[speeder]

Leno has one and it's a "10", of course. One night about 12 years ago, I was sitting in my well-beaten Alfa Spider outside of a Pizza joint in Beverly Hills and he pulled into the space next to me. The beauty and the sound of the thing was like driving around a Miro painting or something. It was 20 mule-team Borax.

He looked over and recognised me, (we used to be neighbors and he's a very friendly guy), and said something like, "we Italian car guys need to stick together". He then showed me the car and we sat and shot the bull, (yes, intended), about cars and his show. He was on his way home from work and just had to have some Mulberry St. pizza, me too. He told me to drive fast home and watch his show because Sean Penn was the guest and it was really good. I did.

That was a sweet summer night.