by thelegocarblogger | May 5, 2023 | The LEGO Car Blog
Mid-’90s endurance racing was – in this writer’s opinion – the peak of Le Mans cool. Purpose-built racers competed on equal terms wildly fast supercars, based on those that could actually be bought by the public (in some years they even had to have space for luggage...
by thelegocarblogger | May 2, 2023 | The LEGO Car Blog
If you’re seven, or a TLCB Elf, then this post is for you. This is Tim Inman‘s Chevy Nova, only it isn’t quite as per the cars that left the Chevrolet factory in 1963. Inspired by the German DTM racing series, Tim has outfitted his Nova with a wild aero package...
by thelegocarblogger | May 2, 2023 | The LEGO Car Blog
This is a Liebherr LTM 1100-4.2 mobile crane – well, a Lego version obviously – and it comes from Mateusz Mikołajczyk, making their TLCB debut with one of the most highly-detailed small-scale creations of the year so far. Despite being only roughly Town-scale,...
by thelegocarblogger | Apr 29, 2023 | The LEGO Car Blog
You wait ages for a reimagining of a long-forgotten phallically-symboled LEGO theme and then two come along at once. Yes we have another Rock Raiders redux today, with this one coming from F@bz of Flickr, who has redesigned the 4970 Chrome Crusher set and added a...
by thelegocarblogger | Apr 28, 2023 | The LEGO Car Blog
This TLCB Writer would very much like an FJ40 series Toyota Land Cruiser. Because if there’s one classic off-roader cooler than the Land Rover Defenders we see every day around TLCB Towers, Japan’s answer is it. With LEGO now having a licensing partnership with Toyota...
by thelegocarblogger | Apr 24, 2023 | The LEGO Car Blog
The most Germanic of German cars is – these days – African. Nearly two million Mercedes-Benz W114 and W115s were built during the 1970s, with countless numbers registered as taxis across Germany. Painted in mandatory primrose yellow, they covered hundreds of thousands...