Bionicle is Back! It Still Sucks.
The LEGO Group is bringing Bionicle back for 2015! And here at The Lego Car Blog we could not be less enthusiastic about this fact. It’s safe to say we care as much about Bionicle MOCs as we do about...
View ArticleGroup B
After nailing* a sci-fi post yesterday we’re back to what we know; cars. These two will be instantly recognisable to many of you, they are of course the legendary Audi Quattro S2 and Lancia Delta S4...
View ArticleVanbulance
Uh oh. Our previous post today didn’t end well. Luckily Lego-vehicle-building legend Lino M has recreated real-vehicle-building legend Tom Daniels’ 1974 show rod ‘Vanbulance’, enabling us to patch up...
View ArticlePre-Piano
As viewers of BBC’s Top Gear will know, the Morris Marina is fit only for death-by-piano. But what you may not know is that the Morris Marina wasn’t actually that terrible. Underneath it was in fact a...
View ArticleDanananana….
It’s the end of SHIPtember in the online Lego Community and Flickr is awash with giant spaceships that we – being a car blog – don’t really understand. So whilst the proper blogs get busy with the...
View ArticleClassic Nomadic
Based on LEGO’s own Miniland 1957 Chevrolet, Nate Andrews makes his TLCB debut with his brilliantly reworked Nomad version of the American classic. An unusual car in 1950s America, the Nomad offered...
View ArticleSeventies Sensation
This is one of the greatest rally cars ever made. It won the World Rally Championship in 1974, ’75 and ’76 – dominating the sport before the arrival of all-wheel-drive – and it featured an engine...
View ArticleGold Dust
One of the most beautifully built and photographed creations of the year, Biczzz‘ gorgeous hot rod ‘Gold Dust’ is available to view in a huge gallery on Flickr. Click the link above to see all of the...
View ArticleStart Up the Brickingham!
Proving you don’t need a huge pile of bricks to make something great is Joao Campos and his lovely fictional ‘TR-14 Brickingham’ roadster. Joao hasn’t used many pieces, but the ones he has are...
View ArticleIconic
Newcomer Paul Kim makes his TLCB debut with his wonderful replica of Icon’s Ford Bronco. The geniuses at the Icon resto-modifying company take classic American 4x4s and refit them for the modern...
View ArticleRussian Roulette
After struggling to find any cars for the past few days one of the Elves has hit an automative jackpot; previous bloggee Harry Gravett has published no less than seven TVR sports cars in one go to...
View ArticleHippies on Ice
Dude! We like, totally need to tie-dye some warmer threads if we’re going to take a trip in this Vee-Dub. Andrea Lattanzi aka Norton74 has transformed Volkwagen’s faithful T1 Transporter van into...
View ArticlePlay Your Cars Right
From the A-Team to Only Fools and Horses, 1980s television created some utterly brilliant cult shows. ‘Play Your Cards Right’ was not one of them – a game show in which contestants play a simple card...
View ArticlePint of Poison
Because Halloween! Nathan Proudlove gives lime green Lego a rare appearance with his lurid Ford Pinto van, a vehicle famed for being a little bit rubbish most of the time, and quite a lot deadly when...
View ArticlePoison Ivy
Another day, another Elf, and another MOC to bring you. This 5-wide named ‘Poison Ivy’ is the work of Flickr’s Vinny Turbo, and you can see more here.
View ArticleSing Like a Canary
The Elves, still on the hunt for scary Lego cars this Halloween, have discovered one of the scariest. The 1970s-1980s Porsche 911 might not look fearsome, but it’s responsible for more brown-stained...
View ArticleDirty Datsun
Lego is designed to be used. Chewed. Dropped down the stairs. And, in this case, rally-driven through autumnal woods. VKTechnic is the builder, the 1970 Safari Rally winning Datsun 1600 is the car,...
View ArticleRocket
Back in the early post-war decades America made some cracking cars. This was one of them, the beautiful Oldsmobile ’88’ Rocket Coupe. This great recreation of the classic V8 is the work of Flickr’s...
View ArticleSeventies Celica
Classic Japanese cars have become very cool lately. Probably because most have oxidised beyond the point of no return, and thus they are now quite rare beasts. This one is a 1974 Toyota Celica, from...
View ArticleCaped Crusader
Much as we love the Batman Dark Knight trilogy, comic book fans we are not. However, if we were writing this back in the early 1940s we likely would have been, as without the internet (and probably...
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