Velocity

 p. 187 Jay Leno on the McLaren: ...The downside is it's crazy expensive. There’s a McLaren service center near hear – that’s the great thing about LA, no matter what you’re interested in it’s here – so I took it in for service and the guy said, “We replaced the wiper blade.” I said there’s no need to replace the wiper. It doesn’t rain and if it does I don’t take it out. He said, “Well, it’s just a matter of course that we replace the blade.” I said, Okay, how much is the blade? “$1500.” ...I said, Don’t touch the blade next time….That problem aside, Leno states, “It’s a fascinating car and I think it’s probably THE greatest sports car of the 20th century." 

p. 293 Jay Leno on the Ford GT: That’s an emotional thing for me because when I was a kid we were a Ford family. We had Falcons and my dad had a ’64 Galaxy, so we went in to buy the ’66 and I said, "Dad can I pick the engine?" [Note: Jay Leno was born in 1950 and would have been 15 or 16 at this time]. My mother was saying, "Oh, let the boy pick the engine. What difference does it make what engine is in the car?" So I met with the salesman, Tom Lawrence, and I pulled him aside and said, "We want to get the Galaxy with the 7-liter option, the C6 automatic, and the glass-pack mufflers." So we wait about four weeks and the car comes in and my father and I go to pick it up. He starts it and it goes: "Hunga, hunga." My father says, "The muffler, there’s a hole in the goddamn muffler. This is a brand new car and there’s a hole in the muffler." The salesman says, "Mr. Leno, you didn’t order mufflers. You wanted the glass packs." And then, when we leave, my dad pulls out of the dealership, steps on the gas, the car fishtails with all that power. My dad says, "Jesus Christ, what did I buy?"