Time for some race cars

To say that the race cars at the Lane Museum are a bit eclectic is to say, well I don't know, here are some of them. I will have more later.A 1960 Saab 93 currently being raced in some vintage class?
A 1966 Citroen DS set up for ice racing. I wish I knew how this ended up in Nashville TN. Not your ice racing capitol of America.

1985 Renault 5 Turbo 2. One of the Killer B's rally cars.
1985 MG Metro 6R4. Another of the Killer B's. This one has the old Rover V8 cut down to a V6. That is the old Buick aluminum block V8 that they had in the early 60's that GM sold to Rover because nobody over here would buy it.

This is an Austin Healey Sprite running in the SCCA F/Prepared class. No info on who's are why its here?

A 2001 Dallara IRL car. I think this one was sponsored by Red Bull, not sure.

1967 Can-Am car with a 2002 PCD Saxon British hill climb car in the background.

1967 Caldwell Can-Am race car campaigned and still owned by Sam Posey. They have a TV in the background playing old footage from the races. It appears that the only time it was filmed was when higher placed cars were passing it. The cars here really are a lot of fun and a little of everything.

So small I would need two

The Lane Museum Has a great collection of micro cars.Of course they would have a Messerschmitt with picnic basket.
1926 Hanomag with wooden spokes.

Just a few of their micros.

A Goggomobile Dart with a special body.

And of course the Peel.

When I see one of these I always think of Clarkson driving one through the BBC studio.

more things that go from the Lane Museum

The Lane Museum also has four different propeller driven cars. I had the Tatra yesterday and here are the other three.This is a 1929 Wind Wagon. The plans were published in The Boy Mechanic magazine and this one was built by Sam Posey's uncle. Posey refered to this vehicle in his book "The Mudge Pond Express" and this was it.
This is the Harley-Davidson engine that powered this 1919 Leyat Helico. The car is a reproduction because none survived. Again this was built from original plans

More airplane than car. They didn't realize the efficiency lost through being propeller driven.

This view looks like Jules Verne designed it.

The 1932 Helicron. This one is original. Just think what lawyers would do with this today.

Just too cool.

The ever popular Tatra brand

The Lane Museum has the largest collection of Czechoslovakia cars out side of you know where. Today I am going to show you the Tatra's they have. These are very interesting. The 1958 Tatra T-603. When the communist ran the country they decided they needed a big fancy car for party officials only, this is it.

This is a 1947 T-87. It was designed in 1936. After Germany took over the country in WW2 all of the German officers wanted one. It is rumoured that so many officers died driving the cars that they were outlawed from driving them. They had an air cooled engine so they didn't freeze up during the Russian invasion.

A 1934 T-57 Roadster

1950 Tatra 607 Monoposto. They built this car to run in Formula 1. Yes that is what I said Formula 1. Now don't laugh! They used it to test their V8 engine for the T-603. The peoples car that was only for the party officials.

This is the 1942 Aeroluge. This car was asked for by Hitler. He thought this would help them speed across the snow in Russia. They only built one prototype which is in the Tatra Museum. This one is a reproduction built from original parts.

This is the 1925 T-11 built for the Targa-Florio.

How many Citroen's are too many?

Last week while returning through Nashville, I spent several hours at the Lane Automotive Museum. What a blast. I am going to feature a lot of cars from the museum over the next few weeks. I am going to start with just SOME of the Citroen's they have. They have about 400 cars so they can't put them all on display. Finally a 2CV that knows where it is going.
What????

Your basic racing 2CV.

An SM, how appropriate?

This is the Citroen that the French were going to take to get to the front during WW2.

The classic "Bad Guy" car.

Daytona into the night and day

As they run into the night it starts getting more interesting.Not the best line.
OOPS!!

Most interesting pictures at night.

And the winner is! A Porsche V8?

....they Go at Daytona

We are 2 hours into the 24. It has started wet but is starting to dry at 2 hours.
WET!!!

They don't let water spread them out.

New Camaro doing OK.

Starting to get a little sun.

Second lap. Ugh!