The New York Times reports:
Think of comedian Jay Leno not as a car collector, but as the patron saint of lost automotive causes.
“I’m a fan of lost technology,” he said, in explaining his collecting tastes. We were talking about the turbine-powered sports car that he and General Motors had teamed up to build, which I wrote about for the Sunday Automobiles section.
“All my cars have a good story behind them,” he continued. “Like, they were ahead of their time because, well, they were ahead of their time. The kind of thing where the people who made them lost money on every one they sold.”
Steam-powered cars are a good example. Mr. Leno has at least three Stanley Steamers, including a 1906 Steam Rocket model, which is the oldest vehicle in his collection. “That was a Vanderbilt Cup car,” he said proudly. That year, 1906, the steamer set a world record of 127.6 m.p.h. on the sands of Ormond Beach, Fla., a land-speed record course of world renown...
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