Jay Leno and Adam Carolla take one of Paul Newman's race cars out to Sonoma Raceway to see if they can beat his time. He started racing professionally at age 46, and became a legend, winning four national championships, owning some very successful racing teams and eventually became the oldest driver to win at Daytona — at 70 years old.After sizing up some of the cars that led to those wins, Leno and Carolla took Newman's Nissan 300ZX to California's Sonoma Raceway to try to match the time Newman clocked there. Adam Carolla is a comedian, carpenter, podcaster, filmmaker, best-selling author, race car driver and entrepreneur. Most people know that in addition to being a television and podcast host (among other career projects), Adam Carolla has a pretty serious love for cars. "I started tracking down Newman's cars, restoring his cars, and then going out and racing them," Carolla told Leno. Carolla, who calls that purchase the biggest he’ll ever make, “not counting whenever I get divorced,” brought the car home and began selling off some of his collection of vintage Lamborghinis to fund the deal.Unlike some collectors, Carolla, who is also the force behind the 2015 documentary film “Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman,” doesn’t keep the cars in pristine condition and store them in a museum. "When I met [Adam], he was digging ditches, literally, in the San Fernando Valley, but now he's racing Paul Newman's actual race car. Kids under age 12 get in free.Get our free business newsletter for insights and tips for getting by. Collector Adam Carolla says the $4.4-million car is the biggest purchase he’ll ever make.Helmets, race suits and photographs are among the Paul Newman memorabilia in Adam Carolla’s garage. So far in 2018 Adam has raced at Road Atlanta, in the Walter Mitty race, at the UK’s Goodwood Festival of Speed in the 935, in the 935 again for the Monterey Motorsports Reunion at Laguna Seca, and he’ll return to Laguna Seca in September for the Rennsport Reunion in the Porsche 935. It was Carolla's first time in that car and on that track.
He's taken a deep dive into the actor's racing career, going so far as buying some of his old race cars. He restores them to competition level, and then races them.This year, he’ll take Newman cars to the Goodwood Festival of Speed in England in July, the vintage races at Laguna Seca during the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion in August and to the same track for the Rennsport Reunion in September.Carolla, to his regret, never got to see Newman drive any of the cars he has since acquired, though the actor was still active on the track into his early 80s.“I’m from North Hollywood. They were Japanese cars, too, not Italian or German, and they were from the 1980s — and those weren’t being collected a decade ago as they are now. “The Paul Newman part was secondary.”At that time, Carolla explained, no one was bidding against him to acquire the vehicles owned or raced by Newman, star of such films as “The Hustler,” “Cool Hand Luke” and “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.”They were race cars, for one thing — and those hadn’t taken off in value yet.
He also owns more cars raced by the late actor-driver Paul Newman than anyone else.That part was an accident. These days, he hosts a weekday podcast called “The Adam Carolla Show.” If I didn’t buy it all from him, I might end up having to buy each piece individually from other people. So he bought that one, too.After Newman died in 2008 at 83, Carolla was approached by the movie star’s former racing partner and offered a whole collection of Newman collectibles: cars, helmets, race suits and more.Carolla didn’t really want all that, but, as he said, “Who else is going to buy this stuff? Jay's theory is that the ZX's cambelt got loose which caused a domino effect that ended with the engine giving out.He'll know for sure when Carolla sends him the repair bill.Despite the hiccup, the day was still one for the books, leading Leno to acknowledge how far his friend has come. As Leno put it, 'We blew it up." Adam Carolla is a California-based comedian, podcaster, carpenter, TV host, race car driver, and director. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. But I knew this was my chance. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) A Lamborghini Miura P400S and a … No one I knew was into that stuff,” Carolla said.Carolla’s garage is not open to the public, and the Newman cars have never been displayed together. As the host of such shows as CarCast, Ace on the House, and Adam Carolla and Friends Build Stuff Live, and with a massive classic car collection to boot, funnyman Adam Carolla is … And though they were driven by a movie star, the movie star wasn’t Steve McQueen, whose vehicles all have much added value.“The fact that they were raced by Paul Newman was neither here nor there,” Carolla said.Still, Carolla thought that cars raced by Newman, then in his early 80s, might increase in value after the actor died, making them a sensible investment.So he invested more. My dad didn’t like racing. Adam Carolla is a fan of Datsun race cars such as this Datsun 260Z Camel GT pace car used in the 1970s. Elon Musk renews the threat to leave California he first made during a fight over the reopening of Tesla’s Fremont plant during the coronavirus lockdown.Henrik Fisker is raising $2.9 billion to build and market the Fisker Ocean all-electric compact SUVTesla’s $104 million second quarter profit came from the selling of pollution credits, not cars.After Tesla posted a profit for its fourth consecutive sector, the path is now open for the electric car-maker to join the ranks of the blue-chip S&P 500 Index. Paul Newman memorabilia adorns Adam Carolla’s garage.Paul Newman’s Porsche 935 won the 1979 24 Hours of LeMans in its class and second place overall. Charles Fleming writes about automobiles and motorcycles for the Los Angeles Times’ Business section.


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