12-31-2008, 10:08 AM
|
|
Senile Club Cobra Member
|
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Buffalo, NY USA,
NY
Cobra Make, Engine: Superformance
Posts: 4,575
|
|
Not Ranked
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim Holden
Jay Leno was at the SAAC convention in 1986 (as I recall) in Dearborn, MI with his replica. The car was built out in Wisc. (again, as I recall) in the early-mid 80's to essentially original spec. At the convention, he was just "one of the guys..." doing burn outs and shooting bottle rockets at Chevy's on the road next to the convention hotel. ...and then the police came.
Jim
|
Remember that event well...a local guy from Rochester was the bottle rocket instigator. And the police were perhaps also responding to the Burnout/drag race event that had started up on Michigan Drive with the shutdown lane being the entry to the Fairlane Center. A good time was had by all until it got a little out of hand and the gendarmes were forced to "shut it down".
Actually Jay did not have his car at Dearborn that year, Mark was not done with it yet but he did drive Mark's car around. For some years after that event when Jay came to Buffalo he would call and leave tickets/backstage passes for us to visit. A real car/goodguy who hit the bigtime.
__________________
"I'm high all right, but on the real thing....powerful gasoline and a clean windshield..."
rick@autoventureusa.net
|
Threaded Mode
