The 2022 garage fire that burned his face and cost him his left ear didn’t scare him away from cars; it clarified what mattered. Having already shifted from The Tonight Show to Jay Leno’s Garage and its millions of fans, he’s now scripting an ending that feels unmistakably his: not a tearful farewell on a studio stage, but a legacy cast in metal, fuel, and memory, idling forever just beyond the spotlight.