by thelegocarblogger | Jan 13, 2025 | The LEGO Car Blog
This TLCB Writer never particularly liked the McLaren Mercedes SLR. It looked like some kind of sad deep-sea fish. But no matter, because if you do like Mercedes-Benz’s mid-’00s collaboration with their then Formula 1 partner McLaren, previous bloggee Fabrice...
by thelegocarblogger | Jan 11, 2025 | The LEGO Car Blog
Almost entirely known for their cars and pickups, Ford also once made aircraft. The 1930s Ford Tri-Motor was much admired, with around 200 built for civilian and military use before the Second World War. It was also the aircraft of choice for Indiana Jones’...
by thelegocarblogger | Jan 11, 2025 | The LEGO Car Blog
We’ve all designed our dream hypercar in our heads. Well, TLCB Staff have. Anyway, Eurobricks’ Sebeus I has turned his dream hypercar into reality (kinda), by building this extraordinarily thoroughly thought-out creation, entitled simply ‘Hypercar’. The techniques to...
by thelegocarblogger | Jan 11, 2025 | The LEGO Car Blog
This superbly-liveried rhubarb-and-custard DAF XG was discovered by one of our Elves on Flickr, and comes from regular bloggee Ralph Savelsberg (aka Mad Physicist), who has recreated one of the real trucks used British agricultural haulage firm ‘Manners’. Only...
by thelegocarblogger | Jan 10, 2025 | The LEGO Car Blog
The Trabant 601 may not have seemed a formidable police car, but seeing as most of the East German population would have had, at best, their own Trabant 601, and more likely a crappy motorcycle or a pushbike, it was probably a sufficient deterrent. Perhaps less so by...
by thelegocarblogger | Jan 10, 2025 | The LEGO Car Blog
This time of year it seems every advert is for a holiday. Even the ones here at The Lego Car Blog have switched to promoting trips to sunnier climes. Which is sadly of no relevance to this TLCB Writer, what with this gig paying the square root of nothing. However he...