It Ain’t What You Do…
…it’s the way that you do it. After some of the comments about 4-wide cars here at The Lego Car Blog, we thought that we’d better blog one! A great example of doing something creative on a small scale...
View ArticleOh Lord, Won’t You Buy Me…
…a Mercedes Benz. In this case it’s a 180 Ponton, built by nameless_member. It’s been published on Flickr and the wonderfully named German website Imperium der Steine. The car is massive, scaled to...
View Article…My Friends All Drive Porsches
TLCB regular and pro Lemur Tamer, Ralph Savelsberg, has built this rather neat Porsche 911. The car features multiple stud angles and off-sets, flush door hinges, quarter lights on the doors and a...
View ArticleRed Smartie Day
It’s been a lean time for Lego cars on the internet over last few days. Fortunately one of our workers brought this Jaguar E-Type into the luxury editorial suite at TLCB towers today. Red Smarties all...
View ArticleSki Sunday
The leaves are falling here at TLCB Towers and – if the tabloid press are to be believed – it’s going to be the coldest winter, like, ever. But they do seem to say this every year. Anyway, there is a...
View ArticleTow Rod
A tow truck built from a hot rodded ’32 Ford is a gloriously impractical thing, but it’s also – when built by previous bloggee Andrea Lattanzio aka Norton74 – totally, utterly and completely gorgeous....
View ArticleThe Maximum Force of the Future
TLCB Elves only like two types of movies; those with robots, explosions and car chases, and those with Megan Fox in. Handily the Transformers franchise provides them with all of this, but Mad Max is a...
View ArticleGood Things Come in Small Packages II
There’s a neat packaging theme going on today, and our second post takes this towards Alec Issigonis levels of cleverness. TLCB Master MOCer Sheepo has unveiled his latest model, and it’s probably the...
View ArticleEldorado
The painted ladies of the Avalon play in the sun, Take to the road, to the North there lies the chills of cold, To the South there lies the tales untold. But in between there lies the place to close...
View ArticleFrench Fancy
After a decade making rubbish France’s three manufacturers of mass-produced cars have finally re-discovered their joy de vivre. Perhaps none more so than Citroen, who after years of automotive drivel...
View ArticleMechanical Three
BMW’s M3 super-saloon is still one of the best driver’s cars in the world. Over the years the M3 has got bigger, heavier, much more powerful, and much, much faster. But it has also become more...
View ArticleStreaky Bacon
This stripy porker comes from TLCB favourite Greg998, who has added another gorgeous classic racing car to his already impressive stable. His latest model is a recreation of one of the most successful...
View ArticlePretty Red Dress
Volkswagen’s Karmann-Ghia (named after the design studios that created it) may have simply been a Beetle in a pretty dress, but what a dress! The Karmann-Ghia is easily one of the most beautiful cars...
View ArticleClean ‘n Chrome
Is this the nicest Town-scale Lego hot rod ever built? TLCB regular _Tiler is the builder behind it, and you can see more of his absolutely beautiful 1930 Ford Coupe on Flickr at the link above.
View ArticleBaja Boot
With working steering, bouncy independent suspension, a mid-mounted V8 engine, a two-speed transmission and all-wheel-drive, this replica of the 1967 off road racer ‘Baja Boot’ (once owned by...
View ArticleBlack Rat
If Batman were a hot rodder… _Tiler is the builder, and you can see more on Flickr at the link.
View ArticleEnd of the Road
There’s a movie out in cinemas at the moment that all the proper Lego Blogs are talking about, so here’s a post-apoc classic Buick from ‘Mad Max – Fury Road’. Yup, we like to stay on top of current...
View ArticlePretty in Pink
Classic American cars subscribed to the ‘more is more’ approach to design, and the case of this – Ford’s Fairlane Crown Victoria Skyliner – to naming too. This gorgeous Lego version of the classic...
View ArticleBeer Goggles
Alcohol can make anyone look pretty, which is – as many a college student will tell you – a very dangerous thing. Regular bloggee Norton74‘s superb replica of Tom Daniel’s ’67 ‘Beer Wagon’ show rod is...
View ArticleMaximum Madness
There have been three Mad Max movies to date, and with the latest re-ignition of the franchise promising a few more films to come our Elven workforce, whose second love after Megan Fox in Transformers...
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