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Jerry O'Connell's Craigslist Cadillac gets a garage lesson from Jay Leno

A daily-driver Seville joins three very different Model A cars in the channel's two-upload week.

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Jerry O’Connell Paid $12K for This 1979 Cadillac Seville on Craigslist | Jay Leno's Garage

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1:33O'Connell buys his classic cars on Craigslist, keeping his search close to home.
10:55Opening the hood reveals a dusty engine bay, followed by a look at a wire-patched coolant tank.
15:47Leno demonstrates dropping the hood shut rather than pressing it down.
18:30O'Connell says he negotiated the Seville's price from $16,000 to $12,000.
34:10Leno recommends considering a transmission-fluid flush before agreeing to a complete transmission replacement.
41:00The conversation turns to California smog exemptions and the difficulties of registering older classics.

Jerry O'Connell has been closing his Cadillac's hood wrong. Jay Leno demonstrates the drop-and-close technique, one of several practical lessons tucked into a garage visit that is as much about enjoying an old car as understanding it.

The actor's 1979 Seville cost him $12,000 on Craigslist, where he searches within driving distance of home for cars from his childhood and early adulthood. His wife, Rebecca Romijn, has a theory: he buys the cars rich people owned when he was young. O'Connell traces his Cadillac affection to his father's DeVille, while Leno finds plenty to inspect, including a dusty engine compartment and a coolant tank patched with wire.

The episode has drawn roughly 567,000 views, comfortably the most-watched of the week's two uploads and the channel's strongest daily draw right now. Viewers keep returning to O'Connell's willingness to ask questions rather than pretend mechanical expertise, his habit of calling the host "Mr. Leno," and the Seville's appeal as a comfortable everyday car.

Donald Osborne supplies a more scholarly counterpoint in "The Models A | Assess and Caress with Donald Osborne | Jay Leno's Garage." Cars borrowed from the Audrain Automobile Museum show how Ford, Duesenberg and Pierce-Arrow used the same letter for very different machines: reinvention at Ford, a straight-eight road car at Duesenberg, and top-of-the-range status at Pierce-Arrow.

Subscribers held steady, while daily viewing is running below its usual level. Among similarly sized motoring channels, Forrest's Auto Reviews had a particularly busy week; TheStradman is enjoying a strong daily upswing. Back in Leno's garage, Travis Barker's modern-powered Impala remains an active archive draw, alongside O'Connell's rather less modified approach to classic-car ownership.

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I liked the fact he really didn't know much at all about cars and didn't try to lie about it. He looked to Jay for answers. I also liked how he called Jay, Mr. Leno.
@randyprice1831See it on YouTube
The Seville is so elegant and still looks perfectly in style 47 years later.
@Splitfin99See it on YouTube
This car looks so comfortable. I want to see what else Jerry has in his garage. Please Jay bring him back.
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One of my favorite episodes. These two guys together are a riot.
@SierraJohnSee it on YouTube
Jerry is such a normal, non pretentious, non hollywood type. I watched his show "my secret Identity" as a kid. Awesome dude keep being you Jerry!
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