This, Lego car fans, is a real, working, 100% LEGO, fully drivable car.
Snappily titled the ‘superawesomemicroproject’ it’s the product of two men, Australian marketer Steve Sammartino and 20 year-old Romanian engineer Raul Oaida, who built the life-size Lego hot rod using over half a million Blacktron-coloured LEGO pieces.
Their creation is powered by 256 LEGO pistons mounted within four enormous orbital engines fed by compressed air, with only the wheels and loaded components featuring non-LEGO construction.
Funded via crowdsourcing, the superawesomemicroproject has reached speeds of 30km/h with a driver on board and will probably go faster than that, all while built purely from little blocks of Danish plastic.
To read more about this amazing vehicle check out the superawesomemicroproject at Steve and Raul’s website, and watch the incredible video below.
Thanks to Bricknerd who beat us to the punch.
Awesome!
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superawesome in fact.
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its not 100% – metal frame and steering and some sort of clutch and chain for the final drive
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Not 100% lego now is it – metal chassis under there and the steering linkages are metal
the final drive must be chain and sprocket driven with a clutch in there somewhere…
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Hello Mr. Gibclassics
As stated in the article;
“Their creation is powered by 256 LEGO pistons mounted within four enormous orbital engines fed by compressed air, with only the wheels and loaded components featuring non-LEGO construction”.
We would think that the axels and steering rack are indeed likely to be metal.
TLCB Team
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I just love this Lego stuff…In my childhood I usually used to play with Leo cars but this Lego looks amazing & pretty capable also.
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ich würde diesen Lego Pneumatik-Motor gerne nach bauen dafür bräuchte ich einen Bauplan von dem Motor Kann mir Jemand einen Link oder eine E-Mail Schicken?
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