“It finally took someone with the intelligence, chutzpah, and charisma of Jay Leno to get things changed.”
he first time I met Jay Leno was when Robert Escalante, of Custom Auto Service, needed to deliver Jay’s 1956 Packard Caribbean to him up in Burbank, California. Robert asked if I could drive a backup car—a 146-inch wheelbase 1947 Packard Custom Eight—so he could get home. I was delighted. I had been a fan of Leno’s for years; more importantly, I knew he was a
