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\"Jeff<\/a>
Jeff Lane enjoys driving his cars as often as possible, including this Fiat Balilla.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In June, <\/i>Vintage Roadcar<\/i><\/b> had an opportunity to visit with Jeff Lane at the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville, Tennessee.\u00a0 Lane, whose background is in mechanical engineering and who is a former sports car racer, has been collecting cars for some time, and his collection has been called unusual, eclectic, eccentric and other similar terms. The best description, however, is that it\u2019s just cool. Lane is a car guy with some very unusual and interesting cars.<\/i><\/p>\n

VR: When did you get interested in cars?<\/b><\/p>\n

JL:<\/b> It almost goes back to when I was a kid. My dad was in the automotive supply business in Detroit, Michigan, and he was also into cars. Oddly enough, he was into European cars. So as a kid we were always working on cars and going to car meets. Being a car person was just kind of ingrained in me, I guess, from my youth.<\/p>\n

\"Lane<\/a>
Lane is also fascinated with propeller- driven automobiles, and has several in his collection.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

VR: What was your first car?<\/b><\/p>\n

JL:<\/b> My first car was a 1955 MG TF, and it has a very unique story. My dad bought a new MG TF when he was in Germany, in the Army in 1954. He was in the Army for two years. When he got out, he came back to Detroit, where he grew up, and got married within about a year and a half of coming back. He quickly realized that being in a northern climate and now being married, the MG TF was not a very practical car. So he got rid of it after having it about two or three years. Then in, I think, 1967 he became interested in having another MG, and he bought one that was in poor condition. He drove it a little bit. At that point I was seven years old. After about a year of driving it, he decided to restore it. So, I spent three or four years helping take it apart and restoring the car. When I was twelve, he asked me what I wanted for Christmas, and, thinking like a kid, I said, \u201csince I helped you rebuild your car, maybe you\u2019d give me a TF for Christmas.\u201d I didn\u2019t think anything of it, but he bought me an MG TF in pieces, and that\u2019s what I got for Christmas. It was in the back of a pickup truck in the back yard when I woke up Christmas morning. I spent the next four years putting it together. I grew up in the little town of Romeo, north of Detroit, and there was one lady who ran what they called Secretary of the State who sold license plates and gave out driver\u2019s licenses. She had seen my dad\u2019s car; it had been done for a couple years, and she had seen it around town.\u00a0 She\u2019d asked him for a ride in it, and he had said, \u201cmaybe some time.\u201d So finally he told her, \u201cMy son\u2019s going to get his license in his car, and you can get a ride when he comes down to take his driver\u2019s license test.\u201d We went down there\u2014my dad drove of course\u2014 and I got in the driver\u2019s seat, and she got in.\u00a0 She told me to go down the street and turn and to go to where her neighbors lived; she wanted to show them the car. We drove over there, stopped and showed her neighbors the car, drove back to the office, and she gave me my driver\u2019s license. It was a special car back then, and I\u2019m lucky that my very first car was special. I never considered getting rid of it.<\/p>\n

\"Tatras<\/a>
Tatras are one of the themes at the Lane Motor Museum. Lane was invited to include this one in the Sensuous Steel exhibit at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

VR: So you still have it?<\/b><\/p>\n

JL:<\/b> I still have it. It\u2019s still here in the museum.<\/p>\n

VR: What made you decide to start collecting?<\/b><\/p>\n

JL:<\/b> I guess my dad was a little bit of a collector. We started out with MGs, and he kind of stuck with MGs. I know at one time we had about ten MGs\u2014T-series, J2, an M-Type\u2014but I really didn\u2019t get interested in collecting until, I would say, the mid-\u201990s.\u00a0 Before that, I had my MG, and I bought a TC.\u00a0 I had a couple cars, but I think I got interested in collecting when I bought an Isetta and restored it in the early \u201990s. From there, I kind of blossomed out into car collecting.<\/p>\n

VR: I know you\u2019re a racer.\u00a0 When did you start racing?<\/b><\/p>\n

JL:<\/b> I started racing at Waterford Hills (a club track in the Detroit area). I think back then you could race at Waterford when you were 16. SCCA was 18, but Waterford Hills was a private club, so you could race at 16. But it seems that I was 17 when I got my first racing license and started racing.\u00a0 I lived only an hour from there, so it was close.<\/p>\n

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The Lane Motor Museum is an incredible assembly of unique and unusual automobiles. Anyone who can name half of them without looking at the information plaques must be considered a knowledgeable car guy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

VR: Then you raced with the SCCA?<\/b><\/p>\n

JL:<\/b> Yes, I raced in SCCA. When I went to college, I was in Nashville part of the time, so that\u2019s when I started racing in SCCA.<\/p>\n

VR: I seem to remember that you went to the Runoffs on occasion.<\/b><\/p>\n

JL:<\/b> I finished 2nd twice, but I never got the big win. It was four or five years that I ran at the Runoffs pretty competitively in an F Production MG Midget. The car in the collection is the third Midget. The first one I raced at Waterford Hills got totaled\u2014it never raced in SCCA. Then the second Midget got totaled at Mid-Ohio, and this is the third car. After I wound down the national racing, I got involved in Improved Touring racing and endurance racing in Volvos. That was a lot of fun, and a lot less work.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
The Lane Motor Museum is an incredible assembly of unique and unusual automobiles. Anyone who can name half of them without looking at the information plaques must be considered a knowledgeable car guy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

VR: You went to Vanderbilt?<\/b><\/p>\n

JL:<\/b> Yes, for mechanical engineering.<\/p>\n

VR: When did the museum happen?<\/b><\/p>\n

JL:<\/b> The museum opened in October 2003, so we have just observed our tenth anniversary. We spent a year before that renovating the building, so we started in \u201902.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

VR: Had your collection grown to the point that you thought of having a museum, or had the thought of having a museum caused your collection to grow?<\/b><\/p>\n

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The Lane family MGs\u2014 Jeff\u2019s TF in the foreground, his sister\u2019s next, then his dad\u2019s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

JL:<\/b> First of all, there was never a grand plan. Some people might say that you planned this all along or you\u2019re where you want to be, but that\u2019s not how it happened. I didn\u2019t have a grand plan, but what really happened was that I started to collect cars\u2014 Amphicar, Tatra T 87, some unique cars. I would drive around town and people would see them and would ask about them. It got to the point where I had people say they\u2019d like to come see my collection. Before the museum started, I had about 90 cars in five different industrial buildings\u2014spread out\u2014and there were always a couple scattered around in garages in rental houses. I had a neighbor whose son was a car nut who wanted to see the collection. My neighbor wrote me and said that was what his son wanted for his birthday present. So we set a time, and he came over\u2014young, enthusiastic kid. We went over to where three of the industrial buildings were close together. He had an instant camera; we got in the first building, and he\u2019s going crazy. I told him that this was only the first of three buildings\u2014he had taken about half the camera in the first minute of being there. So, I would take people on tours, but they never got to see everything, because the cars were so spread out. I finally decided that I had two choices\u2014one was to stop collecting cars or not collect any more, and the other was to put them together in an entity where people could see them. I wanted to share them with people; I wanted people to see them and experience them. So, I thought the museum was the perfect thing. That way, people can come and experience them. I\u2019ll be here for a while to take care of them, but when I\u2019m gone, they\u2019ll still be here for people to enjoy.<\/p>\n

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The first mentioned was the Voisin C27 A\u00e9rosport from the Mullin Automotive Museum that\u2019s being shown at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

VR: How did you find this building?<\/b><\/p>\n

JL:<\/b> We looked for at least a year for a building. It was difficult, because every building we looked at was a crummy old industrial building. This building wasn\u2019t in the greatest shape, but we could see a lot of potential in it. We initially tried to buy it, but they had their offices here for their bakery business. So we suggested that we buy only the warehouse space and they could own the offices, which would bring the price down to be in our budget. They didn\u2019t want to do that, so we continued to look. Six months later, they were still here, and we were still looking. They became more flexible, so we were able to buy the whole building.<\/p>\n

VR: You now have quite a staff\u2014you not only display cars, you maintain, restore and build cars.<\/b><\/p>\n

JL: <\/b>Yeah. We built a couple cars from nothing. We have eight full time people and two part-time.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
If it was a car that no longer exists, Lane would have Kurtis Californian, the car on which the Dale three-wheelers were modeled.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

VR: The cars you have are as unusual as the Gregory we saw in the shop and the Voisin that is in there being restored. On the floor and in the basement, you\u2019ve got a lot of cars. How much space do you have here?<\/b><\/p>\n

JL:<\/b> We have 140,000 square feet. We\u2019re actually giving more basement tours these days\u2014not every weekend, but most weekends we open up the basement for people to see the cars down there.<\/p>\n

VR: What\u2019s your favorite car?<\/b><\/p>\n

JL:<\/b> That\u2019s a tough one. I don\u2019t really have a favorite. If I had to pick one, it would have to be my first car, the TF, but I like all the cars. I enjoy driving a Fiat 500 or BMW Isetta. I enjoy the cars for what they are and what they represent. To me, that\u2019s the passion. I\u2019m not like a reporter from one of the major newspapers who wanted to drive the Peel in the lobby at the New York Auto Show. He was obviously not a car guy. You have to get in there\u2014the hand start is right next to you, and it\u2019s really difficult to drive. We had to push-start it to get him going because he couldn\u2019t get it started with the hand start; he just wasn\u2019t that coordinated. He went about 30 feet and stalled it. He said, \u201cIt\u2019s not a Honda Accord, is it?\u201d I said, \u201cNo, it\u2019s not a Honda Accord in any way, shape or form.\u201d It was never meant to be. It was a tiny little car made to run around on an island and keep you out of the rain when it was pouring. Cars are what they are, and there are reasons why they are what they are.<\/p>\n

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But Lane eventually decided that he\u2019d most like to have the Leyat propeller car that set a speed record at the Monthlery circuit in France.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

VR: You walk into the museum, and the first impression is OMG, there\u2019s some of everything in here. How do you decide what you\u2019re going to buy and add to the museum?<\/b><\/p>\n

JL:<\/b> We have some core themes\u2014Tatra, micro cars, and unique and unusual, which is a very wide theme. We try to stay focused on things that are in the niches that we have\u2014propeller cars is one of them, a small one, and amphibious cars. When we look at a car, I ask if it fits in with the collection. When we go to a concours, even when we\u2019re not with the car, people know it\u2019s a Lane Motor Museum car because it\u2019s different than anything else around. That\u2019s our strategy and our branding, I guess. We ask is it unique and different, something people haven\u2019t seen, and does it fit in with what we have now. There are so many choices for collections, but nobody can do everything. There\u2019s a poster with all the Fiat 500s that were made\u2014all the variants. That could be a museum in itself. So, we look at a car and ask: is it unique and different, is it interesting, does it fit in with what we have?<\/p>\n

VR: Now the question we ask everyone we interview: If a genie popped out of a lantern and said you could have any car in the world regardless of cost, what would you get?<\/b><\/p>\n

JL:<\/b> Wow. Just one? I\u2019m torn between picking something that exists and something you hope exists. One of my favorite cars that exists is the Voisin C27 A\u00e9rosport that\u2019s at the Frist (Sensuous Steel exhibit at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville). That\u2019s a spectacular car. And if I could pick a car that probably doesn\u2019t exist\u2014the Davis was developed from a car called the Californian that was a one-off prototype. Or maybe I could pick a Layat? Maybe I\u2019ll pick the Layat Monthl\u00e9ry speed record car, which we know does not exist. I guess that still gives me two picks (laughter).<\/p>\n

More information on the Lane Motor Museum can found at www.lanemotormuseum.org<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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