Pursuits
Leno's Latest Duesie
Funnyman and car buff Jay Leno's ultimate barn find: the last original-owner, original-condition Duesenberg
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Barn finds are the most magnetic part of the collector car hobby. Like Howard Carter entering the pharaoh's tomb, collectors feel like they're walking in on history. Journalist and SCMer Tom Cotter has even written a book on barn finds, The Cobra in the Barn: Great Stories of Automotive Archaeology, and is part way through a second edition.
Comedian and talk show host (and SCMer, of course) Jay Leno is known for his dedication to collector cars and motorcycles and is an admitted sucker for barn finds. With about 80 cars and the same number of bikes, Leno once cracked that his friends in L.A. tend to have multiple girlfriends and one car. He's the other way around.