Trolley Dash
Trollies are much like go-karts. Anyone can drive one, mostly terribly, and the handling can vary wildly depending upon the one you pick. Cue Domininque Boeynaems‘ marvellous fully laden shopping...
View ArticleGoing Dutch
The Dutch get erroneously associated with quite a lot in our home nation. English slang includes ‘going dutch’ (everyone pays), ‘double dutch’ (unintelligible gibberish), dutch oven (farting under the...
View ArticleHumble Beginnings
The Lego Car Blog is a site with humble beginnings. We’re not famous Lego Show exhibitors, Lego User Group leaders, or even upstanding members of the Online Lego Community. Nope, this site was created...
View ArticleBike Carrier
This might be overkill… Still, Sseven Bricks‘ bicycle looks safe and secure being transported by his Kenworth K100 and 40ft Fontaine trailer combo. There’s more of the rig to see, including some more...
View ArticleSchneider Trophy
Just a decade on from the aeroplane’s invention and there were already international races occurring. One of the most famous was the Schneider Trophy, in which teams from across Europe sent their...
View ArticleVice ‘Vette
Things are not always what they seem. And not just in today’s terrifying world of AI, but in decades past too. Because the ‘Ferraris’ used in the famous TV series ‘Miami Vice’ were not actually...
View ArticleQuicky’s T
It’s nearly Easter, when – as is tradition – we remember the Easter Bunny who brought chocolate eggs to all of mankind. Or something. Yay consumerism. Anyway, in celebration here’s an all-year...
View ArticleLe Mans Matra
Matra. The greatest car manufacturer most have never heard of. Formula 1 World Champions, three-time Le Mans Winners, and creators of hugely influential production-car successes like this,...
View ArticleBoxing Clever
The Lego Car Blog Elves have the vehicular tastes of Russian millionaires, favouring vehicles that are fast, loud, and obnoxious. Preferably with rocket launchers attached. We however are… ok, somehow...
View ArticleFlight of the Pterosaur
Uh oh. Sci-Fi. The genre about which we know nothing. Fortunately the creator of this spellbinding ‘Pterosaur Ship’, which to us looks like the beautiful combination of a bat and a dying butterfly,...
View ArticleWooden it be Lovely
All is not what it seems today. Because this lovely Brio-esque wooden train is not a lovely Brio-esque wooden train at all, but a lovely Lego one. Built by Maxx Davidson, this fantastic scaled-up...
View ArticleReady Player 2?
‘Player 1, Player 2, Choose your fighter!’ is the title of this space-based build by bradk918. Although it hasn’t escaped our notice that the starfighters are actually numbered one and three… No...
View ArticleLittle Dump
Sometimes you don’t need a big dump, and a small one will do you just fine. Cue ER0L‘s Peterbilt dump truck, which at only 8-studs wide is indeed rather small. It kinda works though, with both a...
View ArticleAlpine Past
Alpine are back from the dead, with new production cars, a re-badged Renault Formula 1 Team, and re-badged Oreca Le Mans Hypercars. Which is nice and all, but they were cooler the first time round....
View ArticleMario Kart World
There’s a new Mario Kart on the horizon, and even though its pixels are yet to be played by anyone outside of Nintendo, Flickr’s Clement has managed to recreate a trio of characters from the available...
View ArticleBoring in Space
Amazon just sent Katy Perry to the edge of space to promote her new album or something. Which shows we’re pretty close to space travel becoming as banal as flying to Bakersfield for a business...
View ArticleGood Prospects
This enormous floating monolith is – according to its maker Vince_Toulouse – a ‘T8-Prospector’, and it’s magnificent. Whilst we know not what it does, we do know that Bionicle, Galidor, and Duplo...
View ArticleTruckster
Trucks are designed to haul heavy things, rather slowly. So regular bloggee 1saac W. has turned his classic Ford C-Series truck into a dragster, a vehicle capable of hauling nothing at all, very...
View ArticleStreet Fight
Pew! Pew! Bhoooouum! Screeeeeaaanch! An in-depth and comprehensive summary there, of this absolutely phenomenal scene from Flickr’s Carter. A spectacular homage to LEGO’s Exo-Force theme, this is the...
View ArticleUsing Tongue
Lightning McQueen has deployed his tongue to get over the finish line first in Bousker‘s scene from the movie ‘Cars’, which captures the trio of racing protagonists wonderfully. Will McQueen’s tongue...
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