Jay Leno hops into a 1930 Duesenberg to help sell almost $400M in bonds to pay for Burbank airport terminal project

How would you picture Jay Leno? Your archetypal instinct mightiness beryllium to telephone him a comedian, particularly owed to his clip hosting NBC's "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno." But for galore of us, "car enthusiast" is apt besides connected the database of presumption we'd usage to picture the celebrity.

Leno has a YouTube channel, Jay Leno's Garage (1), with video topics ranging from classical cars to automotive repair projects. He's launched his ain enactment of conveyance attraction products (2). He adjacent has a celebrated postulation of astatine slightest 181 cars and 160 motorcycles successful his "Big Dog Garage," located successful Burbank, California.

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So it makes consciousness that Leno was selected to correspond the Hollywood Burbank Airport successful a caller video astir financing its terminal relocation project. And that his emotion of cars was worked into the video.

In the selling video, Leno sits astatine the instrumentality of a 1930 Duesenberg astatine the terminal's operation tract to pass the nationalist astir the project's advancement and merchantability airdrome gross bonds to assistance money the terminal's completion.

The Hollywood Burbank Airport is astir 33 miles from the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and adjacent to galore employees of large networks and studios, specified arsenic NBCUniversal, Netflix, Nickelodeon, and The Walt Disney Company, says Bloomberg (3).

In the video, Leno describes Burbank arsenic "an oasis" successful Los Angeles, calling LA a "crazy metropolis with homelessness and transgression and taxes."

The airdrome is relocating and renovating this terminal to conscionable present-day Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) information standards. It volition beryllium 355,000 quadrate feet, person 14 gates, and see up to 6,637 parking spaces (4).

Los Angeles officials expect a batch of travelers to usage the terminal successful the adjacent fewer years – the metropolis volition big the Super Bowl successful 2027 (5) and the Summer Olympics and Paralympics successful 2028 (6). The caller terminal is expected to beryllium acceptable this October.

The task is expected to outgo implicit $1.3 cardinal (7). According to the City of Burbank authorities website, "The concern required to wage for the caller terminal volition beryllium paid for by the FAA, the airlines and airdrome users (8)."