"Tonight, o n "Jay Leno's Garage"..." "Come on!" "We search for the key s to happiness." "To find it, we loo k at station wagons," "This is so stupid." "Over the edge of cliffs..." "This is the bad one there." "Ooh, there you go." "And closer to home." "I met my wife in this car." "I dated in this car." "I got married in this car." "I find out what make s actor Dax Shepard so happy abou t this Buick Roadmaster." "We have made love in the back of this car, Jay." " Anything could happen." " That's right." "I get to mee t the long, lost love of pizza tycoon, Papa John." "800 horsepower?" "This is the world's fastest pizza delivery vehicle." "I get my blood pumping wit h skater turned rally car driver," "Bucky Lasek who needs at least two extreme sport s to get his fix." "I'm just an adrenaline junkie." "And I learn ho w to manage road rage from a real Indian guru." "You are actually a born yogi." "I am a born yogi." "It'll be joyful..." "When I make othe r people's lives better, they make my life better, and that makes me happy." "Ecstatic..." "It's the throbbing of my heart to the beat of the wind." "Crack a smile." "How's it looking?" "Um, not good." "And join me a s I search high, low, and in betwee n the couch cushions for the keys to happiness." "Well, if you've watched this program before, you've seen this car." "This is my 1955 Buick Roadmaster." "I've had this car for over 40 years, and although there are more valuable cars here in the shop, certainly, there aren't as many that have as much meaning as this one because this is the first vehicle I bought" "when I came to Los Angeles." "Met my wife in this car." "I dated in this car." "I got married in this car." "Drove this car to m y "Tonight Show" audition." "Drove this car when I go t the "Tonight Show."" "Drove this car when I lef t the "Tonight Show."" "I even did a music video in It for Michael Nesmith o f The Monkeys." "This is when they built cars out of steel." "You hit your head on the dash, they hose it off and sell it to somebody else." "So, see, there are some real keys to happiness in this old Buick." "I've got a friend of mine who has a connection with Roadmasters much like mine." "Here he comes now." "Hey, Jay." "Dax Shepard, how you doing, my friend?" "What are you up to here?" "Well, I'm doing something they do in a lot of car shows." "I'm standing with a tool and a rag so it looks like" "I'm actually working on the car, but really, I'm just waiting for you to come in on cue." " Fantastic." " Yeah, yeah." " You look great at it." " Well, thank you." "Dax Shepard is an actor, writer, and director." "He shot to fam e on NBC's hit show, "Parenthood."" "Most recently, he wrote, directed, and starre d in the remake of "Chips."" "He's also a real gearhead." "You might be familia r with his talented wife, the one and only Kristen Bell." "Based the bell tatto o on his hand," "I'm gonna say he take s this whole marriage thing pretty seriously." "Well, this is my Roadmaster, which..." " I'm familiar with this." " Yeah." "I've long loved this car, and," "I got to say that you got a lot of power." "You know my connection to my Roadmaster, but what is your connection?" "So I worked for General Motors for 14 years." "That's what my family did, right?" " Okay." " We delivered press vehicles around the city in Detroit, so we managed a fleet of about 250 cars." " Wow." " Well, when I was 18yearsold, we could pick any car we wanted to from the shop to go run chase with." "So we'd to drop off a new Corvette, and then we had to come back to the shop, there'd be two guys, and these were inordinately fast." "We all would fight over these cars because there's nothing funnier to an 18yearold than getting sideways in a big, huge station wagon." "So when my wife got pregnant four years ago, immediately I was like," ""I have to get a Bbody station wagon" ""between '94 and '96" ""because if I'm gonna be a dad, I don't want to be in a minivan." "I want to be in something I can drift."" "All right, well, I would have thought you would have needed this to get her pregnant." "We have made love in the back of this car," "Jay, between you and I." "Not between... wait, not between you and I. Let's clear that up." "Yet, yet." " Yet." " Yet." "But again, the Roadmaster- anything could happen." "That's right." "Sky's the limit in a Roadmaster." "Well, this is a '94 Buick Roadmaster." "It was just about the end of the run, isn't it?" "When did Roadmaster finally..." " '96." " '96." "'94 through '96 got the LT1 engine, which was the detuned 'Vette engine that came out in '92." " Sure, sure." " They also had positraction rear ends, stainless steel dual exhausts." "They're just a hot rod station wagon." "And, again, drifting across four lanes of traffic sideways is a unique joy." "In the 1990s, Buick returned to its histori c Roadmaster brand with the Roadmaster Estate." "I love that name." "It came standar d with a 5.7liter engine, and it's rated to tow u p to 5,000 pounds." "Now, yours is not stock, is it?" "This is not stock." "We put big six piston calipers and huge rotors on it, which then caused me to have to get bigger wheels." " Right." " And then I thought," ""It needs more power."" "And so just this month, this got a motor swap." "Dax has replace d his Roadmaster stock V8 with a 6.2 liter supercharge d Chevrolet Performance LSA engine, capable of over 550 horsepower." "If that's no t a challenge to race," "I don't know what is." "Did you swap this engine in with the idea of racing me?" "When I found out I was gonna be on your program..." "Right, so you quickly did an engine swap." "I did put the gas on the install." "Can we go for a ride?" "I would love to give you a ride." "I want to see what I'm up against." "I like how the hood drops off." "I mean, it looks like a small car when you're inside here." "It's a little bit dainty, isn't it?" "All right, here's a dumb question." "Yeah." "I mean, you put a big motor in it." "It's a hot rod." "It's fun." "Have you ever used this car for its intended purpose, loaded up with groceries and camping gear and take the family on a vacation?" "Have you done that with it?" "Yes." "When my first daughter was a year old, we drove from L.A. to Oregon, and we had two dogs in the car, a baby, we had the gigantic cargo container on the luggage rack." "It was definitely my Clark Griswold fantasies come true." "Yeah." "Now, you came to "Tonight Show"" "years ago with the Lincoln." "I love that car." "To me, that car is wha t your Roadmaster is." "Like, I went to college and graduated, we got into show business, and I met my wife and had kids, like, you know?" "The moment... the highlight for me in this "Chips" experience was they put a huge billboard on Sunset, and I parked the Lincoln in front of the billboard, and it was emotional for me because I moved to L.A." "in that car, and I cruised Sunset, and it all seemed so unobtainable." "And the notion that I had a billboard there on Sunset for a movie I wrote and directed was very amazing, and to be in the same car was really amazing." "So shall we feel what the 6.2 liter does?" "See what it does, yeah." "A lot of pull, ?" "It certainly does, yeah." "But, you know, this is not really fair because before you come over to race me you're dropping a supercharged Corvette engine." "You know, my car's had the same tires on for the last 20 years." "Okay, but to act as if your car is some stock, saddle, '55 Buick is a little bit of an overstatement." "Well, it's very close, it's very close." "You have the best big block Creighton motor made..." "Well..." "With amazing suspension." "What gearbox?" "Has it got a 400 in it?" " Yeah, yeah." " Yeah?" "So you got everything." "All you don't have is tires." "Let's go to the drag strip." "Let's settle this once and for all." "There's only one way to sort this out." "The numbers won't lie, the numbers won't lie." "All right, time to settl e the big Roadmaster beef." "Best of three run s on an eighth mile drag." "May the best Buick win." "And by that, of course, I mean mine." "Leno, you may have been the king of late night, but I'm the king of blacktop!" "Old age and treachery beats youth and enthusiasm every day." "Don't get distracted by my taillights." "They're a little bright." "Yeah, yeah." "In race one, Dax does the trac k in a strong 8.8 seconds." "Meanwhile, I'm disqualifie d for crossing the yellow line." "I told you these tires are old." "I can't get any traction." "These tires..." "I saw that." "I looked in my rearview mirror and I saw your bumper." "Yeah, yeah, I know." "I know." "Hey, when you do your rollover, are you gonna go left or right?" "I'm gonna roll right over you, actually." "Come on!" "Close race." "Dax stops the clock at 9.56, but I topped him at a 9.52, and with that, we're tied." "One more French fry for lunch, and I could have lost that one." " That was good." " One to one." "Yeah." "Tiebreaker." "Coming up, Dax and I battle for the title of Road Master." "Dax and I are tied one to one in our histori c Roadmaster showdown." "What I lack in horsepower" "I make up with with razor quick reflexes." "Yeah, yeah, tell me about it." "Time to pull out al I the stops, whatever that means." "Come on!" "Dax improves from round two, but I take the race and the day." "The keys to happines s can be many things..." "I got you that time." "But right now, it's crushing a friend and pummeling him into dust." " Well." " Yeah." "I had a great run." "You had two great runs." "Yeah, yeah, it was a lot of fun, and it..." "It's a great day for Roadmasters." "That's right." "I think we proved that, you know, you got your Italian exotics and your Corvettes, your Mustangs." " Who needs that?" " That's right." " My God." " What's the matter?" "I left the baby in the car." "My wife's gonna kill me." "Man." "Let's get out of here." "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah." "It's okay, honey." "We're going home." "She had a helmet on though." "Don't worry." " She had a helmet." " She had a helmet." "You know, sometime s in the pursuit of happiness, it's nice to just get outside, commune with nature, and open that throttle!" "Rally racing is a high octane, pointtopoint competition held on virtuall y every kind of road surface and in every kin d of weather condition." "Because each cours e is totally different, drivers are paire d with a codriver to help guide the m through the turns and the hazards of the race." "My next guest joined the Subar u Puma Rallycross Team in 2012, and althoug h he's a fresh face in Rally, he's a vetera n of extreme sports." "So, Bucky, obviously, you've been a competition guy your whole life." "Did it start with skateboards?" "Yeah." "I got into skateboarding." "I did it for a few years." "I got pretty good at it, and then I needed something to get my mind off of it, and it just kind of escalated from there." "In addition to Rally, Bucky Lasek has been a professional skateboarde r for almost three decades with a long list of first plac e competition wins, including the Dew Action Sports, the Vans Triple Crown, and ten gold medal s at the XGames." "Pretty good!" "But it's all jus t part of a day's work for this lifelong thrill seeker." "Now, you have three girls, a couple of teenagers, what do they say when their dad competes against their teenage friends in skateboarding?" "I mean..." "Yeah, my daughter goes to school with one of the guys" "I compete against, Tom Schaar." "So it's like, she's, you know, she's friends with him and, of course, she doesn't want me to lose to him, and neither do I, but, you know, sometimes it happens." "Right, yeah." "But your skateboarding is hugely successful, right?" "It's still pumping and thriving, but with age comes the cage." "With age comes the cage." "That's interesting." "I hadn't heard that one, but that makes sense, that makes sense." "Yeah." "So I'm still the adrenaline junkie that I used to be, but now I've kind of honed my skills more into this type of four wheel." "And the name of this episode is "Keys to Happiness."" "This would be your key to happiness." "Going fast." "Competing." "Right?" "What I get the most joy out of is Rally, you know?" "Loose surface is definitely the most fun." "Yeah, okay." "Like, I've done tarmac driving and all of that, but loose surface is where it's at for me, and becoming one with my codriver, and attacking the challenges of the stages." "And what are we gonna do today?" "Today we're gonna take this STI out and predrive the course, and take notes of the turns, all the hazards, areas where you can go flat out, and gonna turn it over to you, and I'm gonna be your codriver." "All right." "I think you're gonna have a great time." "I know I'll have a great time." "I don't know about you, but I'll have a great time." "Yeah, I brought a change of pants." "Good, really?" "Good, that's more information than I need to know." "Today, Bucky and I will be driving the brand new 201 8 Subaru WRX STI, an allwheel drive, six speed manua I capable of 305 horsepower." "And it's als o got cool red seatbelts." "How often do you run the course on a race before you actually do the race?" " One time." " Just once?" " Yeah, one recce." " Now, what's a recce?" "You're not Australian." "It sounds like, "It's a recce."" "You know what, I don't even know what..." " Ha!" " Reconnaissance." "It's where you go out and you go over the course." "Okay." "So, Bucky, tell me what you've done here, okay?" "This is obviously just centered up to the dash, right?" "Right." "This is showing us the degree of turn that we're approaching." "Okay." "And we have a 6, we have a 5, we have a 4, and then, you know, we'll go 321 and so on." "A 6 would be barely anything in the wheel." "Right." "A 5 would be a much more degree, and 4 and so on." "I'm gonna put a mark down here." "This is where we hug each other." "Okay." "Okay, when we're going off the cliff." " That's A.D. Already dead." " Yeah." "Now, Bucky helped u s set up a half of a mile course, but before we go flat out, we got a little bi t of work to do." "Let's just take this first la p and get a feel for the car and what we're looking at." "Okay, all right." "Okay, so this is a left." "It looks like we're at a 4." "All right." "So what do you think this turn is right here that we're in now?" "That looks to be a 3." "Maybe if you're driving." "I've never had friends that I'm driving with give me homework before." "From this point, we're just gonna mark hazards." "Now, how many guy s go off the edge here?" "Does that happen quite common?" "It does happen." "We would call that a whoopsie." "A whoopsie." "So coming up here we hav e a turn that I would call slippy." "Now, are these words that you've come up with, or are these the words that everybody uses?" "No, these are what everybody uses." "Okay." "That is also kindergarten lingo." "Yes." "Whoopsie, slippy, you know," "I don't get all thi s Mr. Rogers jargon, but let's give this thing a try." "I see how you could get slippy on this course pretty easy." "I can see how dangerou s it could be unless you're really paying attention to what you're doing." "And that's wha t the codriver's here to do." "The codriver's here mainly to keep your focus moving forward." "You have a problem, say this turn right here." " Yeah." " You don't want to dwell on this problem becaus e you could have ten more comin g up at the next one, so you want to move past it." "Second lap." "Going hot." "I'll try not t o go off the road." "Slow it down for a right 3." "About 50 yards until a left 2." " Okay." " Slow it down." "No cut." "No cut on the... don't get close on the inside, okay." "Long right 5." "Looking good, looking good, Jay." "Look at these birds going crazy." "Don't pay attention to the birds, Jay." "Pay attention to the road." "What?" "What road?" "Left 2." "Looking good, looking good." "Bottom out into a sharp righ t hander where I'm gonna help you with the hand brake and we're gonna go turn." " I'll take the hand brake." " Okay, you got the hand brake?" " Yes." " Go into first, and then hand brake right here." "Go!" "Good work, good work." " I love the hand brake turns." " Slow down, slow down." "Nice, nice work." " There we go." " That was awesome." "That was a lot of fun." "Very cool." " I think you did quite well." " Thanks." "Now let's see how it's supposed to be done." "Yeah, I think that's a little faster than I was going." "I feel like I'm in a video game." "This is the bad one there." "Whoa, there you go." "Very good." "There you go." "You don't want to be the guy who buys this car next." "No." "We might have a flat." "We might have a flat." " You think you got a bad tire?" " Yeah." "Well, I'm glad it was on your watch and not mine." "I think it was kind of a slow leak from yours to begin with." "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah." "Blame it on the Hollywood pinhead." " I think I heard it." " Yeah, yeah." "Let's see what we got." "Yeah, front left." "A good hole in it." "Can we just call AAA?" "No AAA out here." "Well, come on, let's change the tire." " We got a spare?" " Yeah." "Okay, that's what you get for racing g on 19inch street tires." "And since I assume you don't want to watch me change a flat" " How's it looking?" " Not good." "Let me tell you this, we just changed the tire." " Well, this is Rally, Jay." " This is the keys to happiness." "It's Rally a lot of fun." "Coming up, I lear n how fanatical some people can get about findin g the keys to happiness with pizza czar, Papa John." "The bounty on the car by this time is $250,000." " Wow!" " I wanted the car back." "The car I'm driving right now?" "A 1951 Hudson Hornet 4door." "It has a 262cubic inc h 6cylinder engine with two onebarrel carburetors." "And the reason this car is in an episode called." ""Keys to Happiness,"" "is not necessarily the car itself, but the story behind the car." "In fact, the story is the reason I bought the car." "I heard from a woma n who was well into her 90s, and she called m e about this car." "And she said her and her husban d bought it new in '51 and they drove I t from New Jersey to California with their two young son s in the back." "He passed away in 1996." "It was the only ca r they ever had." "And she said, "Would you buy it?"" "Well, I already had a Hudson Hornet." "A 1953, the sport model." "Why would I need another Hudson Hornet?" "She said, "Would you at leas t come and look at it?"" "And I went out to her house, and the car was pretty worn out." "She said, "I just want I t to go to a good home."" "Would you buy it for $5,000?"" "I went,"." "Well, now I have to buy it."" "All right, so then I bought the car, and I brought it back to my garage." "And right away we tore into I t doing the paint and the chrome." "Engine was exhausted." "Had to do everything." "It took about two years, an d I was almost afraid to call her." "I said, "Well, let me see if she's still alive."" ""Hello?" She's alive." "I said, "Hi, this is Jay." "Remember with the... "." ""Yes." I said, "Well, it's all finished." "Do you want to go for a ride?"" "She goes, "Can my kids come along?"" "I said, "Well, sure." "How old are the kids?"" "She said, "72 and 74."" "And I went, "Yeah, bring the kids." "We'll put them in the back."" "So I go over to her house, and the kids bring her out to the car blindfolded, and she's touching it, and they take the blindfold off, and she sees how beautiful it looks, and she just breaks into tears." "And she's crying." "She's telling stories about the old days." "So we go for a ride, and she's telling stories." "Meanwhile, I loo k in the rearview mirror." "I see the 72yearold doing this..." "Poking the 74yearold." "Well, she turns around," ""I told you two stop touching each other!"" "And she's just whacking them in the head." "The three of the m are laughing so hard, they're having so much fun, and I said, "That's the keys to happiness."" "You know, it was worth the restoration and the whole deal just seeing that woman having the time of her lif e and laughing like a kid." "That makes it all worthwhile." "You know, sometimes the key to happiness is losing the keys to happiness." "That's what this story is about, about a man who had the keys to happiness, lost it, and got it back again." "Papa John Schnatter." "How you doing, buddy?" " Good, how you doing, man?" " Good to see you." "Thanks for having me." "John Schnatter, better known as Papa John because it's har d to pronounce his last name, is the founde r and CEO of the wildly popular." "Papa John's Pizza empire." "Papa John got his star t managing his father's tavern where he tore out a broom close t to make room for a pizza oven." "Papa John no w has over 5,000 stores and sells ove r 350 million pizzas each year." "This kind of tal k makes me hungry." "This is the car?" " This is my baby." " Wow." "Very nice." "John's '71 Camar o has a 416cubic inch engine with a Whipple supercharger, making it capable o f an impressive 800 horsepower." "There's your Whipple supercharger right there." " Yep." " Wow. 800 horsepower." "Well, I guess, if you're gonna deliver pizzas, you know, you want something that can get there quickly." "Yeah, this is the world's fastest pizza delivery vehicle." "Yeah, that's how you justify it to the wife." ""Honey, you know, the business is getting the pizza that you need something quick."" "And this is the original color when you had it." "Original color." "How old were you when you got this car?" "I was 15." "I bought it for 1,600 bucks." "You didn't have your licens e at 15, did you?" "Well, that's why the ca r was in Daddy's name." "What's more Kentucky than buying a car when you're 15 without a license?" "Yeah, that's got Kentucky written all over it." "Well, I think the thing that really makes this car endearing to people is the story about why you sold it." "So you had it in high school." "Had it in college." "And then your dad had a bar or a tavern, right?" " Right, Mick's Lounge." " And you worked there?" "50 cent beer joint." "Rough." "Yeah, okay." "Well, then what happened?" "Well, I'd love to tell you, Jay, but we got a delivery to get to." "Can I go with you?" "Yeah, you're going with me, come on." " Well, let's do it." " Let's get it on." "Pulls good!" "So your dad had Mick's Lounge, and it wasn't doing well?" "Wasn't doing well at all." "In October of '83 I had to sell the car to keep the thing going from bankrupt." "It was just a bad time." "Now, were you always a pizza guy, I mean, was that a food that you always thought you wanted to make, or did you do other things?" "When I was 15 I was washing dishes." "That's how I made the money to buy the car." "Right across from where you wash dishes is where Joe, John, and Frank Fongrizzi made pizzas." " Yeah." " And one night they had a write up in the "Saturday Scene"" "and blew the doors off the place, and I got promoted from washing dishes to making pizza, and I fell in love with it." "You sold this car." "When did you start pining for it?" "By '86." "I did have the bar up and going, and we were transitioning to the first Papa John's." "By '87 I decided to start looking for the car." "So for 22 years we looked fo r the car, and we'd run ads." "Just anything to find the car." "In 2009, we put out a net campaign where I crossed the country, looking for the car." "Well, the bounty on the car by this time is $250,000." " Wow." " Yeah." "I wanted the car back, and so, one fortunate day," "I was at a RedskinsRavens gam e up in Baltimore." "They let me come in and talk about the car on national TV for seven minutes, and sure enough, a kid from Flatwood, Kentucky sees it and says, "I got his car."" "And so he calls up an d we ran the traps on it, you know, the title." "Robert L. Schnatter, 1971 Z28." "Wow!" "Was that one of the most gratifying moments, finding the car again?" "My gosh, I mean, we were crying." "We were laughing." "I've been looking for it for 22 years, and it just had so much lineage to my family." "I mean, what a miracle." "We drove it to the office, and we drove it in the hu b where all the employees meet." "Jeff Robinson hands me the keys and I gave him the check for 250 and he's crying." "He did not want it gone." "If it was anybody but me, he would have not given this car up." "Yeah, but, you know, that 250 kind of quells those tears a little bit, yeah." "It didn't hurt." "Over the years, John has shared his good fortune with his employees, refusing personal raise s and each year shelling out" "30% of company profit s in employee bonuses." "Happiness is when you have meaningful work, and you have purposeful work..." "Right." "And you have mutual respect and kindness towards your fellow man." " Yeah." " You know, my job as CEO of Papa John's is to wake up every day and make other people's lives better, because when I make other people's lives better, they make my life better, and that makes me happy." "But it also makes them a little chubbier from eating pizza all day." "Most chubby people are happy." "How many people in this party?" "Hey!" "What's up?" "Papa John." "How you doing, man?" "Good to see you." " Good to see you, man." " Hey, Jay." " Hi." " Diet's doing great." "Yeah, yeah, here you go." "Thanks." " All right, Gabriel, enjoy." " See you later." " I'll see you guys." " One guy?" "One guy." "I wish every custome r was like that." " Every customer." " Yeah." "Coming up." "You guys know your dad's a real American hero, right?" "We give a soldie r and his family a cool surprise." "Come on!" "There's so much about a vehicle that can make you happy." "I'm just an adrenaline junkie." "Style..." "This is the car?" "This is my baby." "Its artful mechanics..." "You have the best big block Creighton motor made." "But honestly, the best thin g about a vehicle is this:" "It'll get you wher e you want to go." "And that may sound simple, but in some cases, it's not." "Sitting next to me, Colonel Oeschger, but you like Colonel O., is that correct?" "I do since it's a whacky Swiss name." "Colonel O. Does a wonderful thing." "He's involved with The Wounded Warriors Project." "Tell us about it." "My program takes care of 28,000 of the army's seriously wounded, ill, and injured soldiers and veterans, their families, and their caregivers." "Over the years, it's alway s been a great honor for me to meet our brav e American service members." "Each and every handshak e puts a smile on my face." "Thank you." "Thanks, guys." "The vehicle I'm drivin g right now, a 2017 Chrysler Pacifica Minivan that has been outfitte d by a company named BraunAbility, to make it completely handicapped access." "It's pretty cool." "Today we're going ove r to Burbank Airport to pick up a soldier and his family." "He thinks he's coming out here to tour the garage and maybe take his kids to Universal Studios." "What he doesn't know is we're gonna surprise him and give him this van as a small token of our appreciation and Chrysler's appreciation for his sacrifice." "Hi, guys." " Hi." " How are you?" "Gentlemen." " Hello." " Gentlemen, how are you?" "Is this your wife?" "Girlfriend?" "Hi, buddy." "You ready to go?" "Come on, let's do it." "Okay, it's time to carava n Specialist Andrade's family over to my garag e for our big surprise." "So the kids all excited about doping the Universal thing?" " Yes, they are very excited." " Yeah." "It's awesome." "Have they been to California before?" "They have not, no." "So tell us about your life." "You grew up in Texas, right?" " I grew up in Texas." " When did you first deploy?" "2003." "We had a ship security mission to Kuwait guarding our military vehicles, and then from there we went to Iraq." " So this all happened in Iraq." " Yes." "So how long were you ther e before you had your incident?" "I was 11 months in." "We were coming up to a ditch, and we had to come back into the road to funnel in." "So they said that there was a tree that was hollowed out." "A tree log." "So when everybody had filed in, that's when they detonated the IED." "Wow." "Yeah, one of my legs were blown off completely, my right side." "My left was barely attached, still." "Did you think you were gonna bleed to death at the time it happened?" "I did." "I was..." "I thought I was, but thankfully, one of the medics had come and, you know, did a tourniquet on my legs to stop the bleeding." " Okay." " Yeah, we were out there for a little while..." "A few minutes..." "Actually, I don't even remember how long it was until the helicopter, the evac, came." "But it's safe to say, it's safe to say that guy saved your life." "Yeah." "Yeah, definitely." "And how many guys were injured?" "Everybody from my squa d was injured." " Wow." " Yeah." " Did you lose anybody?" " I did." "My good friend, Adam, Adam Brewer." "Man, that's a terrible thing." "So tell me about the rehabilitation process." " How do you..." " Okay." "Dealing with and all that." "What's that like?" "I was in the process of doing prosthetics, but then depression had come in." " Yeah?" " Yeah." "That's a tough, that's a tough one to deal with." "So, for a while, I didn't..." "I wasn't getting into the prosthetics." "I was kind of just trying to push everybody away, basically." " Yeah." " Yeah, but, thankfully, my wife was strong for both of us and she, she, you know, pushed me to do what I had to do." "Yeah, she's the best thing to ever happen." "I'm gonna give Crai g and his family a tour of the garage befor e we spring our surprise on him." "Well, this is the shop." "This is where we build all the stuff." "You like this big tractor?" "This big enough for you, you think?" "This is 1906." "This is older than your dad." "Come on, I'll show you a car made from an Army tank." "How about that thing?" "That's awesome." "This is Arnold Schwarzenegger's favorite car." "He thinks this is like the "Terminator" car." "You might recognize this car?" "This is our 2017 Chrysler Pacifica." "You guys know your dad's a real American hero, right?" "Well, I want you to give these keys to your dad because this is for him." "The folks at Chrysler and Braun have outfitted this car for you so you can get in." "You can drive her yourself." "You can go wherever you want, and you can take the whole family with you." "And I want you to give these to your dad and say thank you, okay?" " Thanks, Daddy." " Okay, thank you." " Thank you." " Thank you." "We can't thank you enough." "To go anywhere with all the kids," "I have to borrow someone else's car so we don't have to borrow a car anymore." " Give me a hug, my friend." " Thank you." "Thank you, thank you." "You guys proud of your dad?" "You got a good role model right here." "Tada!" " My God." " Pretty cool?" "Thank you very much." "The car I'm driving right now, a 1972 Mercedes Benz 600." "Now, you're probably wondering why I'm dressed this way." "For a lot of people driving, especially driving in Los Angeles, it's a horrible, tedious, laborious experience." "It's bumper to bumper traffic." "The roads have pot holes." "People cut you off." "No wonder people get tense." "There's a gentleman here in Los Angeles that teaches yoga in your car." "It if stops peopl e from giving me the finger," "I'm all for it." "Excuse me, are you Yogi Nanda?" "This is me." "Well, hop in." "Do you like my outfit, by the way?" "A very famous Indian tailor made this for me." "It's actually a sherwani." "It's beautiful." " Well, thank you." " A lot of maharajas..." "Maharajas is the kings of India, used to wear this." "You fit in really well with it." "Thank you." "So how long have you been in America?" "I came here in 1998." "Okay." "So did you ever fall victim to "Los Angeles,"" "the stress, do you know what I mean?" "Absolutely." "I was gulping down big bottles of soda." "I was working 17 hour days, not sleeping enough." "I was on my phone from morning till evening." "There's so much stress living in Los Angeles." "See, I was never a stressful person." "Like my wife and I, we never fight." "We never argue." "So that means you're a born yogi." "I am a born... wow, I'm a yogi!" "Now, it sort of makes me laugh that you teach people to do yoga in cars." "Most of the people I've seen are doing their makeup in their cars, they are shaving in their cars, and they're eating hamburgers in their cars, and I decided why not do yoga in the car as well?" "So how do we do yoga in a car?" "You do belly breathing." "Some people in America call it breath of fire." "You can use it to calm yourself down." "You're taking your stomach, and you're literally throwing the air out, and here's how you do it." "Okay." "That's very stressful." "Whenever somebody doe s something insane and you really start to get a negative emotion, laugh it out." "Ha ha ha ha ha." " All right, let's try it." " Ha ha ha ha ha." " Okay." " Come on." "Hey, you jerk!" "You stupid..." "You did amazing job." "Very good, very good, very good." "But see, that..." "It's very easy to say that when somebody throws a brick at your car." "Ha ha ha ha!" "It's very funny." "At the end of the day, life is just a journey." "It's like a car ride." "That's my philosophy." "Where I'm going is not nearly as important." "It's what I'm driving to get there, that's the key." "I'm a born yogi!" "Hey, you stupid" "Buckle up, folks." "It's time to Assess  Caress with Donald Osborne." "If you love classic cars." "Then Donald loves you." "So we're here once again with our appraiser, Donald Osborne, and the name of this episode is "Keys to Happiness."" "We have three unique automobiles." "Although valuable, it's more the story, and we'll tell you why each one of these cars is the keys to happiness to somebody special." "Donald, tell us what we have here." "Well, Jay, today, we've got a 1967 Mercedes Benz 230SL, a 1959 AustinHealey 106, and a 1971 Mustang Mach 1." "Okay, where do you want to start?" "Let's start with the Mercedes, nicknamed the Pagoda for the shape of the hardtop." "This is a really timeless shape for aerodynamics." "The center section of the hardtop is lower than actually the sides of the hardtop, so it gives I t the shape of a pagoda, so hence the pagoda name." "Right." "Now, the owner of this car," "Mary, is a Canadian born in Calgary." "Her husband promised her, "If we go to L.A.,"" "where she didn't want to come," ""I will get you your dream convertible."" "So they arrive in L.A." "and they bought her a Miata, which she hated." "Yeah." "So she thought her L.A. dream car, she'd never get." "A couple of kids later, for her 40th birthday, her husband surprised her with this 230 SL." "So she finally gets he r California dream car." "Let's talk about the Mustang." " Okay." " 1971 Mach 1." "It's got the 351 optional engine, 4barrel carburetor, sports seats." "Here the story is one of great friendship." "This car is owned by a fellow named Andy, and he grew up with one of his best friends named Al." " All right." " So Andy and his friend Al decided, "Hey, let's go and buy a brandnew Fords," in 1971." "So they went to the dealership together." "Andy ordered a candy apple red Ford LTD convertible, and Al ordered this Mach 1." "Okay." "Al kept the car for 39 years, and then he decided," ""I'm not driving this car anymore."" "He was still in touch with his friend, Andy, and Andy bought the car from him, and here it sits today, two owners from new." "Wow." "This is a car that's always been loved." "It's always been appreciated." "Very nice." "Now this one here is an AustinHealey, and I looked at it and I thought," ""This is actually better looking than any factory AustinHealey I've ever seen,"" "because a lot of times people would customize the Healeys and they just looked weird, you know?" "Like when you see those German Shepherds and they." "There's just something wrong with them, you know." "They just... okay..." "Okay, there's something wrong with this dog." "There's nothing wrong with this." "Absolutely, Jay." "This is a 1959 AustinHealey 106, but it's completely unique." "There's not another one like this on the planet." "It was modified by its second owner, a fellow named Zuki, who not only designed the car, but actually executed the changes of the car." " Right." " So, you see, he reshaped the fenders, cut down the windshield, shaped this new nose, which is very Italian." "Yeah, it looks almost Maserati or Ferrari." "Exactly, like a Maserati 300S or a Ferrari Testarossa race car." "Well, this car was shown by Zuki at Pebble Beach in 1970." "Wow." "And it won lots of show awards, and he was so proud of the work that he did that he actually put his own emblem on it, crafted by Zuki." "The current owner, Garth, his dad bought this ca r in the mid '70s." "Garth was a young boy." "He was probably six years old at the time, and he said, "Wow, this is a car."" "And he was fairly heartbroken when his dad sold it after about a year and a half." " Yeah." " But this car stayed imprinted in his mind so deeply, that he went looking for the car in the 1980s." "And he got a lead on it." "So he went out hunting and practically knocked on every door he could find in this one area, found the car, found the owner." "Wow." "And it was the fellow who had bought it from his dad, and so he was able to do a deal and bring the car back home, and it's just been a thrill for him ever since." "Wow." "So when Garth's an old man, that guy's kid will come to Garth and go, "My father... your car..."" "Exactly." "He wants his car back." " So this will go on and on." " Precisely." "Well, those are three great stories, but now we have to ask the question, how much does a great story add to the value of a car?" "This and more after a brie f message from our sponsors." "Right now, American Motor s will give you a free sunroof when you buy a specially equipped." "Gremlin, Hornet, or Sportabout." "Hey, you got a sunroof too." "How do you like it?" "Like it?" "The sun shining in the morning." "The moon beaming at night." "It's the throbbing of my heart to the beat of the wind." "It's me and Carol driving off into the sunset!" "It's life and happiness." "And it's free." "That answer your question?" "And we're bac k with Donald Osborne." "Now we have to ask which story has the most value." "My guess, what would appeal to me, as much as I would like to own a 230 SL, it would have to be this one because this is one where it seems like provenance would play a key role." "It's incredibly well done." "Using my heart more than my mind," "I would go for this one." "That one might pull it because people with money want 230 sis." "Okay, let's see how these cars in general did, and then specifically talk about what effect the stories of these cars might have on value." "Today, the '71 Mach 1 probably would b e somewhere around $28,000." "However, this particular car, because of it s ownership history, being in the hands of the original owner for 39 years, now being in the hands of the second owner, would actually probably hav e a value closer to $42,000." "Going now to the AustinHealey." "About $37,500 would get yo u a car like this today, but this car has a compelling story." "It's wonderfully presented." "And this particular ca r would certainly not go fo r less than about $49,000." "The Mercedes." "These are cars that are always in demand." "Some of them have become incredibly valuable." "This car today?" " $100,000?" " $57,000." "." " A 230 SL, remember." "If this were a 280 SL, it would be a $100,000 car."