Two-Tone Truck
TLCB’s Rover 200 is two-tone, but somehow beige-and-rust doesn’t look quite as good as Sseven Brick’s classic orange-and-white Ford F-250. Cleverly constructed in 7-wide, the white portion of the...
View ArticleLost (the plot)
Hollywood loves a plane crash on an uninhabited island. ‘Cast Away’, ‘Lost’, ‘Send Help’, and of course the fantastic book that inspired all of them – ‘The Lord of the Flies’ – explore what happens...
View ArticleNyckelback
Built for Sweden by the Dutch in 1627, the Kalmar Nyckel was a full-rigged warship that also served to transport Finnish and Swedish immigrants to America, making eight such transatlantic crossings....
View ArticleM is for MAN
Lots of companies are called Muller in Europe, but seeing as we only know what one of them does, we’re going to assume this lovely MAN TGX truck and trailer combo by Flickr’s Keko007 is full of those...
View ArticleInsert Moderately Monied Male
The early-‘00s Porsche 911 (997) is driven by exactly one sort of person. They may or may not wear sunglasses, a shirt or a blazer, be forty-six or sixty-four, but they will – without exception – be a...
View ArticleNazi Chase
TLCB Elves are all happily watching ‘Indiana Jones, Raiders of the Lost Ark’ today, thanks to previous bloggee _Tyler and this excellent recreation of the 1937 Mercedes-Benz 320 Staff Car that starred...
View ArticleHappy 250th USA!
The United States of America is 250 years old! Which makes it not quite as old as this TLCB Writer’s church. Still, a quarter of a millennium is worth a party, and what better way to do that than by...
View ArticleCrossing the Atlantic
Jean Bugatti’s personal Type 57SC Atlantic mysteriously disappeared almost a century ago. Estimated to be worth $100 million today if found, it’s one of just four Atlantics created by Bugatti in the...
View ArticleBiking Through the Stars
It is just over a year since racing car building legend and TLCB Master MOCer Luca Rusconi (aka RoscoPC) tragically died in a motorcycle accident. His works remain amongst the finest that this site...
View ArticleSpecial-K
Kei trucks are not renowned for their performance. Smallness yes. Speed no. But what if you fitted a twin-turbo engine in the entirety of the bed?… Well Flickr’s Sergio Batista has answered that...
View ArticleIt Was a Good Day
I gotta go ’cause I got me a drop-topAnd if I hit the switch, I can make the ass dropCube’s Impala is the base Sergio Batista’s even added his faceLow ‘n slow wins the race Chrome bricks, printed rims...
View ArticleTwingo
After years of vehicular misery the French auto industry is finally re-finding its mojo. Back in the mid-’90s though, Renault couldn’t stop making hits. One was this, the wonderful Twingo, which –...
View ArticleThe Fastest Car is a Rental
The WEC’s Hypercar class is booming. From years of only a handful of cars there are now almost two-dozen, with more set to join. One of the front-runners is Cadillac, with their V-Series.R run by the...
View ArticleTime for T
It’s T time here at The Lego Car Blog, courtesy of Master MOCer Ralph Savelsberg and these immensely detailed Renault T trucks. In heavy haulage 8×4 and the more usual white 4×2 configurations,...
View ArticleGiant Haystacks
Because we’re weird, we like obscure niche pieces of machinery here at The Lego Car Blog. And they don’t come much more obscurely niche than a trailer specifically built to carry hay bales. It’s an...
View ArticleCosmic Corvettes
Corvettes, like Mustangs, are often driven by people who think their car can spin on the spot. Or fly. Or both. They are mistaken. But not today! Because we have two Corvettes that can do just that....
View ArticleLiquid Hot Magma
No not the morning after a spicy curry, but this; South Korea’s first Le Mans hypercar, the Genesis Magma Racing GMR-001. Built for the burgeoning Hypercar class, the GMR-001 combines an Oreca LMDh...
View ArticleFrom London to Tokyo
In the 2010’s the Japanese Government issued a tender for a new ‘universal design’ taxi for the 2020s. Replacing the disability-unfriendly sedans, the new taxi had to be lower emission, higher...
View ArticleHelping Hand
A few days ago opposite TLCB Towers some hooded gentlemen were struggling to load heavy bags into the back of their van. They were in a real hurry and an alarm was going off nearby which added to...
View ArticleStriped Snake
We suspect the engineers of the Dodge Viper and The Lego Car Blog Elves have much in common. Hopefully not in the way they look or smell, but if you were to ask the Elves to design a car, it’d...
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