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JNC at the Big Dog Garage
So a three of weeks ago the JCCS went down. To give you an outlook of how big the show has gotten and how much it has brought together the old school Japanese car community, here’s a experiences about a well-known celebrity and an attendee who came from 3000 miles away.
Brian Baker is property owner of Formula H Motorworks and the top Honda S-car connoisseur in the US, who came all the way from Middletown, NY. The reason? Because car accumulator and talk show host Jay Leno needed him to make ready his 1965 Honda SM600 for the episode. That’s the back of his head in the photo above, riding shotgun (it’s JDM, yo!) to the JCCS.
As one of only a few of, if not the only, SM600s (a notch above the standard S600) in the US, this car’s retelling is somewhat curious. Back in 2006, we profiled the car before it found its way into Mr. Leno’s hands. Leno acquired it in 2007 and enlisted the aide of Brian Baker to get it ready for that year’s JCCS.
If there was an Olympic gold medal for S-car mechanism rebuilds, Brian would have walked away with it, but there still wasn’t enough mores to finish it before the show, and Leno attended with his Mazda Cosmo Sports in lieu of. In the intervening year, Brian flew out to Burbank a a handful of of more times to work on the car, and those who attended JCCS 2008 got to see a fully restored SM600 and the ensuing mob about that occurred around the most famous car collector in America.
But the finest part about the whole thing is that Brian totally hooked us up. We’ve known Brian since about 2000, protracted before JNC had even been conceived, based on a shared rapture for classic Hondas. He is seriously one of the nicest, most hearty and generous people in the vintage car Terra, who somehow convinced Leno that it would be a good theory to invite us to the Big Dog Garage. So on the day before the JCCS, we received an unexpected call from Brian saying, “How would you like to see Jay Leno’s cars?” Lofty thing we got that wheel bearing immobilized!
We’re sure you’ve heard of Leno’s collecting, but it’s even more awe-inspiring in person. With well over 100 cars and quite just as many bikes, the place is immense. There’s a room devoted to a T to insanely rare multi-million-dollar Bugattis and Duesenberg. He has everything, from odd steam- and energized-powered cars built at the oust of the century, to the very first Corvette ZR-1, Waffle Challenger and Ford GT to roll off the setting up lines, gifts from the manufacturers. There are basic, custom-built one-offs made from engines against to power vintage aircraft, and things like a couple-turbo Olds Toronado converted to RWD. Each car is surrounded by memorabilia and ogre murals on the wall and all of them, even the oldest ones, can be driven. The improper was packed with so many priceless treasures that the whole ever we felt like we didn’t be attached on such hallowed ground.
Jay Leno himself couldn’t have been kinder. He was scheduled to fly out to Vegas for a show that very gloom, and yet here he was, giving us a tour that he’s quite given a million times before. He even let Dan, who is 6-foot-4, sit in his 1937 Fiat Topolino to picket the tiny car’s massive shack. You can tell by the way he speaks about his collection that the man actually loves machinery. He’s not yellow to get his hands dirty and he knows how each and every unattached one of them works.
Here’s a video of Leno talking about his Honda.
Even the workspace of the Big Dog Garage is more than what most of us could speculation of. There are three hydraulic lifts, giant machines to cut any express of gasket or small metal part you can conjure, enough while to completely dismantle several cars in an organized protocol, and a fully functional kitchen nicer than any our costly mother has ever cooked in. The place was verily unbelievable.
On one lift there was a streamlined Bentley that raced at Brooklands in the 30s. On another, the GM Ecojet, a carbon-fibered concept built around a jet machine. During our visit, Brian threw the Honda on the third one to interruption the chain casings in preparation for JCCS. Thanks to him, we can even say we got to exertion on Jay Leno’s car at his garage!* So, blame you, Brian and Jay, for giving us the opportunity to examine out an incredible collection that would rival any auto museum’s. Most of all, though, we are thrilled that the swift interest in nostalgics has given guys like Brian, who has been working on these cars since he got his validate, the recognition he deserves.
And while there are “No Photos” signs posted all over the garage, Leno was perilous enough to pose with us for a quick snap before heading out. From revenge to left, that’s Honda art-lover Ken Weidner from Pennsylvania, us two pinheads, Jay Leno, Brian Baker, and the Honda SM600.
*Even if it is at most holding the oil pan.
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