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Mercedes-Benz has this interesting history of prototypes that were meant as just design tests or concepts for future platforms, but would have made great production models.

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Ha! Yes, actually, it is. Swing around on Google maps: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Lan…

Yes. We have an on site wood shop, and our craftsman is amazing. So is our metal fabricator. Errybody is amazing, actually, but I’m biased.

Chris, our staff member that fed the hot dog into the propeller in the video, says there is a little pull, but not like a vortex is sucking you in. But, he says, he doesn’t have long hair and/or a long, billowy clothing on, which most certainly could get caught.

Lol. It’s actually very welcomed advertising for the museum, and Jason genuinely loves this wacky place. I think the Hoffmann video has been viewed over 1.2 million times by now. That’s a big deal for us. (Thanks Jason, Mike and Jared!)

Yes. This one, also found hanging in a barn in France: 1930 L’Eclair. Indian V-twin engine, wood-bodied, and much faster. It’s the sports car version of the Helicron. Built by Monsieur Jean Legeay, there were stories of him driving through his village, chopping up chickens that crossed the road.

Actually, Jeff is the Willy Wonka of transporation. I am very much an Oopma-Loompa.

Right?! I’ve also been wanting a small steam powered, narrow gauge locomotive (or a service car or something) to travel along the rail line in the back parking lot. If we get a blimp, I’m pretty sure we will have most forms of human land propulsion, save for actual rocket propelled cars.

The main reason we don’t get it out on the road is that it really really struggles with hills, and there is one to either side of the museum’s entrance. Plus, when the Mini Comtesse or Peel breaks down, we can pretty easily get those back to the parking lot. The Helicron weighs quite bit more, to say the least.

Seriously, its the best.

In addition to the human-chomping, I always ask school kids when I am demonstrating this thing that what if propeller-powered cars did become popular? The noise....oh man, just.....the noise. Paris during the 1930s would have been a deafening place to live.

If we ever got one these kits, I’m sure Jeff would slap it on. It’s great little car.

Yes, it seems the front seat bottom lifts up, then the back is laid down to form a crude bed. Not near as usable at the Janus’s, but it has the advantage of entry from either side. Thanks! Now I’m looking for what else folds into a bed in the collection (I know the Tatra T-603 does).

When I get to work Monday morning I am going to check to see if our Fram King Fulda does this. I’ll bet it does. Neat!

I was hoping you’d reference the Janus’s seats’ ability to fold down into a bed, thus becoming the smallest RV/mobile tiny house ever. Was not disappointed.

I’m sure you don’t live anywhere close to Nashville, but I’m usually looking for good volunteers.

1.) I don’t own the TME Evo, the museum I work for does.

We have one of those too! Ours is in not as nice of a shape as Bruce Weiner’s was. The one in the middle is an Acoma Super Comtesse (like a GT version, perhaps?)