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Flight of the Fascists
This beautiful aircraft is a CANT Z.506 Airone floatplane, one of the fastest, most-advanced, and highest flying aircraft of the 1930s. Powered by three Alfa Romeo radial engines, the Z.506 was first...
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Galactic Thievery
If there’s one thing we pride ourselves on at The Lego Car Blog, it’s beating The Brothers Brick to publishing creations. OK, that and ‘Your Mom’ jokes. Two things*. Cue much Elven shuffling at...
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2000GT
In this writer’s opinion, the most beautiful car ever made is not a Ferrari, Bugatti, or other exotic… it’s a Toyota. A white one. This is the 2000GT, Toyota’s record-setting 1967 sports car built in...
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Carry the Wind
Wind turbines are massive, able to service a whole community, and difficult to move. Just like your Mom. But they are also vital for a de-carbonised future, which means we need a lot more of them...
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Honey I Shrunk the 10317
LEGO’s brilliant new 10317 Icons Land Rover Defender 90 set is one of the coolest looking Technic sets in ages. However, it’s also $240, which is some way outside of pocket-money attainability....
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Fly-Bi
This fictional First World War era biplane was discovered by one of our Elves on Flickr, and you can practically hear the rush of the propellor. Kirill Simerzin is the builder and you can take the...
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Cougar Town
The station wagon (or ‘estate’ to our European readers) is all but dead in the United States. The unstoppable rise of the SUV has meant literally every car now has the same shape, but back in the late...
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100 Ans du Mans
The world’s greatest motor race celebrates its century this weekend. Founded in 1923 on a public road loop around the village of Le Mans, a route that would later become today’s ‘Circuit de la...
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Shelby GT350 | Picture Special
LEGO’s Speed Champions range has brought some fantastic replicas of awesome real-world cars into pocket-money brick-built attainability. And a Lamborghini Urus. LEGO also recently increased the scale...
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Wreck-It Ralph
This impressive looking rotator wrecker tow-truck was discovered by one of our Elves on Flickr. It comes from regular bloggee Ralph Savelsberg (aka Mad Physicist), who is usually found building models...
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Greener Beemer
The seventies has some wild colours. And brown. Mostly brown in fact, but no matter, because this super-slammed ’70s BMW 2002 tii is gloriously green. PleaseYesPlease is the builder and you can see...
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Brickin’ Baja
One of the coolest liveries in motorsport has got to be Toyota’s diagonal sunset-coloured TRD striping. Seemingly unchanged since the ’80s, said livery has appeared on everything from NASCARs to Baja...
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Black Box
A few months ago the coolest car we’ve ever published appeared on this page. A mildly modified Volvo 242 Coupe, it was everything we could want in a 1980s Volvo. Except of course, to be a proper 1980s...
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Pre-Revolutionary Travel
This is a Russo-Balt C24/40, one the Russian Empire’s earliest cars, originally founded in Riga (now in Latvia) before production moved to St Petersburg. Funded by Germany, designed by a Swiss...
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And it was all Yellow*
Look at this van It’s not one shade nor hue Quite a thing to do Built in mostly yellow 1saac W Decided old not new Patina’s right on cue Varied types of yellow So click the link above To show this...
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Keep it Simple
We are not a complex, multi-facited bunch here at The Lego Car Blog. In fact we’re a bit crude, and rather unsophisticated. Which might be why we like the Jeep CJ2, and Jonathan Elliott‘s excellent...
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Lipstick Lights
The parts designers at the LEGO Company have been making increasingly intricate and bespoke pieces in recent years. One of the parts seemingly most dedicated to a singular purpose is the mini-figure...
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Insert Giant Shiny Meathead
Both phenomenally successful and awful in equal measure, the ‘Fast & Furious’ franchise shows no signs of taking its foot off the gas. Dom’s Dodge Charger from the aforementioned cinema skid-mark...
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It’s 106 miles to Chicago…
…we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark… and we’re wearing sunglasses. Delightfully over-the-top, loud, and perhaps lacking some substance, the 1974 Dodge Monaco ‘Bluesmobile’...
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Absolutely Trolleyed
If someone is British, posh, and drunk*, they may well be ‘trolleyed’ (amongst an almost unlimited array of other verbs). Cue a tenuous link to this ‘Wickham Trolley’, a petrol-powered railway...
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