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Definitely Not a Supercar
The Lego Car Blog isn’t just about hypercars and monster trucks. Nope, we also deal in crummy ’70s French hatchbacks! This one is a Peugeot 104, first released in 1972 and surviving until 1988, by...
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My Other Car’s a Camaro
LEGO’s 10304 Icons Chevrolet Camaro Z28 set has proven a hugely popular source of alternative builds. Half-a-dozen have already reside in our archives, including a Porsche 911, Pontiac Firebird, and...
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Stud Bug
In contrast to this site’s bodged operation and shoe-string budget, TLCB usually publishes models at the exotic end of the vehicular scale. Sleek, powerful, rare… the cars we feature are the opposite...
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LEGO Icons 10337 Lamborghini Countach 5000 Quattrovalvole | Set Preview
The Walkman, the Rubik’s Cube, Breakdancing, the Synthesiser, Big Hair, and Cocaine could all all lay claim to being the most 1980s thing. Here at TLCB however, we think it could well be a white...
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Just One More Thing…
The famous words of TV detective ‘Columbo’, uttered just before his inevitable cracking of the case. Produced throughout the ’70s, and then again in the late ’80s through 1990s, Columbo was (and still...
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Nights in White Sedan*
Exquisitely presented, this gorgeous 5-wide ’50s sedan comes from regular bloggee 1saac W., whose inspired parts choice and stunning photography show that you really don’t need a million pieces to...
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The Road to El Dorado
This is a 1953 Cadillac Eldorado, a humungous (at 5.6 meters long / 2.3 tons) and humungously expensive 2-door luxury convertible, that – in first generation guise – lasted just one year and 500...
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Summer of ’59
As uninspired, dreary and monotonous as American cars have been since the late-’90s, they were spectacular, inventive, and pioneering in the late-’50s. Tail-fins, chrome, and delightful shapes abounded...
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Muppety Relations
Kermit and Miss Piggy might be the world’s most famous puppet-based couple, but the mechanics of their relationship are probably not something upon which to ponder too deeply. Cue this green pig, as...
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My Other Car’s a Chevy
In the 1960s, General Motors were phenomenally adept at spinning different cars from the same platform. Chevrolet, Buick, Oldsmobile, Cadillac, and Pontiac were all successful brands in their own...
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Dedicated Follower of Fashion*
American automotive design was at its most outrageous by the late ’50s. Increasingly wild shapes, jet engine tail lights, and tail-fins half the length of the car were redrawn every two years, with...
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Yeah Baby!
Is there anything more British than a Jaguar E-Type bedecked in Union Flag? OK, maybe tea. Or politely queuing. Or pilfering far-off countries’ antiquities. Or football hooliganism. But other than...
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Two ‘Dogs and a Shake
Sally, you’re a real swell gal [combs hair]. I don’t got no money for a ring yet, but I’m gonna [combs hair]. Every ’50s date seemed to take place in a diner like this. Which is a whole lot better...
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Polishing a Fiat
It might seem like the posts here at The Lego Car Blog are simply a scattergun of whatever the Elves have found that meets our criteria, but no – just look at the seamless and completely...
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Henry’s Got Gas
Here’s one we had to look up. The Henry J was a 50’s American economy car built by the Kaiser-Frazer corporation, named after its founder, and aimed at consumers who – at that point – could only...
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Spooky Chevy
It’s the scariest time of the year, when the night is filled with ghosts and ghouls, it’s OK for children to take sweets from strangers, and girls wear nothing at all for some reason. Cue László...
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Noisy Cricket
Cricket. A gentlemanly game, played largely by standing around a village green for five days, after which sometimes it’s a draw. Still, it unites everyone in hatred of the Australians and it’s...
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Digitally Dinky
Britain’s new car market was once filled with light, nimble, rear-wheel-drive sports cars. Dozens of different models were produced, and there was room for all of them… until the arrival of the hot...
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Why Do Only Fools and Horses Work?
And now for something that every one of our British readers will immediately recognise, the optimistically named Reliant Regal Supervan. Most famously wearing ‘Trotters Independent Trading Co’ livery,...
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The Whole City’s On Fire ‘Cause of What You Did
“I know…. Isn’t in beautiful?” Some men just want to watch the world burn. Previous bloggee _Tiler has one of them in the back of his Gotham City police car. We’re not sure he’ll be there for long…
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