The WORST episodes of Jay Leno's Garage
Every episode of Jay Leno's Garage ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Jay Leno's Garage!
Jay Leno loves wheels, and his Big Dog Garage houses one of America's great collections of cars and motorcycles. Custom-built from the ground up, the garage is staffed by a crack team of mechanical wizards, who can fix, restore or customize just about anything. Join Jay and his team for a series of unique automotive adventures every week.
#1 - Jay's Book Club: The Hot Rod Art Book
Season 2012 - Episode 105 - Aired 10/31/2012
Dwayne Vance stops by with the latest installment in his Masters of Chicken Scratch series of collectible - and instructional - art books.
#2 - 1924 Bentley Twin Turbo
Season 2012 - Episode 113 - Aired 11/8/2012
After tracking down five 8-liter Bentley motors, Jay decided to build his very own British hot rod, in the spirit of W.O.'s Bentley Boys.
#3 - 1963 Chrysler Turbine: Ultimate Edition
Season 2012 - Episode 112 - Aired 11/7/2012
It's the amazing car Jay's lusted after since he was 14 years old, and today's episode is packed with all kinds of amazing footage! We've got a book review, a road test, and Chrysler's original promotional video.
#4 - What's In Your Garage: Bailey's Blade XTR
Season 2012 - Episode 111 - Aired 11/6/2012
Bailey designed and created the Blade XTR in his own garage and Jay wanted to congratulate him on his great craftsmanship.
#5 - 2009 Suzuki GSX-R1000
Season 2012 - Episode 110 - Aired 11/6/2012
How fast could you go? Do the power-to-weight math: 155 at the rear wheel at 452 pounds...
#6 - 1976 MV Agusta 750 America
Season 2012 - Episode 109 - Aired 11/4/2012
Get close up to one of the most iconic postwar road-going fours ever made.
#7 - Restoration Blog: 1962 Daimler SP250
Season 2012 - Episode 108 - Aired 11/2/2012
Jay found this rust-free one-owner car in a field, and couldn't wait to start restoring the last Daimler model to feature a Daimler engine - in this case, a 2.5-liter hemispherical head V8.
#8 - 2012 Jeep, Red Jacket Edition
Season 2012 - Episode 107 - Aired 11/1/2012
Pat Muldoon of VWerks stops by the garage to show what his amazing conversion kit can do. Take a Wrangler 4-door, "UpFit" with the kit and presto - you've got a high-quality, American-made off-roader that's like a pickup CJ8!
#9 - John Fitch - Interview
Season 2012 - Episode 106 - Aired 10/31/2012
At the age of 91, legendary race car driver John Fitch is still racing, most recently at the Bonneville Salt Flats.
#10 - Restoration Blog: 1966 Lotus Elan 26R, Update 7
Season 2012 - Episode 114 - Aired 11/9/2012
Chief fabricator Jim Hall is pulling out his hair as he pulls apart and reengineers the Lotus' wiring to fit what will be a left-hand drive Leno special.
#11 - Blastolene's Piss'd Off Pete
Season 2012 - Episode 104 - Aired 10/30/2012
Automotive artist Randy Grubb chops a Peterbilt into drivable sculpture.
#12 - What's In Your Garage?
Season 2012 - Episode 103 - Aired 10/29/2012
Jay wants to see your car projects! Here is how: Upload a video to YouTube and then create a video response to this clip. Click "Respond to this video..." below and then click "Create a video response". You can use one of your existing clips or upload a new one.
#13 - 2012 Tesla Model S
Season 2012 - Episode 102 - Aired 10/28/2012
It carries five adults and two kids and has a 300 mile range! Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen gives Jay an up-close deep dive on the Tesla S.
#14 - 2008 SSC Ultimate Aero
Season 2012 - Episode 101 - Aired 10/26/2012
The world's fastest production car - made in the USA!
#16 - 1968 State Farm Camaro
Season 2012 - Episode 99 - Aired 10/24/2012
State Farm's Earl Hyser takes Jay through a convertible Camaro that's half factory spec, half restomod to illustrate the impact of modification on insurance rates and vehicle value.
#17 - EcoJet: Definitive Edition
Season 2012 - Episode 98 - Aired 10/22/2012
Like all great feats of the imagination, the EcoJet began life on a napkin. As an auto enthusiast, Jay Leno had always wanted to design his own turbine-engined car, and when he conceived the notion for a high-performance, yet environmentally friendly, vehicle the pen and napkin came out. Eight months later the results were premiered at the 2006 Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) show in Las Vegas. The primary goal was to design and build a car that ran on environmentally friendly, renewable bio-diesel fuel and that didn't drive like a Prius. Of course, as Jay has quipped, that makes harvest time the only time of year when there'll be plenty of fuel available, but that's beside the point. The heart of the EcoJet is a 650-horsepower Honeywell LT-101 turbine engine, which sits inside a modified Corvette Z06 hydroformed aluminum frame with aluminum and magnesium structural and chassis components. The vehicle's shell is an advanced construction of carbon fiber over Kevlar, and the body is painted with environmentally friendly paint from Glasurit's 9 Line Waterborne Technology lines, which is designed to dramatically reduce emissions during application. Though the car was built almost entirely at Jay's Big Dog Garage, the design and engineering was actually overseen by GM under the leadership of Ed Welburn, GM Vice President of Global Design and Frank Saucedo, head of GM's Design Studio in North Hollywood, California. But nobody said that designing and building an environmentally friendly supercar was quick and easy. It's been three long years since the inception of the EcoJet project, and there have been many bumps along a painstaking road. It didn't take long for its monster turbine engine to burn out clutch discs, brakes, and torque converter. Jay and the Big Dog crew always knew that the EcoJet would be a long term labor of love and a work in progress. Now that the EcoJet is finally on the road and clocking speeds in excess of 150 mph, the next
#18 - Jay's Book Club: Hurst Equipped
Season 2012 - Episode 122 - Aired 11/21/2012
Mark Fletcher and Richard Truesdell stop by with their new book, detailing the story of George Hurst and his visionary high-performance speed parts.
#19 - Restoration Blog: 1962 Daimler SP250, Update 2
Season 2012 - Episode 130 - Aired 11/29/2012
The chassis has been straightened and painted, the engine taken apart and cleaned... witness the beginning of the Daimler's reconstruction!
#20 - 1931 Henderson KJ
Season 2012 - Episode 129 - Aired 11/29/2012
Although they often go unnoticed in the Harley Indian wars, Henderson motorcycles were the largest and fastest motorcycles of their time, widely favored by cops and speed demons.
#21 - Jay's Book Club: Lost Hot Rods II
Season 2012 - Episode 128 - Aired 11/28/2012
Jay sits down with Pat Ganahl to talk about his new book, Lost Hot Rods II
#22 - Andy Green: Fastest Man On Wheels
Season 2012 - Episode 127 - Aired 11/27/2012
Coming soon Jay sits down with Andy Green to discuss the future of speed.
#23 - Leather License Plates
Season 2012 - Episode 126 - Aired 11/27/2012
Did you know drivers made their own license plates in the early days of motoring? Up until 1913, many states gave you a number and expected you to make your own plate. Luckily, Steve Hammatt is still making hardy leather plates to specs of the era!
#24 - Driving the Pagani Huayra
Season 2012 - Episode 125 - Aired 11/25/2012
Now that it's all legal in the U.S., Jay test drives the outrageous, jet-inspired Italian supercar, one man's vision of what a car should be.
#25 - Betty King - Interview
Season 2012 - Episode 124 - Aired 11/23/2012
Jay sits down with the granddaughter of Rollin White the steam car genius behind the White Motor Company.