Station Wagon Appreciation Society
It wasn’t that long ago that we were mocking giant American station wagons. Now though, deep in the era of endless identical electric crossovers, we yearn for them. And this TLCB writer is literally...
View ArticleFlying Buttress
The Jaguar XJS is a rare sight these days (away from the banger track at least), and as a result is looking ever more beautiful, especially from this angle. Those are ‘flying buttresses’ and – as is...
View ArticlePast Master
TLCB staff do not like the modern Volkswagen Golf GTI. Too heavy, too powerful, too expensive, too automatic, and with cabin controls that even VW themselves acknowledge are total crap, what with them...
View ArticleThe Streets of San Francisco
Is there anything more 1970s than a brown police car crashing through some gratuitously placed boxes? Of course not, and Flickr’s SvenJ. takes us straight to ‘The Streets of San Francisco’ with this...
View ArticleSupernova
Some cars are just cool. And this is one of them, the tremendous 1969 Chevrolet Nova SS, equipped with a near 400bhp V8 and – in the case of PleaseYesPlease’s brick-built example – dropped to the floor...
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 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 ArticleNomadic Lifestyle
It’s funny how words change over time. What once meant herding livestock across the Mongolian steppe, living in a tent and drinking yaks milk, now means sitting on a beach in Bali selling crap digital...
View ArticleDon’t Tell Ferrari’s Lawyers
A pen has just been dropped by a grey-suited lawyer in Maranello. He looks up. He can sense something is wrong. Somewhere, someone has used the F-word without his permission. Ferrari do not like it...
View ArticleLEGO Icons 11381 Jaguar E-Type | Set Preview
Jaguar don’t actually make anything at the moment. Which means that if they and LEGO wish to continue their partnership they’ll need to look backwards. And look back they have, to – in the words of...
View ArticleSuper Nova
Here in TLCB’s home nation we know the ‘Nova’ as an early-‘80s to early-‘90s supermini that was everywhere, and then nowhere, as rust and neglect killed – like all ‘80s economy cars – almost every last...
View ArticleGet Your Skates On
From one beautiful classic car to another, only this one isn’t real. But gosh we wish it were. Created by Flickr’s SHARPSPEED, this gorgeous classic coupe has notes of Corvette, Volvo P1800, E-Type,...
View ArticleD-Cup
Exactly half-way between the death of King Edward VII and Salad Fingers came this, the glorious 1957 Jaguar D-Type. Launched in 1955 the D-Type was specifically designed to win the Le Mans 24 Hours,...
View ArticleBetter the DeVille
We’re used to big black Cadillacs, and they’re, um…. not really our bag. Except today, because this is a 1965 Cadillac Coupe DeVille, and it’s all the class a modern Escalade isn’t. Flickr’s gGh0st is...
View ArticleEurovision
The Lego Car Blog’s home nation has just come last in the Eurovision Song Contest. Again. Yes the nation of Adele, The Beatles, The Cure, Dire Straits, ELO, Florence & the Machine… and that’s just...
View ArticleWood n’ Wax
Exactly half way between the Second Boer War and the iPhone 11 came this, the Cadillac Eldorado ‘Woodie’. Although perhaps it never really existed at all, as the imagery available today seems to be...
View ArticleI Ain’t Afraid of No Ghost
The Lego Car Blog Elves are very happy today, seeing as they’re in their cage room watching Ghostbusters on an old TV. They (and we – because it’s very peaceful) have Flickr’s Alex Jones to thank, and...
View ArticleOld Money
We’re feeling so fancy today. This is a Bentley Mulsanne / Turbo R, and as we type this from TLCB Executive Washroom & Sauna, luxuriating in our blogging riches, we can think of few places we’d...
View ArticleBig Yellow Taxi*
This TLCB writer always found it strange that American taxis used to be ginormous V8 sedans. Threading through congested city streets, the only thing lower than miles-per-hour was the miles-per-gallon....
View ArticleGreen Gran
We’re still in classic car territory here at The Lego Car Blog, which is fine by us; anything from years past is preferable to whatever Chinese electric crossover has been revealed in the last ten...
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