If you’re ever in Nashville, come by Lane Motor Museum and we will hook you up. We have a Vespa 400 that runs, sort of, but it does run!
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These concept vehicles used to live in Lane Motor Museum’s basement, as part of the Nissan heritage collection. A few years ago we had discussed with Nissan displaying them, but neither we or Nissan had room for them. This was inevitable and not really anything anyone could do legally. It would be great if they could… Read more
Correct. The Titan and NV vans are made in Canton, and possibly something else. Maybe Armadas?
He’s great, and big on sharing and demonstrating the cars in the collection. We just got new tires for the LARC in 2018, so it can technically be driven again, but we’re not running over E30s with it anytime soon.
I would’ve mentioned the Corphibian, but we have never tested on the water yet. All we have is 8mm footage of it on a Michigan lake.
I love the design, but this is where I give an Amphicar more points: it’s easier to enter the water. I can totally see an amphibious Type 3 owner forgetting to bolt on the paddle wheels. With the Amphicar, the propellers are right there, ready to go. All one has to do is make sure the doors are latched, put it in… Read more
I also grew up and still live in Cookeville (north of where this took place). I concur with your analysis. I’m only a few years older than these teenagers, and have driven this stretch late at night more than a few times. I’m glad the guardrail is there now, but it was obviously too many years too late.
As Torch and Jonee will probably attest, you really need to visit us when you get a chance. We also now have a nice Trojan 200, which were just rebadged Heinkels. Our Trojan is really purty even compared to the other restored microcars in the collection. Read more
Thanks! And I’ve been here since 2015...just not as active lately, because Kinja is increasingly frustrating to use.
It was a bit butt-puckering there for a bit.
The Goliath is the only one in the stack that doesn’t run. We just winched it onto the Tissier, secured it, and drove around to the museum floor.
See above about the stacked trucks. See the Dymaxion? Torch drove it in 2015, and showed Jay Leno what is was in 2018!
Crap, I meant descending order. I was thinking smallest to biggest.
Yes, it is a Tissier! Good eye. And the bottom truck is a 1994 Tatra T-807. I posted the contents of this exhibit above, but here’s a quick video on how we Stacked them up:
See my reply above, and watch this video on how we did it. It was...not as easy as it looks in the sped up video:
Ditto. The wife is next in line for a car in a few years...maybe I can talk her out of her Outback (doubt it) and into an AWD Hybrid XLT.
*clears throat* Jeff Lane saw this stunt somewhere else with three cars (and Torch did it somewhere else), and thought we could best it. So in early 2020, we stacked (also the name of the exhibit) this up. In ascending order, its an ACOMA Mini Comtesse (Jason Drives did that one a few years ago), then a Subaru Sambar…
Perhaps. Sent an email with pictures (or a link) to our curator, Robert Jones, at jones@lanemotormuseum.org. Thanks!
We do have one Bond microcar, a later 875 from 1967. https://www.lanemotormuseum.org/collection/cars/item/bond-875-1967
Heated seats are great on cold days even in Tennessee. I built an XLT FWD Hybrid Maverick and added the “XLT Luxury Package” . It’s an added $2,345 package, but comes with heated seats and heated steering wheel (!). All -in, with the moonroof that I want, I got it up to $28K, not $38K. I can’t imagine there’s that big… Read more