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Lane Motor Museum is an automobile museum in Nashville, Tennessee holding a collection of over 500 mostly European automobiles, with 150 vehicles displayed on any given day.[1]
Established | October 2002 |
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Location | Nashville, Tennessee |
Coordinates | 36°8′24.95″N 86°44′3.17″W / 36.1402639°N 86.7342139°W |
Type | Automobile museum |
Collection size | 500+ automobiles 60+ motorcycles Related art and memorabilia |
Director | David Yando |
President | Jeff Lane |
Public transit access | WeGo Public Transit Route 15 |
Website | www.lanemotormuseum.org |
Museum
editThe museum was established as a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization in October 2002 by Jeff and Susan Lane,[2] beginning with his personal collection of 70–80 vehicles in Nashville's former American Bread Company bakery (1951-1994).[1][3] The collection also includes automobile art and memorabilia. The museum features European cars of unusual design, propeller-driven vehicles, microcars, three-wheeled cars, amphibious vehicles, alternative fuel vehicles, military vehicles, competition cars, one-off vehicles, prototypes — and 23 Tatras.[4]
In 2010 the museum began to host an annual fundraiser where donors were able to drive a museum car on a nearby rural route, which continued at least through 2014.[5][6]
References
edit- ^ a b "Crazy Cool Classic" (PDF). The Tennessee Magazine. February 2008.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ McEwan, Charles (October 5, 2011). "Hitting the Tennessee Roads in Rolling Museum Pieces". The New York Times.
- ^ McCourt, Mark J. (November 2006). "Jeff and Susan Lane". Hemmings Classic Car. Archived from the original on 2017-08-27.
- ^ Cars At Large Archived 2008-09-22 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Road and Track magazine, February 2014 issue, page 22
- ^ Unusual cars meet rural Tennessee Road and Track website