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JAY LENO

My life is all about unique driving experiences. Anything out of the ordinary is what I crave. Sometimes it’s about handling, braking and acceleration; other times it’s about the complete absence of road feel, wafting along and what Detroit used to call the Boulevard Drive.

I love just about anything up to the mid-1960s, when designers could create whatever they wanted, no matter how impractical. Swivel seats, neon dashboards, even rear-facing bench seats so the kids could see who was about to

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