FORMER TONIGHT SHOW HOST LENO ABANDONS HUNDREDS OF CARS IN NBC LOT

The parking lot at NBC’s Burbank Studios is stuffed with cars.  But they all belong to one person–former Tonight Show host Jay Leno.  And NBC would like him to come and pick them up.  “He just left them.  And, of course, there aren’t any Cobras or Ferrari’s–it’s all just junk,” complained Darwood Sickles, the NBC executive in charge of the Burbank studios.

Employees inventory vehicles abandoned by comedian Jay Leno after he left the Tonight Show

According to registration records, Leno owns approximately 51-million vehicles, or about 20% of all cars, trucks and SUVs in the US.   That’s more vehicles than the fleets of Hertz, FedEx, UPS, and the U.S. Postal Service combined.  

Sickles said Leno would frequently drive one vehicle to work and leave it there, never to use it again. 

“He left about 50 old Buick Riattas, a Mitsubishi Starion with no engine or interior, and, for some reason, about 200 beat-up Olds Achievas,” Sickles said while walking through the lot.  “We’re taking an inventory now and getting ready to call in the tow trucks.  It pisses me off.”

According to Sickles, the only vehicle abandoned by Leno that might be of any value is the world’s only steam-powered Volvo PV544.  “We might get a grand for it if we can find some museum that wants a steam-engined Volvo.”