The Engineer Who Drives a Propeller-Powered Car
Oct 26, 2025
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Jeff Lane, 65, the director of the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville, Tenn., on his 1932 Helicron, as told to A.J. Baime.
I have been called the “king of weird” and the “patron saint of oddball cars.” The museum I founded with my collection in 2002 has about 40 one-offs, a bunch of microcars—all kinds of things that, typically, you have not seen before. My background is in mechanical engineering, so while some people love the aesthetics of cars, I find beauty in the technology—the propulsion itself.
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