Art

When the average citizen thinks about art, they probably go with something traditional–Monet, Ansel Adams or even dogs playing poker. This past weekend I visited two museums that are more our speed: the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, and the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum, located just outside Birmingham, Alabama.

Both places are out of this world. The Lane museum’s collection can best be described as cars you have probably never seen: microcars, Western European cars, French cars, Japanese kei cars, amphibious cars, wooden cars and even a car driven by a propeller. The Lane museum houses one of the biggest Lotus collections, but their main focus is bikes: hundreds and hundreds or motorcycles. The collection ranges from the earliest bikes to new Hondas. I’d say both are worth a visit, either online or in person.