We got the brakes fixed on the trailer, finally. Spare is here and secure under the belly of the RV, and basically we can move now. However, weather again is playing a factor in us moving - today
we are supposed to have severe thunderstorms all day, so we sit. Tomorrow we head out again towards Cincinnati. We were bored yesterday so we headed into Nashville to see a museum most people don't know about - the Lane Motor Museum - which said it was a collectors museum of different foreign cars and vehicles. We have been to Nashville a couple of times, we weren't excited about going to see the Grand Ole Opry again, or visiting the music places in Nashville. The Lane Motor Museum is a collection of cars that Jeff Lane, or his family, owned and then he purchased or had people donate their vehicles. Jeff grouped the cars by nation in the building, very effective. Dave got so excited because he saw a Fiat 500, in the picture above - the white one - like the one he paid $125 for when he was in college. Drove it for a year and sold it for $125. He loved this little car. And they still make the Fiat 500 today. This little car has been manufactured by Italy since 1936 but Fiat has been a producer of cars since 1899. A car that wowed
me was the King Midget microcar (right) that was made in Ohio in the 1940's. It was purchased from a circus (used as a clown car) and a partner found the boat and then donated it also to the museum. This Jeff Lane had to have lots of money - at age 12 his father gave him an MG TF 1954 but - it was in pieces in the back of his father's pick up truck and had to restore it which took him 2 years. He later took his driver's license test in it. The MGs seemed to be an obsession of the family - many were on display of what the family owned. As a college present Jeff purchased a brand new Porsche for himself and
this really started his obsession with cars and began the next 30 years of collecting. Out back in the yard was a US Army LARC, the largest vehicle ever to ply the roads - stood over 20 feet tall. We watched the video on how they got this thing to the museum, scraping bridges, having to take down telephone and electrical wires before it passed under. It's huge! Afterward Dave and I remarked that we didn't see any Carmen Ghias, Austin Healy's, Triamphs, and no Chinese cars and no Toyotas. Jeff Lane got Paul Newman to donate his Nissan 300ZX that he raced, to the museum. The museum was neat to see, the lighting in the building was not that great, but quite a collection. The museum has only been open at this location for 4 years, it renovated the Sunbeam Bread Company building (no, we did not smell yeast!).
we are supposed to have severe thunderstorms all day, so we sit. Tomorrow we head out again towards Cincinnati. We were bored yesterday so we headed into Nashville to see a museum most people don't know about - the Lane Motor Museum - which said it was a collectors museum of different foreign cars and vehicles. We have been to Nashville a couple of times, we weren't excited about going to see the Grand Ole Opry again, or visiting the music places in Nashville. The Lane Motor Museum is a collection of cars that Jeff Lane, or his family, owned and then he purchased or had people donate their vehicles. Jeff grouped the cars by nation in the building, very effective. Dave got so excited because he saw a Fiat 500, in the picture above - the white one - like the one he paid $125 for when he was in college. Drove it for a year and sold it for $125. He loved this little car. And they still make the Fiat 500 today. This little car has been manufactured by Italy since 1936 but Fiat has been a producer of cars since 1899. A car that wowed
me was the King Midget microcar (right) that was made in Ohio in the 1940's. It was purchased from a circus (used as a clown car) and a partner found the boat and then donated it also to the museum. This Jeff Lane had to have lots of money - at age 12 his father gave him an MG TF 1954 but - it was in pieces in the back of his father's pick up truck and had to restore it which took him 2 years. He later took his driver's license test in it. The MGs seemed to be an obsession of the family - many were on display of what the family owned. As a college present Jeff purchased a brand new Porsche for himself and 
this really started his obsession with cars and began the next 30 years of collecting. Out back in the yard was a US Army LARC, the largest vehicle ever to ply the roads - stood over 20 feet tall. We watched the video on how they got this thing to the museum, scraping bridges, having to take down telephone and electrical wires before it passed under. It's huge! Afterward Dave and I remarked that we didn't see any Carmen Ghias, Austin Healy's, Triamphs, and no Chinese cars and no Toyotas. Jeff Lane got Paul Newman to donate his Nissan 300ZX that he raced, to the museum. The museum was neat to see, the lighting in the building was not that great, but quite a collection. The museum has only been open at this location for 4 years, it renovated the Sunbeam Bread Company building (no, we did not smell yeast!).
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