Fresh Donuts
2023 sadly saw the loss of one of the motoring world’s greats, when Ken Block was killed at the start of the year, when his snowmobile landed atop him. One of the founders of DC Shoes, Ken raced in...
View ArticlePair of Martins
The Lego Car Blog Elves, fed only when they find a blog-worthy creation, could be called ‘competitive’. By which we mean they’re willing to use Max Verstappen levels of ruthlessness to win. This...
View ArticleWhere’s Buffy?
We’ve not seen the TV show ‘Supernatural’. It sounds like ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’, only without Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And we only watched that show for, well… Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Still,...
View Article500 Green Bottles…
Here at The Lego Car Blog we do not understand America’s obsession with enormous pick-up trucks. Seemingly used to carry only an American flag, a ‘MAGA’ bumper sticker, and an anti-vaxxer in denial of...
View ArticleBananas for B-Pillars
We kick-off 2024 with an example of why LEGO is such a good toy… er, we mean highly sophisticated interlocking brick system. Cue Jonathan Elliott‘s superb Speed Champions scale Lamborghini Countach,...
View ArticleGassed-Up
This is the ‘Blasphemi’, a 1955 Chevrolet ‘gasser’ drag racer run in MotorTrend’s ‘Roadkill’ video series. Beautifully built in Lego form and perfectly presented, _Tiler‘s homage to Roadkill’s famous...
View ArticleMy Other Car’s a Truck
LEGO’s 10290 Creator Expert Pickup Truck set has spawned several excellent alternates thus far, and today we have another. Built by FanisLego, 825 of the original set’s 1,677 pieces have been...
View ArticleGreen Goddess
Citroen, makers of a dreary line-up of unimaginatively titled crossovers, were once something rather more. In fact it could be said that Citroen were once the most innovative car company in the world....
View ArticleBeige Box
Russian exports have taken a bit of a hit since the country decided to invade its neighbour. However Russian products used to be exported to rather more countries than you might expect, including...
View ArticleInsert Balding Divorcee
Whilst the Trans-Am is driven by shady gamblers, the Mustang by jocks who crash almost immediately, and the Challenger by morons, the Corvette has a rather different consumer base. Despite on the face...
View ArticleJesse’s Escape
Breaking Bad, aka The Best Thing That’s Ever Been On Television, nailed its car choices. Walter White’s Aztek, the Fleetwood RV meth lab, Mike Ehrmantraut’s old sedans, Gus Fring’s understated Volvo…...
View ArticleGolfing Blues
This TLCB Writer thinks it must be hard being a golfist. Walking around a boring field with terminally uninteresting people, the requirement to wear stupid trousers at all times, pretending to be a...
View ArticleLittle Red Corvette*
The Lego Car Blog archives are full of Chevrolet Corvettes. From official sets to large scale replicas, Corvettes of every generation have been replicated in LEGO. The C3 iteration, built from 1986 to...
View ArticleThree Horse Race
TLCB Elves are rather fond of Lego Ferraris. Particularly red ones. Which means we have a happy contingent today, because here are no less than three of them. Each is the work of previous bloggee...
View ArticleForever 21
This splendid creation – pictured in front of some equally splendid wallpaper – is a GAZ-21 Volga, a Soviet large sedan produced from the mid-’50s until 1970. The most luxurious car available to...
View ArticleWetter Than an Otter’s Pocket
We all know that James Bond can seduce any woman in less time than it takes to read this sentence. Yup, if you’re a girl (What? We have female readers! Probably…), you’d already be, well.. you know....
View Article…Otherwise We Get Angry!
Or ‘…Altrimenti Ci Arrabbiamo!’ in its original Italian, is a 1974 movie – unwatched by TLCB we must confess – starring the two least Italian-sounding actors we’ve ever heard of. Terence Hill and Bud...
View ArticleMy Other Car’s a Camaro
Bored of your handlebar moustache, wearing leather jackets, and chewing a toothpick in an alley? Then it’s time to cease your Camaro ownership and switch to something far smaller, much lighter, and...
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 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...
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