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" Way, way before Local Motors made desert-racing sports cars cool, James Garner was blasting through deserts in this wild freak machine: The Banshee, a V8-powered beast wearing &amp;#039;72 Oldsmobile Cutlass bodywork. Yes, like Steve McQueen and Paul Newman, Garner wasn&amp;#039;t just a Hollywood stud. He was a true gearhead, with gasoline in his veins and a taste for speed. And when he wasn&amp;#039;t ripping off Firebird\u00A0J-turns in The Rockford Files, he was racing , both on and off road. The star passed away in the summer of 2014, but his motorsports legacy lives on. And Hollywood&amp;#039;s number-one car dude Jay Leno got the chance to slide behind the wheel of Garner&amp;#039;s insane Banshee for Jay Leno&amp;#039;s Garage.\u00A0 Owned by Jon Swift, the car has a fascinating history all its own, as explained to Jay by automotive journalist and historian Matt Stone. And it still runs. Hard. This is the most fun Jay&amp;#039;s ever had behind the wheel on Jay Leno&amp;#039;s Garage. And he&amp;#039;s driven plenty of cool cars.\u00A0 Watch all the way to the end, where Jay takes this totally-not-street-legal beast to the California streets before blasting off into its natural element: Dirt. This is the best thing you&amp;#039;ll see all day.      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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