Nothing beats a beautiful host, truck and boat all in one picture! This weekend Courtney has a 1955 Chevy 3100 and matching 1959 Tomahawk Ski Mate in her shop. Both are painted in Viper Red. Owner Mickey Collier found the truck three years ago, just blocks away from where he grew up. He turned to Joe Towe of Classic Cars in Hendersonville, TN where the truck was media blasted and was in far worse condition than they originally thought. They did a frame off resto and it now sits on an ’84 Chevy frame. He dropped in a 350 crate motor and a 350 transmission. The Tomahawk boat was in equally bad shape. Mickey spent 4 months restoring the fiberglass boat back to ship shape condition. It has a 40 horsepower, ’59 Johnson Super Seahorse motor and a steering wheel from a ’59 Impala! Check it all out on The PowerBlock October 3rd & 4th.

Off road racers Jennifer Clemison and Heather Birdwell join Courtney along with their Class 1 desert racer! They’re part of an all women’s field racing to beat breast cancer. It’s the 4th Annual Royal Purple Powder Puff Race for the Cure. The race is in Barstow, CA on October 10th. Royal Purple’s - RoyalPurple.com has doubled last year’s donation to $40,000! Last year over 165 women competed raising $119,000 for Cedar Sinai’s Breast Cancer Research Center. It’s a 20 mile loop race with two heats. You’ll have a great chance to meet the ladies and their desert racing machines close up.
See the race video on The PowerBlock September 26th & 27th.  Check out Powderpuffrace.org to find out how you can help join the battle!

It’s a jam packed PowerBlock this weekend with visits from Electronic Arts (EA Games) and Sucker Punch Sallys. Christian Clayton started a small boutique motorcycle company in Scottsdale, Arizona in 2002. Three Bike of the Year Awards later and they’re huge! Last year they built 200 custom motorcycles that have an old school, basic - no nonsense style. The blue and white Bobber they built for Progressive Insurance is currently on tour and you can enter to win it! To find out where the Progressive Insurance Motorcycle will be on tour go to: Progressive.com For more on Sucker Punch Sallys check out SuckerPunchSallys.com

Plus We’ll show you how Royal Purple made it into the new video game Need For Speed-SHIFT. EA Producer Marc DeVellis will join us for an inside look at the hottest car racing video game of the year, which just hit stores this week! For more Need For Speed action check the links at: EA.com or RoyalPurple.com - It’s all on The PowerBlock September 19th & 20th.

Your TV would have to be broken to not have seen the commercials for Jay Leno’s return to NBC on Sept. 14. The celebrated comedian’s all new show airs weeknights at 10 p.m. eastern and pacific. Who knows how different his new show will be from the Tonight Show, but we hear that Jay is sure to weave some of his passion for cars into the fun – and for car enthusiasts, (like me) that’s a good thing.

While everyone knows Jay Leno as a great comedian and entertainer, we car guys appreciate him for another reason – his personal passion and true automotive credibility as a car collector. While the world is full of pseudo-celebrities whose only credentials are the ready cash to buy expensive performance cars, few can back it up with real knowledge about the cars they own. Not so with Leno, who is a student of the cars he collects. Best of all, he drives his cars, all of his cars, in regular rotation. It’s not a museum - it is his personal garage.

This month, PowerBlock, The Magazine (www.powerblockmag.com) was lucky enough to have Jay take us on a private tour of his collection of American muscle cars. As narrated by Leno (you can hear him in sound clips embedded into the digital magazine article) he walks us through each car ranging from his ‘70 Dodge Challenger Hemi to his 200mph plus Pratt & Miller Z06 Corvette. Each car is a story, entertainingly told by Leno himself laced with honest, personal, critical and sometimes comedic commentary about these blisteringly fast machines from the golden age of classic power and today. Thanks Jay.