I watched that on live TV today. I don’t remember the name of the charity that will receive the proceeds but as I understood it, the charity builds $6 mil mansions for severely wounded vets. The crowd seemed to wonder, as I did - what is a severely wounded vet going to do with a $6 mil mansion? Jay Leno was pimping Dubya’s truck and kept berating the crowd, especially when the bidding stalled at $200K, for not being up to standards of the Pebble Beach crowd that bid $600K for a Corvette that some VIP autographed. The crowd was grumbling and at one point I thought I heard booing. It was a totally awkward and goofy situation; that’s when Rick Hendrick stepped up and bid $300K and Leno scurried away out of sight.
Why didn’t Leno cough up the dough? Was he all tapped out after buying the Batmobile?