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.” ...

In 1929, the streets of Los Angeles witnessed a unique spectacle: a car propelled by an aircraft engine and propeller. This unusual vehicle, dubbed the “Rumbler,” was the brainchild of American ...