Yahoo Autos There's Almost Nothing Jay Leno's Garage Can't Fix
What do you when your 1914 fire engine gets a hole punched in its engine block? Go on Craigslist? What if Mercedes-Benz Classic wants to charge you $490 for an air conditioner knob on your 1971 Mercedes-Benz 3.5? Pay the greedy bastards? And what happens when your Brookland racer's 1921 aero-engine needs new hand-made water jackets, because the original steel ones rotted away? For Jay Leno, these are everyday situations-and problems that his dedicated crew of artisans and mechanics have handily solved.
Modern technology comes to the rescue of machines that weren't designed to keep ticking in 2016. A broken block of a 20-liter four-cylinder out of a 1914 Christie front-wheel drive fire engine is no problem; a new 3D printing process can take care of your vintage Mercedes plastic needs; and with the right people onboard, you can fabricate almost anything out of metal in-house. Bringing a bunch of pre-war bikes and cars back to life, like a 1953 Cunningham with its one-piece fenders, an even rarer Frazier-Nash with a 1.5-liter six-cylinder twin-cam hemi, or a 1914 Detroit Electric battery-powered hot rod still takes years of hard work, but Jay's crew is on top of it.
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