Jay Leno might be best known for his Tonight Show, but he’s also a hot rod, car collector junky.
Recently, Leno featured a natural-gas fueled hot rod on his show “Jay Leno’s Garage” that can drive more than 600 miles on a single tank of natural gas.
“It is amazing to me that we are into this lithium-ion battery thing, and we have something like 600 years of natural gas right here in the United States,” Leno told the car’s designer J.T. Nesbitt.
Nesbitt, who is from New Orleans, said he was inspired to build the car after hearing Leno say he was a fan of natural gas and didn’t understand why it wasn’t considered sexier than it was.
The car, dubbed the Magnolia Special, was completely hand fabricated and uses a 4.2-liter Jaguar engine that was tweaked to run off natural gas.
After finishing the car, Nesbitt drove the car from New York to Los Angeles to show it off to Leno. The 2-500 mile drive had to be perfectly planned by Nesbitt since there are only a handful of natural gas stations in the U.S. (He ended up sleeping outside of a 24 hour natural gas station until it opened in the morning.)
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Mon, November 14, 2011
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