From one beautiful classic car to another, only this one isn’t real. But gosh we wish it were.
Created by Flickr’s SHARPSPEED, this gorgeous classic coupe has notes of Corvette, Volvo P1800, E-Type, Aston Martin, and many others, with our particular favourite elements being the conical rear lights and ice-skate grille.
There’s more to see at SHARPSPEED’s photostream and you can take a look via the link.
Exactly half-way between the death of King Edward VII and Salad Fingers came this, the glorious 1957 Jaguar D-Type.
Launched in 1955 the D-Type was specifically designed to win the Le Mans 24 Hours, with a 3.4 litre straight-six and a host of aeronautical inspired innovations – most notably the tail-fin to provide stability for the (then un-chicaned) Mulsanne Straight.
The result was an outright win in ‘55, ‘56, and most dominantly in ‘57, when 250,000 spectators watched the D-Type – now with an enlarged 3.8 litre engine – take first, second, third, fourth, and sixth places.
This lovely Speed Champions recreation of the ‘57 Le Mans winner comes from regular bloggee SFH_Bricks, with custom stickers from Brickstickershop and building instructions available too.
There’s more of the model to see at SFH’s photostream, and you can head down the Mulsanne Straight in 1957 via the link above.
LEGO’s extensive partnership with Formula 1 has just added another set the grid! This is the brand new 1,547-piece LEGO Technic 42240 Aston Martin Aramco AMR25 F1 Car.
Despite us currently being a third of the way through the 2026 Formula 1 season, 42240 recreates last year’s Aston Martin mid-field competitor – as piloted by one of the world’s greatest F1 drivers. And Lance Stroll.
Joining the previously revealed championship-winning 42228 McLaren MCL39 F1 Car at the top of the Formula 1 line-up, 42240 matches 42228’s scale (1:8) and technical features, with steering and suspension, a V6 engine with a brick-built ‘electric’ motor, working DRS, and a miserably curtailed two-speed gearbox.
Authentic sponsor decals add accuracy to the AMR25’s appearance, although the standard green parts (which don’t match the real car’s unique hue) and equal-width tyres front and rear do not.
On sale from July 1st, aimed at ages 18+, and expected to cost an enormous $230 / £200 / €230, the 42240 Aston Martin Aramco AMR25 feels like a bit of a rehash, carrying the same limitations as the McLaren MCL39 that preceded it, only being six months late and without that set’s title-winning kudos. Which we suppose means that 42240 does share one attribute with Aston Martin’s current Formula 1 car; it’s pointless.
Sharing a title with that video of your Mom, today’s post is full of meat, because this DAF FAS 2300 DHU truck and twin-axle Jumbo trailer pairing was built for transporting pigs.
Flickr’s Arian Janssens is sending them across the Netherlands in this superb classic truck and trailer combo, and you can await their conversion into various tasty meats via the link above!
We like vehicles that burn liquid dinosaurs here at The Lego Car Blog. But there is a dark side to the Oil Age, and it goes beyond climate change and air quality. Because when the extraction or transportation of oil goes wrong, the consequences are horrific.
This is the Amoco Cadiz, a Liberian-flagged supertanker that was on its way to England in 1978 loaded with crude oil. In rough seas off the coast of France the rudder jammed, and despite concerted efforts to save it the doomed ship grounded on rocks near the village of Portsall.
Battered by the waves, the rocks tore through the hull, breaking the ship into three, and all 230,000 tons of oil leaked into the sea in what was at the time the largest ever spill.
Huge environmental damage was done, with Loic Gilbert recreating the tragedy magnificently in microscale in the diorama here.
Capturing the wrecked Amoco Cadiz, the village of Portsall, and the immense slick of oil covering the French coastline, Loic’s creation is a reminder of the damage mankind’s obsession with oil can do.
There’s more to see at Loic’s photostream and you can join the multi-million dollar clean-up via the link above.
Sometimes a little separation is a good thing. And we have two good things today in the form of these splendid brick-separator-based speeder bikes. Flickr’s Wynd owns the hands behind them and you can separate yourself from this page via the link above.
We’re used to big black Cadillacs, and they’re, um…. not really our bag. Except today, because this is a 1965 Cadillac Coupe DeVille, and it’s all the class a modern Escalade isn’t. Flickr’s gGh0st is its maker and you can take a closer look via the link.
Beige. The colour of hearing aids, old ladies’ bathrooms, and the interior walls of those with no imagination. And also German public transport.
This is a 1970s MAN SD200 double-decker bus, as used across the West German enclave of Berlin before reunification.
Recreated beautifully in Model Team form by the immensely talented Max Richter, this stunning replica of the SD200 captures the classic bus in spectacular detail, particularly inside, which is no doubt the finest bus interior we’ve ever seen built from LEGO bricks.
A range of working features accompany the visual realism, including functioning steering and an ingenious mechanical door operation via an axle that can be inserted into the side.
A detailed engine and opening hatches complete the build, and there’s more to see of this amazingly lifelike Berlin bus on Flickr and on YouTube, where a link to building instructions can also be found.
Click the links above to board a beige bus across Berlin in 1975.
This morning has been somewhat messier than we hoped. A remote control creation was found by one of our Elves, which – as regular readers will know – of course means it was used to run over as many Elves as possible before it inevitably crashed.
Rather annoyingly however, the Elven attrition continued post-crash, because whilst the truck was out of action it was able to jettison the racing car it carried which was also remote controlled. Sigh.
Order has now been restored, the culprit given a Smartie (that’s how it works…), and we can take a look at the creation/s that caused the ruckus.
Built by Technic genius mahjqa, this remotely controlled transporter and racing car duo are a wonderful demonstration of brick-based engineering.
As well as both featuring remote control drive and steering, the racing car includes an oversized V8 engine with working cylinders, whilst the truck is equipped with a clever tilting hook-lift platform, with even cleverer automatic wheel chocks that deploy during the tilt to ensure the racing car doesn’t roll off.
It’s a brilliant solution and you can watch both models in action via the fantastic video below, in which mahjqa also reveals the ingenious Technic camera cars used to capture the footage, plus you can find full details at Eurobricks as well as all the images on Flickr here.
YouTube Video
Well this image composition will be familiar to anyone that works in the car industry…
A group of trendy persons in their twenties, covering all genders and races*, leaning casually against the car that has brought them so much enjoyment during the last 30 second montage.
Ergh, we hate car commercials. Whether a crappy hatchback, a generic crossover of unimaginable blandness, or a sedan greyer than the people that will buy it, they’re all apparently the gateway to a life filled with diversity and excitement. Which is bollocks. You’ll still be boring, just boring with a large monthly finance commitment.
Flickr’s SHARPSPEED is the marketeer behind this particular pitch, and you can transform your life via an economy hatchback on a convenient finance package at the link!
*More racially diverse mini-figures needed SHARPSPEED…
Rumor has it that Toyota is in the final development phase of a new Celica, over two decades after the nameplate was last used. Seven generations of Celica were produced before the model’s demise, with our favourite being this one; the fabulous early-‘90s fifth gen.
Fitted with pop-up headlights and available with a turbocharged all-wheel-drive powertrain, the fifth gen Celica brought Toyota’s championship-winning World Rally Car to the road, and there was little cooler than that.
This brilliant brick-built replica of the Celica GT-Four was discovered by one of our Elves on Flickr, and comes from previous bloggee SP_LINEUP. With phenomenal attention to detail, ingenious building techniques, and accurate 3D-printed wheels, SP’s Celica is fantastically life-like, and you can even create it for yourself. Find out more at SP’s photostream via the link.
It’s been a while since we had a trial truck here at TLCB Towers, but we’re making up for it today. This is Madoca 1977’s Tatra T813 8×8 Kolos, and it’s one of the most capable we’ve seen yet.
Controlled via a Smart Hub, two L Motors drive all eight fully-suspended wheels via planetary reduction, a M Motor drives the steering, whilst another M Motor operates the high/low gearbox.
Madoca’s model also includes a V12 engine, a removable cab, plus opening doors and hatches, with lots more to see at the Eurobricks forum. Click the link above for a closer look.
We’re travelling slowly through Westchester New York today, on a twenty-year-old Orion Industries V (05.505) bus. Over a hundred Orion Vs still operate on Westchester’s ‘Bee-Line’, and are the last not be hybrid or electrically powered.
This Orion V actually is battery powered though, as its maker JLiu15 has equipped it with full motorisation including the drive, steering, and doors.
There’s more of the model to see at JLiu’s ‘2005 Orion V (05.505) Bee-Line Bus’ album on Flickr, and you can take the No. 52 to Bronxville via the link above.
The Lego Car Blog’s home nation has just come last in the Eurovision Song Contest. Again.
Yes the nation of Adele, The Beatles, The Cure, Dire Straits, ELO, Florence & the Machine… and that’s just the first six letters of the alphabet… can’t beat any disposable European electropop.
So to cheer ourselves up we’re heading back seven decades to when the UK could actually beat Europe at something, and this glorious 1951 Talbot-Lago T26 and 1959 Aston Martin DBR1.
The gorgeous Talbot-Lago isn’t British of course but French, and it came second at Le Mans in 1951 to a Jaguar, which supports our patriotic narrative, whilst the DBR1 beat Ferrari to win at Le Mans in 1959.
Each superb Speed Champions creation comes from SFH_Bricks of Flickr, and you can jump back to when Britain could win at something in Europe via the link above.
What’s better than a Lego train? Lots of Lego trains. Aaaaaand that’s the nerdiest sentence we’ve ever written. Still, we do have lots of Lego trains today, courtesy of the Brickshow Baarn 2026 event, the Lowlands L-Gauge Model Train Club (LLMTC), and layout collaborator joopatkleppie.
This beautiful railway diorama was constructed by joopatkleppie and his co-collaborators, and includes a whole range of wonderfully detailed trains, buildings, vehicles and trackside furniture.
There’s lots more of the LLMTC’s fantastic Brickshow Baarn 2026 layout to see at joopatkleppie’s photostream, and you can jump on board via the link above.
