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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:
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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.
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*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…
Jonee is correct here, and that’s how most museums with permanent collections work. Curators go into storage, look at what has a theme (or make a theme), bring it up and put it on exhibit, and include signage to explain why it is an exhibit.
That seems very plausible, as sealed beams were a US requirement, as you said. Maybe it was too costly to find a way to insert a separate bulb into a sealed beam, for something Americans never use.
“Town lights” were an intermediate setting below low beam headlights, for use in well-lit urban areas with lots of street lights. I believe this was a European-only thing, and simply came with US-bound Renaults, but I may be wrong on that. Parking lights, or sidelights as they are known in the UK, are used for…
The Lane Motor Museum has quite a few Victor Bouffort-designed vehicles, but not this one sadly. Bouffort was also responsible for the Lohr Fardier, the Valmobile folding scooter, and the Minima, a 2CV-based city car that would be available for public use all across the city: ZipCar 40 years too early. Interesting guy.
Absolutely! I’ll be sure to get the smarts out of hibernation for a review.
Wow, TWO cars that we also have at Lane Motor Museum! (Thanks for the shout out!). Crosleys are good fun, although not very fast, as you mentioned. Technically (pushes glasses up), the Crosley Super Sport and Hot Shot were America’s first domestic “sports” cars, predating the Corvette by a few years. Also, our Th!nk…
I checked the museum’s 3 (!) Dauphines...and I believe they are all US market cars. As nlpnt said, it seems the sealed beam units we got in the States failed to have a “town light” incorporated into the housing. However, the manual that came with the car mentions a 4 position headlight switch....I tried all three out,…
Most every weekend. I have two strikes against me, three things if you count being a neat freak.
Both. Some DeLorean owners are like me, introduced to the car through the movie as kids but have come to appreciate the wedge styling and quirks. Other owners are violently split down the middle. “Why did ‘ruin’ that DeLorean by making a time machine!?”, etc. It’s their car, IMO.
Yeah, this is the way I am thinking more and more. My in-laws have a Pacifica Hybrid, and its’ a great in-between. For that long of a commute, a PHEV makes the most sense. If I can’t charge at home or work for some reason (power outage, storm, etc.) then I can still get to work, with around 42 mpg. Not bad.
That was our old one! It’s passed through a few hands over the years since leaving us. We used it as more of a parts car to complete the nicer one that Torch drove in the video.
Ha! It would take me 4 days to get to work. It would be miserly on gas, that’s for sure!
Yeah, it’ll be hard to find in Tennessee...perhaps in a few years.