There’s a movie out in cinemas at the moment that all the proper Lego Blogs are talking about, so here’s a post-apoc classic Buick from ‘Mad Max – Fury Road’. Yup, we like to stay on top of current events here at TLCB…
It’s (probably) our final MOC of 2015, so it’s somewhat fitting that Tim Inman’s Buick from the latest Mad Max instalment is one of the last vehicles left on earth. There’s more to see of this top-quality build at Tim’s photostream – click here to make the jump and get mad.
Flickr’s Sir Nadroj shows that small builds can be interesting too. His beautiful 1947 Buick Super Sedanette is only 6-studs wide but is as lovely as anything from our Model Team listings. There’s more to see at the link above.
Flickr’s Senator Chinchilla makes his second appearance here this week, with something very much at the other end of the style spectrum from his last creation. You can see more of his lovely 1950 Buick Special here.
Being European we know nothing at all about the car in this post. It’s apparently a 1980s Buick GNX, and it looks, er… rubbish. But that might just be because every other ’80s American car is complete shite and we’re stereotyping.
Anyway, whatever the real car is like, this model by TLCB regular Senator Chinchilla is an excellent build. You can see more on Flickr via the link above.
After ridiculing the automotive efforts of communism earlier in the week here’s a car that proves a) we occasionally show a BBC-like impartiality here at TLCB, and b) capitalism can get it just as wrong.
It is of course a Buick Roadmaster Station Wagon, and it typifies everything about American cars that makes Europeans chuckle. Boat proportions? Check. Ladder frame chassis? Check. Wheezy V8? Check. That V8 was an utterly ridiculous 5.7 litres, and it produced… 180bhp. Our office food blender makes more power than that.
To put that figure into perspective a similar vintage BMW 540i made over 100bhp more. Even the basic 525i was more powerful.
So would we like to own a Roadmaster? You bet! Yes it’s a compete turd, but with the Elves in a box in the trunk just look at how far away they’d be from us in the front!
Oh, this Lego version is the work of Ralph Savelsberg on Flickr, making one of his regular appearances. See more at the link.
A very American failure
Proving it wasn’t just the British who could design and build a beautiful car in the ’60s, wow audiences with it, and then quietly go bust a few years later, California’s Apollo Motor Company came up with this, the Apollo GT.
Powered by a 3.5L Buick V8 and with a sleek American-made body it should have been a success. But sadly, as is often the way, the skill of car designing is not always matched by business acumen. Apollo lasted just 3 years, with production totaling 88 units. Tim Inman aka Rabidnovaracer reproduces the coupe in LEGO to make it 89.