Jay Leno drives a lost and found 1969 Camaro Z/28

There should be an asterisk To follow what is “destined” is pronounced “ultimately”. Some people find someone else they are meant to be with after years of failed relationships, bad dates, and periods of loneliness. Others don’t discover what career they should pursue until they go back to college after a few bad jobs.

Glenn Stearns founded mortgage lending company Stearns Lending LLC and was the star of the first season of Discovery Channel’s “Undercover Billionaires.” But when he was a teenager, he was just a boy who needed a car. His father told him he knew one that could do the job, but it would require some engine work. The two eventually put a 1969 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 RS back on the road. Maybe they did too good a job with the 302 under the hood, since Stearns got a lot of tickets on his high school car. He was already the father of a young child and had lost his driver’s license in Maryland for all his V8-powered antics, so his girlfriend at the time (early 1980s) convinced him to sell the Camaro.

It didn’t take long for Stearns to realize what he was giving up. But he would have to wait decades to get it back. Stearns began searching for the man who escaped in 1984. Fast forward to 2019. His friend John Elway (yes, That John Elway will be the celebrity auctioneer of one of his own cars at the Barrett-Jackson auction and has invited Stearns along. They walked into a tent to check out Herway’s car before it drove across the block, and lo and behold, next to it was Stearns’ long-lost Camaro, which had been restored and restored by Camaro expert Jerry McNish. Certification. Stearns bought back the 290-horsepower classic car at a hefty interest rate. He sold his Z/28 in the 1980s for $2,500 and bought it again for 60 times that amount.

Sitting next to Leno, listening to the 302’s throaty mechanical roar and shifting gears through the four-speed manual transmission, Stearns said, “I’ve been looking for it for so long, and to finally get it back is a dream come true.” We What can be said? That’s how it is. “