

This was a great video - highlighted by the charming tribulations that can come, often unexpectedly, during the ownership of a vintage car. I like that these things weren't edited out, and it was just about two car guys enjoying a vintage car. It sounded great too. Does anyone know the serial number?

 

That was pretty cool. Thanks for posting.

 

Great, thanks for sharing. Wish I got the 2+2 a dozen years ago when I was thinking seriously about it. But the twin headlamp series 1 in preference.

 

I think Carolla planned to have Jay fix his Ferrari, I don't buy the everything falls apart in one day but its an old Ferrari, it could happen.

I don't think he drives it much and didn't even fill it up knowing it was film day at Jay's. Com'on now Adam, Jay seemed abit perturb at the end there thinking this guy is an idiot!
No worries Adam, we still love him and he is funny!

 

I agree, many of us have had similar adventures with our older Ferraris and other cars with character.

Great show with two real car guys having a little fun and not getting stressed out because the car isn't perfect.

 

He obviously appreciates the good stuff. Listen to his critic, agree with him or not, he certainly makes the right observations

 

Carolla had purchased the car a couple of years earlier and barely worked on it in the meantime. Carolla and Leno are buddies, and at Jay's invitation Adam "brought something cool to Jay's shop".

the 330 still had the fuel in it from the previous year, and Carolla never thought Jay would want to drive it more than a few parade laps.

Carolla explained on his Podcast that Leno knows every cop around his shop and studio and basically can get away with motorized murder. He drove the Ferrari hard. Far harder than Carolla had done since purchasing it. He also drove, and drove, and drove. That is why they ran out of fuel in the middle of nowhere. The speedo cable seizing was just a fluke thing, probably not unexpected in a nearly half-century old car that is rarely driven.

 

That was awesome! Just as I get ready to tackle the winter project he sums up what has been brewing in my head for a couple of years: the more work I do on the car, the more I chase down things or try a DIY maintenance bit, the more I grow attached to it. Then it's not about how much it is worth so I can trade to the next thing, but how much I love it.

Thanks for posting!

 

It's people like them (and Seinfeld, maybe) who should have been asked to host "Top Gear US," not the guys they picked. Maybe people would actually watch it and maybe it'd be worth watching if they had good hosts.

 

Jay is not worthy of driving a Ferrari!

 

Really nice Vid...

The speedo cable is so classic!

 

Great video and one of my favorite Ferraris and a future purchase for me.

I restored a Corvette a few years ago and the drive drive home after purchase resulted in fuel starvation due to a bad fuel pump and the speedo cable squeaking from dryness and being driving by a fried gear drive in the distributor. The drive culminated with a broken fuel line dumping a couple of gallons on the driveway. And my wife asked why I packed a bag with duck tape, fire extinguisher, flat fix, toolkit,... when I asked her to drive me to pick up the car.

 

Carolla did the initial pilot as host of Top Gear US, but then also was on a pilot paid for by NBC IIRC. Rule as he explained it was that for the NBC pilot he only could be associated with that project, so had to bow out of TGUS. Of course then TG goes ahead and his NBC pilot wasn't picked up. Basically the timing of the two were what prevented him from being on TGUS.

Later he was on a decent show on Speed called The Car Show. It had it's moments but was only on for one season. I personally liked it better than TGUS, which is just a copy of the original, far superior, BBC Top Gear.

 

Leno was cool. He liked the car and the era, had complementary things to say about Ferrari and Pininfarina, and explains his preference on cars. I respect that.

 

Great vid! Hopefully might turn Jay around some on Ferrari ownership. He definitely likes the old 12s and doesn't lack for funds.

The speedo cable noise is all too familiar - same thing happened with my 330 but the needle didn't fall off. Fix is easy - unscrew cable from back of guage, squirt in some lubricant, screw back on. If the thing is clogged with old hardened grease, no more difficult but more time consuming - pull the cable and sheath, clean up and relubricate, then put back in.

 

Repost from a while back.

Don't search "Jay Leno Ferrari" on this site, you'll get tons of hits.

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=378347

Poor Jay should just buy a Ferrari so we can leave him alone.

 

Please leave him alone, he owns one already ! He drove a Hot Rod powered by a Chrysler tank engine that looked like a giant old indy car from the 30's or 40's to our local meet Supercar Sunday last week. He shows up fairly often generally in something very unusual. He is very knowledgeable as a mechanic and is a great guy enjoying himself frequently at Southern California events.
I've heard the story on why he dosen't own more Ferrari's too many times.....but we can include him in Tifosi.

 

What did he buy?

 

His loss. When I get lousy service, I go to another place. Don't blame the product, blame the salesman.

 

Why do people keep taking sewing circle gossip for gospel? It's nauseating to see pages-long threads discussing what people think that a certain person feels or thinks. Maybe there was a story there once upon a time. But the horse is dead and may not have ever existed in the form everyone thinks it did.

 

Why can't Ferrari fans get over Jay Leno?

Are you so insecure in your enjoyment of something that every single other person has to like it as well?

I just find it rather strange.

(this appears to be a topic that all new members must start a thread about).