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.
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.
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…
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.
Exactly half way between the Russian Revolution and Zane Malik leaving One Direction came this, the Ford Transit Mark 1.
Using components from Ford Europe’s cars, but with a wider track than existing vans to enable more cargo space, the Transit was a revelation, and it quickly became not just the best selling van of all time, but a synonym for the word ‘van’ itself.
This lovely Speed Champions scale version of the mid-‘60s Transit comes from regular bloggee Sseven Bricks, who has captured the transport icon beautifully.
Clever details and custom decals add to the realism and you can transit to Sseven’s photostream for a closer look at his classic Ford via the link above.
It’s just like Rock-Paper-Scissors, except Tank smushes Horse, Horse kicks Rock, and Rock explodes Tank. At least according to ‘Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade’.
Don’t worry, they didn’t smush a horse, but the tank was defeated by a rock deftly placed by the titular hero.
Recreating that iconic movie scene is Viktor Faldt, who has recreated the (fictional) Nazi tank complete with a detailed interior and engine, rotating guns, a mini-figure crew, plus Indiana Jones, a horse, and a rock.
There’s more to see at Viktor’s photostream and you can join the game of Rock-Horse-Tank via the link above.
Exactly half way between the Second Boer War and the iPhone 11 came this, the Cadillac Eldorado ‘Woodie’. Although perhaps it never really existed at all, as the imagery available today seems to be more of a Hot Wheels toy than a real car.
Whether a genuine vehicle or not, the ‘59 Eldorado station wagon looks unarguably fantastic though, with this tremendous brick-built version capturing the Hot Wheels toy beautifully, complete with its surfboards protruding from the rear. 1saac W. is its maker and you can take a closer look on Flickr via the link.
‘Pink Missile’ can refer to recent Iranian military propaganda, what this TLCB Writer calls his, um… nevermind, or – in this case – a battered twin-turbocharged Nissan 240SX drift pig.
Built by Sergio Batista, this Speed Champions scale drift weapon includes pop-up lights, a roll-cage and bucket seats, mis-matched body panels, and a highly detailed twin-turbo engine that definitely wouldn’t fit under the missing hood.
There’s more to see at both Flickr and Eurobricks and you slide in the pink via the links!
This TLCB writer always found it strange that American taxis used to be ginormous V8 sedans. Threading through congested city streets, the only thing lower than miles-per-hour was the miles-per-gallon.
Today’s far more efficient hybrids and EVs make much more sense, but they do somehow seem less… American than the V8 barges that preceded them.
Cue Sseven Bricks’ fabulous ‘75 Plymouth Fury taxi, which captures the spirit of the lost cabs beautifully. There’s more to see on Flickr, and you can hail a ridiculously inefficient ride via the link.
*Today’s absolutely lovely title song.
Well this is a cute microscale steam train chuffing past a forest lake. But there’s more than meets the eye with jarekwally’s diorama. Go on a journey via the link above to see where it takes you…
John O’Neill has a long one. This brilliantly detailed replica of a real-world truck comes from Ralph Savelsberg, who has recreated Irish heavy hauler John O’Neill’s rare Renault T 8×4 and Dennison 3-axle trailer.
Ralph’s model includes the real truck’s fold-out crane and working stabiliser legs as well as its fetching livery, and you can take a look on Flickr via the link.
Much like when your Mom sits at one end of a picnic bench and someone else has to quickly sit at the other so it doesn’t cartwheel across the park, cranes need a counterweight. Cue this excellent Mercedes-Benz Actros MP4 truck, pulling a huge Nooteboom OVB-95-07 trailer.
Those big boxes on the Nooteboom are crane ballast, and they are very heavy indeed. As they need to be, because the crane boom’s length multiplies the effect of the load it’s lifting.
This ballast transport comes from Keko007 of Flickr, accompanying his recently recently featured Liebherr crane, and there’s much more to see at his ‘Mercedes Actros MP4 6×8 & Nooteboom OVB-95-07 Ballast Trailer’ album on Flickr. Head there now via the link above – just make sure someone else sits down on the picnic bench before you get up…