We’re sticking with classic cars today, and this lovely Speed Champions 1958 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa, that won Le Mans in the hands of Phil Hill and Oliver Gendebien.
Created by SFH_Bricks, this beautifully presented model captures the iconic Ferrari racer superbly, and you can join Hill and Gendebien in France in ‘58 via the link.
That utter cringefest of toxic positivity, humble bragging, and ridiculous self-promotion, LinkedIn, is overflowing with meaningless posts about AI and ‘The Cloud’.
Nothing we write can adequately convey just how much we don’t care about your humble receipt of the Cloud Networking Award at the 2026 Delaware CAICP2 Conference, nor how the leaders of tomorrow are forging the future via cloud-based software to realise efficiencies and business automation.
If we’re going to be ‘In the Cloud’ we’d like it to be one of these, the stupendous Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.
Powered by a 6.2 litre V8, weighing over two tons, and fitted with power steering and electric windows, the Silver Cloud was nothing short of the finest automobile in the world in the early-‘60s.
Cue this wonderful recreation of the 1960 Silver Cloud II by previous bloggee SP_LINEUP, who has replicated it in brick form beautifully. A range of clever techniques capture the Cloud’s coach-built bodywork and detailing (including the famous Spirit of Ecstacy), with a closer look available at SP’s photostream. Get In the Cloud via the link above. And LinkedIn sucks.
It’s 1970, and northern France is being pounded by heavy rain. Of the dozens of starters at that year’s Le Mans 24 Hours, only seven remain. The leading three are built by a manufacturer that has never won the race before. Richard Attwood and Hans Herrmann’s Porsche Salzburg 917K crosses the finish line five laps ahead of the rest, beginning a run that to date includes nineteen outright wins, making Porsche the most successful manufacturer in Le Mans history.
This fantastic Speed Champions homage to that first victory comes from SFH_Bricks of Flickr, whose Porsche Salzburg 917K includes a tremendous replica livery courtesy of Brickstickershop. Building instructions are available and you can head to a soaking Circuit de la Sarthe fifty-six years ago via the link above.
Along with cyberpunk and melon as a starter, we really don’t understand sci-fi. And that’s why, in our minds, pretty much all spaceships go ‘pew-pew!’. Except today, because this one goes ‘PEW-PEW’. Probably. It’s beefy.
That beef begins with two LEGO City cement mixer drum pieces on either side, whilst a Second World War bomber-like gun turret provides the ‘pew’-ing. Sorry, ‘PEW’-ing.
Flickr’s Thomas Jenkins is the builder behind it and you can join him for some beef pew at his photostream. Click the link above for a taste, or wait for a proper Lego site to blog this without referring to a bovine based broth.
Things TLCB doesn’t understand; Star Trek. Pugs. Melon as a starter. Trap music. Marvel. Cyberpunk.
Which means we’re rather out of our depth here with these two cyberpunk Nissan Skylines of different vintages, and thus our only commentary is ‘don’t they look cool!’.
Flickr’s Sergio Batista owns the cyberpunk pairing and you can take a closer look at each neon Nissan at his photostream via the link above. And seriously, how is melon as a starter acceptable?
TLCB’s home nation likes a neatly painted truck. Most trucks are still plain white of course, but many firms go the extra mile with their visual identity, painting their vehicles in beautiful colours that hark back to the days of horse-drawn carts, canal boats, and traction engines. This is one such truck, a Volvo FH12 operated by Newis heavy haulage and constructed superbly by Flickr’s Ralph Savelsberg. There’s more to see at Ralph’s photostream and you get your brushes out via the link above.
Tightly-whiteys, budgie smugglers, keggs, chuddies… You’ll have to ask David Roberts why he’s designed a spaceship to look like a giant pair of undercrackers, but if you do, please also ask him why he didn’t build this in white. Perhaps with a brown streak at the rear. A missed opportunity David…
This is a Liebherr LTM mobile crane, and it shows that sometimes small-scale building isn’t actually small at all.
Built by Flickr’s Keko007, this Liebherr can get really very large indeed, thanks to a three stage elevating boom with a working winch. There’s also four-axle steering, functional outriggers, and a tilting control cab, and you see lots more of Keko’s surprisingly large erection at his ‘Liebherr LTM 1230-5’ album via the link above.
It’s been a while since TLCB Elves watched 2015’s ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’. They are all happily watching the automotive carnage today though, thanks to one of their number finding this excellent rendition of ‘Nux’s car from the movie.
What was once a 1934 Chevrolet 5-Window Coupe is now a desert-running hot rod, complete with nitrous oxide injection, human ear window decoration, and a stand for a living human hood ornament.
This excellent Speed Champions version comes from Flickr’s Eero Okkonen, who captures it brilliantly (omitted human ears and hood ornament notwithstanding), and you can ride into Valhalla all shiny and new via the link above!
Star Wars’ Rebel Alliance, much like Mercedes-Benz, name their products based on ‘Sesame Street’s Letter of the Day.
Thus today we have an H-Wing, so called because it looks almost nothing like an H. But it does look cool, which is why it’s here, and you can see more courtesy of Thomas Jenkins via the link.
“I’m tellin’ you man! I saw it with my own eyes – hovering in the sky like an… uh, I don’t even know what. But it was right over there! And I ain’t even started drinkin’ yet!”
Grab your ‘Welcome to Earth!’ sign and head to the location of the definite sighting with Grant Decker via the link!
It’s 1973, the US President is engulfed in scandal, and the US are supporting an Israeli war in the Middle East causing a global energy crisis. Thank goodness things like that don’t happen now…
Anyway, back to ‘73 and this, the gorgeous ‘C3’ generation Chevrolet Corvette Stingray.
Surely one of best American car designs of all time, this C3 Corvette comes from Ciamoslaw Ciamek, who has captured it brilliantly in Speed Champions form.
Building instructions are available and there’s more to see at Cismoslaw’s photostream. Click the link above and head back to an era with no similarities to today whatsoever…
It’s a Porsche sort of day here at TLCB, with two more joining the prior proper Porsche.
These two Speed Champions Porsches come from their endurance stable, bookending it across half a century.
Built by previous bloggee SFH_Bricks, there’s more to see of the 1975 917KH and 2025 963RSP on Flickr, and you can take a closer look via the link above.
Italian lifestyle brand and occasional car maker Ferrari are rather enthusiastically legalistic. Even if you legitimately buy one of their products and decide to have some fun with the badges (as electronic music producer Deadmau5 knows), they’ll send you a letter threatening court action. Because you modified your car. Something to do with brand protection apparently, which is a bit rich considering all the tat they sell with their logo on.
All of which means Flickr’s Sharpspeed can probably expect a call from Ferrari’s lawyers, because his Speed Champions ‘Montichiari’ looks almost exactly like a Ferrari Daytona. That is to say, really good.
There’s more of the ‘Montichiari’ to see at his photostream via the link above so take a look before Ferrari get it removed.
The coolest way to travel is – and there’s no argument here – by seaplane. You taxi through sparkling waters, the engine roars, and the thumping of the hull on the waves suddenly becomes total serene smoothness. You look down below to the retreating ocean, now dotted with islands and boats, as you travel to a place that you know can only be at least as beautiful as the one you’ve just left. Yeah… we want to join Eero Okkonen‘s ‘Seaplane Association’, whose utterly gorgeous pavilion stands atop a rocky pinnacle with its aircraft waiting beneath it. Join us in enquiring about membership via the link in the text above.
