Raymond Loewy, while a genius, didn’t actually design the Studebaker Avanti. Much of the work was done by Tom Kellogg, Bob Andrews, and John Ebstein, who worked for Loewy. Loewy had a hand in a few things, as did others at Studebaker, but to credit him as being the sole designer of the Avanti does a disservice to the…

I don’t know if they post on Jalopnik, but I know that someone who works for the Lane posts at Gizmodo.

Eh, automakers are weird about what they put on cars. When Congress mandated seatbelts, carmakers screamed that they couldn’t possibly afford to do so as it would bankrupt them. Mind you, they weren’t arguing against putting on a cheap piece of plastic that might save a few gallons of gas under the right conditions,…

I have seen a detailed breakdown on the physics involved in such cars.  They can’t be made to work efficiently, even if it didn’t take any energy to compress the air to power them. The only practical use for them would be for golf-cart like vehicles in an area that was at risk of explosion from combustiable fumes in…

According to an ex-limo driver, triple-stretch limos are crap. It seems that they never get the frames straight, and there’s always just enough of an angle between the front and rear tires that it causes things like the u-joints and transmissions to have rather short lifespans. I used to see a triple-stretch Hummer…

Well, we know he’s going for Speed, but is he going for distance, in her time of need?

Nope. Give me crazy billionaire money and this would be something that I’d put into production. Seriously, for far less money than Musk is willing to blow on Twitter, I could make this thing (and a number of other concept designs) something that folks with a bit of cash could buy.

In rush hour traffic, I got into the left lane to make a turn at a traffic light and discovered that I had no brakes (the car was a 65 and had no seatbelts). Directly opposite me in the intersection was a car also looking to turn, it was impossible for me to get into the right lane, due to the heavy traffic, so I…

Saturn pioneered the use of Lost Foam casting, which enabled them to cast parts in ways that hadn’t been done before. Cutting edge at the time, but nothing as sophisticated as having to write software for an electric car.

How about a rotary powered motorcycle? https://www.lanemotormuseum.org/collection/motorcycles/item/hercules-w-2000-1975

Foot operated dimmer switch for the lights, and hood mounted turnsignal indicator lights.

I remember seeing a pic of this in 1988 or so, and thinking that if GM sold it, I’d buy it.

Automatic or manual, it’s a rather phallic HR Geiger looking design.

My first car was a 1971 Chrysler Newport 4-door, white, with a black vinyl top. 20 Freedom Units Long, and 7 Freedom Units wide. I’m a tad under 6 Freedom Units high and I could lay perfectly flat on the seat, with my feet barely touching the armrest on one door, and my head barely touching the armrest on the other…

Sink ‘em all! Let the insurance companies sort it out!

It might be their right, but if they were brown, they’d be dead by now. Funny how that works.

Hey, have you seen this article? There’s two Nissan concepts in a scrapyard in La Vergne! One of them’s a really neat looking design (and the other is kinda historic since it showed the direction Nissan was going with the Quest). If Jeff doesn’t want them, maybe he knows somebody who does.  https://jalopnik.com/two-nis…

I know that RexLMM reads this blog and works at the Lane. I’ve posted a link to the article on the Lane’s FB page, and Jeff’s got a number of Nissans in his collection, so there’s a chance that he might save them.

Oh, how I wish Divine was still with us.

Dafuq? ~10 years ago I watched Jeff Lane drive his LARC over all kinds of stuff. (I was there when the BMW convertible punctured the tire on the LARC.) What kind of guy is he? I’ve ridden in one of his Tatras, so I know he’s not afraid to take his cars out for a spin. And bringing the LARC to the Lane was a white…