Go Ape

Go Ape

by | Mar 14, 2025 | The LEGO Car Blog

We love slow, strange, European oddities here at The Lego Car Blog. Probably because we are one. This is one such curiosity, the Piaggio Ape, depicted here in MP-600 form. ‘MP’ stood for ‘Motore Posteriore’ (rear engine), whilst ‘600’ denoted the 600bhp it produced....
The Hornsby Steam Crawler…

The Hornsby Steam Crawler…

by | Mar 12, 2025 | The LEGO Car Blog

…sounds like an English pub. Or a magical artefact at Hogwarts. Or a Victorian murderer. Or an unspeakable sex act. But is in fact this bizarre contraption from the 1909; a British steam-powered chain-track tractor that worked in the wilds of Canada where gas was...

Arabian Nights

by | Mar 12, 2025 | The LEGO Car Blog

Truck drivers travel a looong way. Few however, travelled quite so far as those on the overland haulage route from Europe to the Middle East. Crossing more than a dozen countries and over 4,000 miles, trucks such as this ‘Rynart’-operated Scania LB141 journeyed from...
Trash Talk

Trash Talk

by | Mar 10, 2025 | The LEGO Car Blog

Humans make a lot of trash. In the United States alone, 146 million tons of waste goes into landfill every year, including two-thirds of all recyclable material. Sigh. Strangely, considering almost 50 million people in America go hungry due to poverty, the biggest...

Big Fifty

by | Mar 10, 2025 | The LEGO Car Blog

Turning fifty is a big occasion, and especially so for today’s birthday boy. Yes Big Foot, the original car-crushing monster truck, is half-a-century old! This spectacular brick-built replica of the Ford F-250-based colossus is the work of Orion Pax aka Alex Jones (no...