Final Exam - Lane Motor Museum

Me and my mom next to a Maserati Bora, March 20, 2005. 

Lane Motor Museum is a car museum in Nashville, TN, that has a collection of over 330 cars.
While I was into vehicular oddities from a young age, the real spark to my interest came when I first visited Lane Motor Museum on January 23, 2005. It was an unseasonably cold day, even for January. I had heard about Lane Motor Museum from a Tennessean article the previous year and it had spiked my interest. At this time, Lane wasn't nearly as popular as it is today, as it had been open for only two years. My pictures from that day are some of the earliest on Flickr as of May 6, 2014.

I had a new Canon PowerShot A75 at the time that I had gotten for my 12th birthday the month before - it was state of the art with its 3.2 megapixels. I felt like a kid in a candy store, snapping pictures of the cars. Ultimately, I covered a large percentage of the collection that they had out that day. The quality was mixed; I was an excited kid with little experience in photography. No matter. I saw cars old and new, tiny and big, and some that were very odd. I learned about countless cars during that one day, and Lane Motor Museum became a magical place for me. Some of the cars on this blog are ones I learned about during my trips to Lane. 

The cars were rotated out; some would be under maintenance, while others would be on display. The collection paled in comparison to what's offered today, but I made every car count - and it took up a whole floor of a former Sunbeam bakery even back then! My second visit, on March 20, 2005, came only two months after the first, so there wasn't a complete rotation of the vehicles. I still got a lot of new material - including the 1929 Wind Wagon, a one of a kind vehicle featured in Road and Track's April 2004 issue. July 2 of that year saw my third visit, and more new material. At the time, I saw the Triumph TR8 and labeled it "the worst vehicle ever made." (Remember, I was just 12 years old then!) My more educated and mature opinion is kinder to the TR8; it did have a punchy V8 engine and was a good design, albeit prevented from reaching its full potential by inconsistent British Leyland build quality. 

My early pictures were hampered by the fact that I had an interior fixation, due to my (still ongoing) interest in car safety. I wanted to get pictures of unpadded dashboards with dangerous elements. 

I last visited on July 31, 2009, but I plan on making another visit in early summer 2014.

Here's a video explaining a little about Lane and some of their cars. Pictures were all taken by me. The song "Still the One" was chosen because that after 9 years, Lane is still my favorite car place!