Space Race
It’s sometime in the next century, and Formula 1 is still the world’s foremost race series in the hands of Liberty Media. There are now 43 races each season (not counting the sprints), with half of...
View ArticleDid You Drive Your Car Tonight Mr. Belfort?
It’s the late-’80s, and the Lamborghini’s wild V12-engined Countach is some fifteen years old. Marcello Gandini’s superbly clean lines have been hidden beneath a mountain of plastic, the engine is up...
View ArticleSpace Swordfish
Uh oh, Sci-fi. This TLCB Writer genuinely knows more about oceanic fish than he does science fiction. Helpfully however, this splendid spacecraft by Flickr’s Red Spacecat is apparently a ‘Swordfish’...
View ArticlePut the Sausage in the Hole
Yes, we’re trying to mess with search engines again. This is a Mercedes-Benz LK ‘Rundhauber’ (round bonnet) box truck, and its creator 1saac W. began the build by inserting a LEGO sausage into a 1×1...
View ArticleIncredibile
It’s been twenty years since Disney Pixar’s best ever movie premiered in cinemas. Pre-dating the Marvel Cinematic Universe, all but the first Spiderman film, and about 76 other subsequent superhero...
View ArticleFall in the Forest
It’s nearly summer here in TLCB’s home nation, but somewhere in the world it’s autumn, which is all the excuse we need to publish this gorgeous autumnal scene from regular bloggee 1saac W. 1saac’s...
View Article(Neo-Classic) Spaceship!
Skibidi Toilet, The Brothers Brick secret handshake, the evangelical christian movement’s support of Donald Trump, and sci-fi are just some of the many things that TLCB Team don’t understand. We do...
View Article8-Stud Huayra
LEGO are yet to release a Speed Champions Pagani Huayra, but if they do it’ll have to be quite a set to beat this one. Constructed by Flickr’s Fabrice Larcheveque, this 8-wide homage to the wild...
View ArticleBarrelling Along
Flickr’s David Roberts has appeared here numerous times over the years with his strangely-shaped spaceships, including those based upon a giant block of cheese, a chess board, and a cat’s anus amongst...
View ArticlePorsche vs. Porsche
Le Mans is getting very exciting of late, with a raft of new works teams entering or re-entering the world’s most revered motor race. Lamborghini, BMW, Cadillac and Peugeot have all joined or are...
View ArticleJust One More Thing…
The famous words of TV detective ‘Columbo’, uttered just before his inevitable cracking of the case. Produced throughout the ’70s, and then again in the late ’80s through 1990s, Columbo was (and still...
View ArticleBattle of the Atlantic
This TLCB Writer can think of little more terrifying in the Second World War than being part of an Atlantic Convoy, traversing the frigid waters all the while knowing that death lurked beneath at any...
View ArticleLe Mans ’71
It might be Ferrari and Toyota at the top of endurance racing right now, but there’s one manufacturer that has dominated Le Mans more than any other; Porsche. Winning the Le Mans 24 Hours on nineteen...
View ArticleNot a Car
This is our 47th ‘Not a Car’ post. By which we mean it’s the 47th post titled ‘Not a Car’ – there are thousands more posts in the archives that do not, in fact, feature cars. Because we’re crap at...
View ArticleSécurité Civile
Despite a simmering disdain for one another, France and TLCB’s home nation are more alike than we’d both like to think. Separated by just 21 miles of water, each has just undergone a snap election...
View ArticleNights in White Sedan*
Exquisitely presented, this gorgeous 5-wide ’50s sedan comes from regular bloggee 1saac W., whose inspired parts choice and stunning photography show that you really don’t need a million pieces to...
View ArticleJust Another Mecha Monday
It’s Monday! And this is a mech. Hence the title. TLCB, being universally crap with sci-fi, aren’t able to explain much more about Sylvain Daunais‘ ‘TeamExplorer Neo-Ex-U’ than that, but it is a...
View ArticleThe Road to El Dorado
This is a 1953 Cadillac Eldorado, a humungous (at 5.6 meters long / 2.3 tons) and humungously expensive 2-door luxury convertible, that – in first generation guise – lasted just one year and 500...
View ArticleAdventures Across the Galaxy
We know nothing whatsoever about sci-fi, but nevertheless we do like Classic Space, with it’s perennially-smiling spacemen, assorted research tools, and spaceships that look like a cross between a...
View ArticleFrom Monaco to the Moon
Barely a week goes by without yet another supercar start-up promising to build a brand new supercar, hold their own race series, and go to the moon. Which means of course, that most never build...
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