Jay Drives In A 1958 Edsel Roundup With Martha Stewart - Jay Leno's Garage

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enall right now i'm going to meet one of my favorite women of all time martha stewart i love this lady she lives in edsel ford's house the house that he had built and uh she's kept it all original done a beautiful job well you know how meticulous she is and her 58 edsel is pretty meticulous too we run for a drive we talked about growing up we talked about some of our past experiences in the car front seat and back so uh is our martha stewart car coming out in the future hey don't underestimate this woman okay it could happen we all know the story of henry ford and the model t and how it became the car that changed the world when henry ford turned out his 15 millionth car we knew the automobile age had really arrived well a decade later the car world was continuing to evolve other makers were producing improved mechanics and style with exciting colors by the late 1920s model t sales were dropping and the ford company was losing money so henry ford's college-educated son edsel came out with the next generation of the model t the better style better designed model a this car was the future and it saved the ford motor company but henry presented his son's focus on design and what he considered gimmicks like hydraulic brakes so henry fought edsel tooth and nail every time etsa wanted to try anything new or different edsel sadly ended up dying at the age of 49 from cancer but many people believe the cancer grew out of the chronic ulcers he had due to the stress of working with his exacting father however there was one place where he really got to be himself a house he called skylands which he had built to his exact specifications back in 1922. and i think he'd be pleased to see the state of skyland today thanks to the efforts of its current owner who's making all that noise now if somehow you don't recognize the most famous martha in the world just know that you probably cooked one of her recipes used some of her furniture or maybe dried off with one of her towels because martha stewart is america's foremost authority on lifestyle okay jay leno how exciting that you come to my house good to see you what a beautiful house thank you thank you boom and a beautiful car look at the edsel 58 edsel it is indeed it fits right in here i love it it goes so well with the house well this was of course edsel ford's house yes he built it with the help of a wonderful architect called duncan candler and he did such a magnificent job when martha bought skylands in 1997 she got more than just the property she also inherited a very specific set of rules so this is the harris which i love the traditions here are numerous the pads all have to be lined in golden pine needles why is that because they're pretty oh of course and then the green moss right you have the golden pads going around right it's like the yellow brick road but they're golden pine needles and where do you get the pine needles you have to go to another part of maine okay we don't have we don't have white pines on this property we have a lot of spruce then you sprinkle them on the pads and we have a special house where they're dried oh you dry each needle i mean it's like juan valdez with the coffee bean exactly each needle is a you bet and the driveways are pink granite they're gravel right and that is scraped up in october before the snow oh you scrape up all the gravel and use a mile of road you have to scrape up and then you have to wash the ground yeah you wash it and you store it for the winter right right and then in the spring you put it back down again yeah it's crazy but i do do that because you mean that whole drive up here you pick up all the stones and then put them back down again yep i'd do the same thing it would be easier to pave it but then no but that wouldn't look but then it wouldn't look like it wouldn't look like maine you know those are the traditions that i try to stick right right okay despite the imported pine needles and the hand washed gravel out here the inside of the house is just as impressive and there are traces of edsel everywhere and of course martha knows every detail about well everything and the plates look these are english staffordshire i love these plates you know i like these plates when they have like a meatball on them and what are these oh mrs ford's linens and this beautiful closet oh i love this look at the ropes like a roll top desk look isn't that great i've got to get one of these from my linens you do you do and these beautiful dishes were mrs ford's these are called orange fits a very very old pattern 18th century chinette i'm surprised century every one of these well i'd like to show you the laundry room you know as much as i'd like to see what kind of dryer sheets that's we used back in the day i i'd like to go for a drive than that exhale can we take it yeah and let's i'll show you a scenic route oh that'd be fun let's go do that and we can see the laundry room later although the car bears his name edsel the man had nothing to do with designing etzel the car which was released nearly 15 years after his death in fact etzel's widow and three sons strongly opposed the car having his name it wasn't any worse than any other car on the market it was a failure due to bad marketing a slow economy and some questionable design elements but the car does have some unique features all right let's see where if you can type you can drive that's pretty much what it is here you we started and it's in park push button transmission okay i put it in neutral and then i go to d and look at that the age we live in we're moving so tell me how did you discover this place had you heard about it for years was it oh no i i had no idea existed until one year about 20 years ago i came up for a weekend to visit some friends and they said you want to see the most beautiful house in maine and of course i'm a house buff so right and uh at the end of a five-hour cocktail tour i bought the house oh that's great now was it for sale like that it was but they were being very selective about who they sold it to they wanted somebody who would take care of it right so i'm really the caretaker of an historic property wow you've done a wonderful job it's just beautiful and you know what's nice is it's extremely quiet here yeah now was your first experience in a car um partially partially well that's that's that's usually the answer you know that was you you went to outdoor movies and what kind of car was it you know the outdoor movie car that was a ford station wagon street hall oh wow with the scene down the front because my boyfriend was the driver and the other couple was in the back seat oh okay and uh the other couples did more than we did oh that's the ps you were the good girl well i like to watch the movies right that's right it was shocking what was going on in the back seat now you and i have something in common we both like to work and you work really hard running the company doing this show where does that come from are you the most driven person in your family or or did you pick it up from well i am the most curious i think a person in the family and i think that curiosity kind of drives me to try many things and that's where i get my entrepreneurial vision from and if you're an entrepreneur you work hard because you're always trying to build something um out of just an idea what i found was like even my lawyer when we were going public he just didn't believe in me now do you think that because you're a woman or just because there was you know no it was a woman he didn't believe that i could take a company that's based on lifestyle right to the public markets and i did it extremely successfully right and he sent me an orchid he said i am now a believer and it's still like that there's still a prejudice against women i i do not consider myself um a you know rabid feminist but i'm a hard-working woman and i know how to make a success out of things and i try to encourage other women to feel good about what they're doing right let me ask you this there was the eddie bauer edition of the ford explorer yes there was the bill blas lincoln would you ever want to do a martha stewart edition of a car yes okay i would love to do my own edition of the car i have good practical solutions yeah and i just i know that they would work plus the colors i tell you what i am going to call some car companies we are going to get that martha stewart edition out excellent there you go martha thank you sweetheart thank you james very fun to spend the afternoon with you yeah and an axel in an insult uhall right now i'm going to meet one of my favorite women of all time martha stewart i love this lady she lives in edsel ford's house the house that he had built and uh she's kept it all original done a beautiful job well you know how meticulous she is and her 58 edsel is pretty meticulous too we run for a drive we talked about growing up we talked about some of our past experiences in the car front seat and back so uh is our martha stewart car coming out in the future hey don't underestimate this woman okay it could happen we all know the story of henry ford and the model t and how it became the car that changed the world when henry ford turned out his 15 millionth car we knew the automobile age had really arrived well a decade later the car world was continuing to evolve other makers were producing improved mechanics and style with exciting colors by the late 1920s model t sales were dropping and the ford company was losing money so henry ford's college-educated son edsel came out with the next generation of the model t the better style better designed model a this car was the future and it saved the ford motor company but henry presented his son's focus on design and what he considered gimmicks like hydraulic brakes so henry fought edsel tooth and nail every time etsa wanted to try anything new or different edsel sadly ended up dying at the age of 49 from cancer but many people believe the cancer grew out of the chronic ulcers he had due to the stress of working with his exacting father however there was one place where he really got to be himself a house he called skylands which he had built to his exact specifications back in 1922. and i think he'd be pleased to see the state of skyland today thanks to the efforts of its current owner who's making all that noise now if somehow you don't recognize the most famous martha in the world just know that you probably cooked one of her recipes used some of her furniture or maybe dried off with one of her towels because martha stewart is america's foremost authority on lifestyle okay jay leno how exciting that you come to my house good to see you what a beautiful house thank you thank you boom and a beautiful car look at the edsel 58 edsel it is indeed it fits right in here i love it it goes so well with the house well this was of course edsel ford's house yes he built it with the help of a wonderful architect called duncan candler and he did such a magnificent job when martha bought skylands in 1997 she got more than just the property she also inherited a very specific set of rules so this is the harris which i love the traditions here are numerous the pads all have to be lined in golden pine needles why is that because they're pretty oh of course and then the green moss right you have the golden pads going around right it's like the yellow brick road but they're golden pine needles and where do you get the pine needles you have to go to another part of maine okay we don't have we don't have white pines on this property we have a lot of spruce then you sprinkle them on the pads and we have a special house where they're dried oh you dry each needle i mean it's like juan valdez with the coffee bean exactly each needle is a you bet and the driveways are pink granite they're gravel right and that is scraped up in october before the snow oh you scrape up all the gravel and use a mile of road you have to scrape up and then you have to wash the ground yeah you wash it and you store it for the winter right right and then in the spring you put it back down again yeah it's crazy but i do do that because you mean that whole drive up here you pick up all the stones and then put them back down again yep i'd do the same thing it would be easier to pave it but then no but that wouldn't look but then it wouldn't look like it wouldn't look like maine you know those are the traditions that i try to stick right right okay despite the imported pine needles and the hand washed gravel out here the inside of the house is just as impressive and there are traces of edsel everywhere and of course martha knows every detail about well everything and the plates look these are english staffordshire i love these plates you know i like these plates when they have like a meatball on them and what are these oh mrs ford's linens and this beautiful closet oh i love this look at the ropes like a roll top desk look isn't that great i've got to get one of these from my linens you do you do and these beautiful dishes were mrs ford's these are called orange fits a very very old pattern 18th century chinette i'm surprised century every one of these well i'd like to show you the laundry room you know as much as i'd like to see what kind of dryer sheets that's we used back in the day i i'd like to go for a drive than that exhale can we take it yeah and let's i'll show you a scenic route oh that'd be fun let's go do that and we can see the laundry room later although the car bears his name edsel the man had nothing to do with designing etzel the car which was released nearly 15 years after his death in fact etzel's widow and three sons strongly opposed the car having his name it wasn't any worse than any other car on the market it was a failure due to bad marketing a slow economy and some questionable design elements but the car does have some unique features all right let's see where if you can type you can drive that's pretty much what it is here you we started and it's in park push button transmission okay i put it in neutral and then i go to d and look at that the age we live in we're moving so tell me how did you discover this place had you heard about it for years was it oh no i i had no idea existed until one year about 20 years ago i came up for a weekend to visit some friends and they said you want to see the most beautiful house in maine and of course i'm a house buff so right and uh at the end of a five-hour cocktail tour i bought the house oh that's great now was it for sale like that it was but they were being very selective about who they sold it to they wanted somebody who would take care of it right so i'm really the caretaker of an historic property wow you've done a wonderful job it's just beautiful and you know what's nice is it's extremely quiet here yeah now was your first experience in a car um partially partially well that's that's that's usually the answer you know that was you you went to outdoor movies and what kind of car was it you know the outdoor movie car that was a ford station wagon street hall oh wow with the scene down the front because my boyfriend was the driver and the other couple was in the back seat oh okay and uh the other couples did more than we did oh that's the ps you were the good girl well i like to watch the movies right that's right it was shocking what was going on in the back seat now you and i have something in common we both like to work and you work really hard running the company doing this show where does that come from are you the most driven person in your family or or did you pick it up from well i am the most curious i think a person in the family and i think that curiosity kind of drives me to try many things and that's where i get my entrepreneurial vision from and if you're an entrepreneur you work hard because you're always trying to build something um out of just an idea what i found was like even my lawyer when we were going public he just didn't believe in me now do you think that because you're a woman or just because there was you know no it was a woman he didn't believe that i could take a company that's based on lifestyle right to the public markets and i did it extremely successfully right and he sent me an orchid he said i am now a believer and it's still like that there's still a prejudice against women i i do not consider myself um a you know rabid feminist but i'm a hard-working woman and i know how to make a success out of things and i try to encourage other women to feel good about what they're doing right let me ask you this there was the eddie bauer edition of the ford explorer yes there was the bill blas lincoln would you ever want to do a martha stewart edition of a car yes okay i would love to do my own edition of the car i have good practical solutions yeah and i just i know that they would work plus the colors i tell you what i am going to call some car companies we are going to get that martha stewart edition out excellent there you go martha thank you sweetheart thank you james very fun to spend the afternoon with you yeah and an axel in an insult uh\n"