We can’t help but enjoy the work that Jay Leno puts into the collector car hobby. He goes after the strange, the historically significant, the near-impossible restorations, and he documents the progress. He is the anti-car show car show guy. He can have fun and goof off, but when it comes to his YouTube channel, he’s about the car itself and what makes it tick. No BS, no timetable, none of the crap that annoys the hell out of us. And what’s cool is that he doesn’t stick to the finished projects. You aren’t seeing just the parade of pretty machines…every now and then we get a look inside the deeper parts of the garage, where projects are being built, like a late 1950s Dodge Coronet D-500 that his paint guy is putting together as a personal deal, or the Ford Lotus Cortina whose engine is sitting in the dyno cell. From a Stanley Steamer with a nuke’d boiler to a classic Porsche 911 that’s in the middle of a restoration to an Imperial drop-top that is being stripped down for a full-on restoration, Leno stays busy. But it’s that work ethic that has brought him fame, fortune, and the ability to play with toys like the monster Fiat that had to get a brake upgrade just so that the chances of death were reduced to a much more acceptable level…like maybe 50%. Take a look at this month’s projects with the man himself below: