Guy Fieri drove Jay Leno around in a giant shopping cart — and we're here for it
Published 5:59 pm, Tuesday, April 24, 2018
, by Steven M. Johnson
San Francisco-based artist and inventor Steven Johnson, 77, has been coming up with somewhat wacky automobile features since the early ‘60s. A new book titled “Patent Depending: Vehicles” collects 40 years of his invented, self-illustrated car features.
, by Steven M. Johnson
San Francisco-based artist and inventor Steven Johnson, 77, has been coming up with somewhat wacky automobile features since the early ‘60s. A new book titled
from "Patent Depending: Vehicles," by Steven M. Johnson
from "Patent Depending: Vehicles," by Steven M. Johnson
from "Patent Depending: Vehicles," by Steven M. Johnson
from "Patent Depending: Vehicles," by Steven M. Johnson
from "Patent Depending: Vehicles," by Steven M. Johnson
from "Patent Depending: Vehicles," by Steven M. Johnson
from "Patent Depending: Vehicles," by Steven M. Johnson
from "Patent Depending: Vehicles," by Steven M. Johnson
from "Patent Depending: Vehicles," by Steven M. Johnson
from "Patent Depending: Vehicles," by Steven M. Johnson
from "Patent Depending: Vehicles," by Steven M. Johnson
from "Patent Depending: Vehicles," by Steven M. Johnson
from "Patent Depending: Vehicles," by Steven M. Johnson
from "Patent Depending: Vehicles," by Steven M. Johnson
from "Patent Depending: Vehicles," by Steven M. Johnson
from "Patent Depending: Vehicles," by Steven M. Johnson
from "Patent Depending: Vehicles," by Steven M. Johnson
from "Patent Depending: Vehicles," by Steven M. Johnson
from "Patent Depending: Vehicles," by Steven M. Johnson
from "Patent Depending: Vehicles," by Steven M. Johnson
from "Patent Depending: Vehicles," by Steven M. Johnson
from "Patent Depending: Vehicles," by Steven M. Johnson
Jay Leno and Guy Fieri are admitted car fanatics, but they also enjoy a jokey sight gag vehicle as much as the next person.
A sneak preview for an upcoming episode of "Jay Leno's Garage" saw the former late-night host and the mayor of Flavortown tooling around in what is essentially an enormous. Grocery store. Cart.
"It's called the Express Lane," Fieri says to Leno as he drives the 9-feet-tall contraption out of a garage. Boasting a 300-horsepower, small block Chevy 350 engine that purrs down the driveway, this is certainly not the classic Camaro or the Shelby Cobra that Fieri is perhaps more known for.
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"Is this what you use to go shopping?" Leno dad-jokes with Fieri before climbing into the cart, perched in the kiddie-seat area.
What follows is a surreal visual of the duo as they drive about outdoors, narrowly missing the branches of trees, with serene pastures in the background.
While you may be tickled at the thought of Santa Rosa-native Fieri owning a giant, driveable grocery cart amongst his roster of cars — perhaps in homage to his other Food Network show, "Guy's Grocery Games" — alas. We hate to burst your bubble.
As it turns out, this street-legal vehicle dubbed the "Shopper Chopper" is the brainchild of Pennsylvanian Cal VanSant and a son-in-law, who loan out the cart for commercials and promotional gigs, including (you guessed it) "Guy's Grocery Games."
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Media: FoxM9NJThe giant shopping cart helped promote Fieri's show back in 2013 and turned heads during a "Good Morning America" appearance. (On the upside, the cart is available for rent for parade and grocery store needs.)
If you're more interested in Fieri's more conventional car collection, take a look at another preview of Fieri's appearance on "Jay Leno's Garage" over on Facebook.
