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A Grand Ending
After two decades mucking about in cars, and a global audience of millions, Clarkson, Hammond and May have finally hung up their driving gloves. Well, May has. The others probably didn’t wear them....
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1917
Nowhere has the pace of development through conflict been faster than in early aeronautics. Less than a decade-and-a-half after the first ever powered flight – in which the Wright Brothers climbed...
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Roving Magnificent
This year’s Febrovery is just over half-way through, with interplanetary oddities of all shapes and sizes appearing by the dozen. This one comes from martin.with.bricks, rocking a Neo-Classic Space...
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Unimog For You
LEGO’s fantastic Technic 8110 Mercedes-Benz Unimog set earned a near perfect score when it was reviewed on these pages nearly a decade-and-a-half ago. Which means that today it’s rather expensive. And...
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Febrovery Special
The Lego Car Blog Elves are well-fed during Febrovery. A huge array of blogworthy spacey vehicular creations are created, earning the Elves many meal tokens, and TLCB Staff much angst, as it’s a...
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Duck Tails*
Ducks have the best tails of any animal. Fact. And yes, we have seen those stripy lemurs (but The Brothers Brick ruined them). Anyway, we love ducks’ tails (and Ducktails*), particularly on a car....
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Bowser’s Castle
On to another ’80s German automotive icon through the medium of vintage cartoon characters, and this – a Mercedes-Benz Unimog U1700L ex-military truck turned into an off-road camper by a man named...
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Botlek Bricks
We like bridges here at The Lego Car Blog, because… well, we’re a bit tragic. But tough – we’re the ones writing this nonsense, so now you have to like them too. This is the Botlek Bridge, a vertical...
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Febrovery Round-Up
It’s the final day of Febrovery, much to the relief of TLCB Staff who are several lightyears outside of their comfort zone. But no matter, because the creations – as with each year’s event – have been...
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Kramping Our Style
This is a MAN TGS Agro truck, and it’s pulling a Krampe KS 950 Off-Road trailer, which can carry (and tip) twenty-five tons of harvested crops. We’re hoping the contents is barley… It evidently...
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Recovering the Satellites*
Plymouth is now consigned to history, a relic of automotive past, never again to see a new wheel turned. The wild bewinged NASCARs, early-’00s oddities, sentient killers, and of course ‘Cudas will...
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The Devil’s Lawnmower
TLCB maintains that farm machinery is the scariest vehicular category there is. Take this Claas Jaguar-900 self-propelled forage harvester, which looks like a cross between the monster from Stranger...
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The Hornsby Steam Crawler…
…sounds like an English pub. Or a magical artefact at Hogwarts. Or a Victorian murderer. Or an unspeakable sex act. But is in fact this bizarre contraption from the 1909; a British steam-powered...
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Gotham is Burning
I know… Isn’t it beautiful? Arthur Fleck, riding in a 1977 Dodge Monaco police car, stares out of the window in wonder at the disorder he has sparked. Flickr’s _Tiler has captured the moment that...
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Trailer Park
This TLCB Writer is from age of the VHS tape, when you had to hold down the fast-forward button to skip half-an-hour of trailers before you could watch the Disney movie your grandparents had actually...
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The Other Donald
The news is currently filled with the economic shenanigans of a certain orange President, including the sudden announcement that – from next week – the cost of all cars not made in the U.S (as well as...
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Space to Move
Need to move your out-of-atmosphere ship across the planetary surface? Then Thomas of Tortuga has the vehicle for you! Capable of carrying ships like this Border Integrity Corvette, the Morvin...
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Mr. T
Bicycle wheels, a Fabuland middle, and a flag for a scarf. It’s the little pieces that make the whole, and there’s more to see of _Tiler‘s wonderfully presented Ford Model-T here.
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Whatta Man
“How many wheels would you like your truck to have sir?” “…All of them.” Flickr’s Ralph Savelsberg has taken a similar approach to your Mom at the all-you-can-eat buffet with his wheel quantity, with...
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What Bike?
Sometimes the transporter is cooler than thing it transports. Cue RGB900‘s wildly modified Ford Econoline pick-up, designed to transport a racing motorbike. But we’re not looking at the bike when the...
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