a brand new season Jalen’s barrage is coming your way and here’s a sneak peek just for you go in some of the most important people in the world catch car fever no one is immune and that’s definitely the case with our own vice president I’m here at a Secret Service training facility outside Washington DC to learn about the only vehicle he ever loved hey Jay how are you how are you mr.
vice president joe biden is a two-term vice president of the united states and served 36 years as a u.s. senator he’s all had loved cars but vice president not allowed to drive during their term and for at least six months after that I owe you big you realize he’s only the third time I getting to drive this that’s seven years that right on T that’s right third time yeah you got you gotta use him that’s the wall I know that the Secret Service doesn’t love me and you’re the original owner of this
car right now in August 1967 Wow so glad the Secret Service is making an exception today and granting the vice president permission to drive a car it’s practically part of his family in fact it is part of his family so tell us a story of what made you buy a Corvette I was getting married in August of 67 my dad didn’t have a lot of money but he ran the largest Chevrolet dealership in the state for years so he said to my then soon-to-be wife nearly he said why don’t you give me her car it was a 65
tempest in mind a 63 Chevy and I’ll fix them up for you for wedding so four days later we go by to pick the car up there’s 75 people outside the dealership we pull up they spread my dad says this my wedding gift Wow this is not your average wedding gift this is a 1967 Corvette Stingray 4-speed with a 327 v8 engine at 300 horsepower all I got was a stupid gravy boat so what were you more excited about the wedding night or the Corvette be honest the wedding knows okay ready have you kept it in this condition well
no my two sons Bo’s passed away my son Hunter they decided as a Christmas gift to have the engine rebuilt for me Wow well that being the case can we take it for a ride come on let’s do it I’d like to do that sounds good try your brakes they’re good I’ve been a lot of Corvettes in my life but had never been in a vice president’s Corvette and you can tell this one has been lovingly maintained how does it feel to get behind the wheel of this ever feels great yeah yeah it feels great yeah I’ve always loved to drive
III should just say it on time I I like speed yeah yeah other one people like it sell say I shouldn’t say this but I think you know it’s gonna be good so you like speed know what I do I mean I buried this this is you know when I was younger I had this 260 up but and I was told it’s actually only 150 – at the time only hundred fifty to go back to the manufacturers right so was your dad a car guy he liked him all right was great having a dad at a dealership because every prom man yeah yeah you had a brand-new car but I
remember my senior prom Chrysler 300d what year Chrysler 300d it was uh 61 that’s what I have I have a 61 oh you’re kidding me hundred gee Briana so yeah I’ve horsepower to four bell quick marriage still today yeah yeah yeah did you go to drive-in movies and car than your kid I did but not off first car you had a romantic encounter it you know unlike a date nothing day well 1951 flemeth convertible it wasn’t like it is a day when the first pay you made out in the car you parked that was the first time
the girls I dated for those Catholic school girls a mother would let me go yeah yeah that’s right oh it’s that Jill Biden boy you know what I want to know it’s great driving this thing it runs fantasti learn to drive it we get back you know take it no I might not come back then you have to send Secret Service out look at me I love this car this is what I like one owner original car interesting provenance got a great story under that cowboy is good-looking car the only bad thing about driving an older Corvette there’s always some
show-off and a new Corvette trying to pull all your doors on but the question is can he drive he’s got better brakes I don’t get better got better everything I do the girl is where were you I kept looking in the mirror I didn’t want to do the hell that cowboy was in front of it show up Jay Leno’s Garage season premiere November 9 CNBC get yours
