Sammy Hagar with his BBi on Jay Leno's Garage

Not sure if you guys have seen this yet but Sammy shares his BBi with Jay, the one used in the video in the 80's for "I cant drive 55" fun to watch. I have also included the video where you can notice that they also use a 308 for some shots when you do not see the whole car, not sure why?

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Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvV3nn_de2k

 

Interesting. In the music video he has 4 cromodora 15x7.5" rims on all 4 corners rather than the TRX's. (Not to mention the 308 they sub in for whatever reason). The narrow wheels really show from the rear when he's being chased by the cops, the rear wheels are offset in too much and too narrow. And the external gas tank door lock on the clamshell was early 82. He needs one of my diffs!

 

I loved Jay telling him not to rev it so hard when he started it!

 

Saw it on TV. Anybody got a link for the entire video, where Sammy gets arrested, and Jay smiles and drives his car home?

Also, Sammy sez he got the car to 180. Yup! That'll get the cops upset.

 

Perhaps to make it easier to smoke the rear tires without e'sploding the diff.

 

He must mean Km/h. No way that car is doing 180 mph.

I did watch the show, typical Jay schtick at the end with the cop. But who cares it was nice to see a black BBi out and about.

 

Call me nosey, but it would be great to mark his VIN in the Boxer book Registry. There are a couple 82' Nero/Tan's listed assuming it's registered in California.
Dave

 

No way, he still has that thing?!

I love his tequila

Resposado

 

I understand he does.

 

Yes and He also has many Ferraris including a white LaFerrari, and he's almost 70 yo. Unbelievable how time fly.

 

It's likely they only had the car, Sammy Hagar, and the band for the shoot dates.
When they went to edit they either weren't happy with the footage they had or decided they needed a little bit more/a couple of insert shots.

Easier to do one day of pickup shots with an available substitute that most (not Fchatters) wouldn't notice as being different than to have to coordinate schedules and wait for the Boxer to be available again.

Hilarious to go back and see that again after all this time. Thanks for posting the videos.

 

He sold out of his tequila company years ago.

The car he kept.

 

awesome clips, thanks for posting

 

Yes, because he is a driver, collector and connoisseur ; not a prospector-collector.

That is why I have always liked him, plus a very down to earth guy!
i

 

Trivia - the mechanic who suggested hagar to eddie while eddie was in his shop - claudio zampoli of Cizeta fame. A car i lust after.

 

The last time I saw it, the drivers seat was so bad it looked like rats had attacked it.

 

Guess he had the interior redone, it looked great on the show. And yes, Sammy seems to be a super positive down to earth guy, a rarity in the famous musician world indeed! I first got into his music when he released Three Lock Box in the '80s!
Greg


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Saw this today and wondered if there was a thread here about it. I think it's awesome he's kept it all these years and says it's still his favorite.

Would be fun to ask Claudio if he's ever replaced the diff.

 

I'm aware. I miss the hand-blasted bottles before the sale. I still have one in the kitchen. But the price is down big-time since the sale which is nice. That bottle used to sell for 65-70 dollars back when I was in college. Now they're in the 35-40 range.

http://www.redrocker.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/gallery_large/images/blog/p1000008_0.jpg

 

Most definitely a very down to earth, grounded individual. When I was a cop in the Air Force I won a meet and greet experience and backstage passes to his show in Boston in 1997 IIRC. As soon as I mentioned my love for cars, after talking about why I joined the military, we went on and on for almost 20 minutes discussing cars. He asked more questions to me than I did to him!

 

I thought Sammy was a member here? He should send his BB to Newman for a full resto.