Lane Motor Museum

Lane Motor Museum - July 24, 2010

What do a 200,000 pound former US Army LARC LX, a watermelon, and an old car have in common?  Not a thing but the Lane Motor Museum's Summer Smash II combined them into an interesting exhibition.

The LARC LX is reputedly the largest amphibious vehicle ever built.  Weighing in at 200,000 pounds and carrying a 165hp diesel engine for each of the four gigantic wheels it is truly an enormous wheeled vehicle.

This is the second "Summer Smash" that the museum has held, and the purpose is to use the LARC LX to smash a car and any other items that people happened to bring with them to be crushed.  As the photos below show it does a very, very good job of that!

They started with the car but I'm going to start with the watermelon ;)

And here comes the car ....

Before and after shots of the victim ....

I also wandered around the museum for a little while to see what was new ....

Lane Motor Museum - January 9, 2010 & March 21, 2010

The Lane Motor Museum is only a few miles from my home and I hate to admit that I've never visited there, but it's the truth.  It was 16° this morning so it was certainly a bit too cold to do much outside so I decided to go take a look at it.  I'm very glad that I did.  It is a very nice museum with about 150 cars and motorcycles on display.  As with a very few other museums there are very few barricades to prevent visitors from getting close to the exhibits so I was able to take some good photographs of the vehicles on display.

If you are in the Nashville area this place is a must see.  They are on Murfreesboro Road near downtown Nashville and not at all difficult to find.  Take a look next time you are in town, it's worth the visit.

A great place to spend a cold morning, and I will be back!