Some cars are just cool. And this is one of them, the tremendous 1969 Chevrolet Nova SS, equipped with a near 400bhp V8 and – in the case of PleaseYesPlease’s brick-built example – dropped to the floor under bulging arches. Never has the office Rover 200 looked more upright. Or slower. Join us imagining we’re cool at Please’s ‘Nova SS 1969’ album via the link.
Corvettes, like Mustangs, are often driven by people who think their car can spin on the spot. Or fly. Or both. They are mistaken.
But not today! Because we have two Corvettes that can do just that. Previous bloggee Sergio Batista has taken the 76903 Speed Champions Corvettes set and added a whole lot more vertical ability, with inspiration from artist Alejandro Burdisio, the ‘Blade Runner’ movies, and a heap of unusual LEGO Bionicle and Exo-Force pieces.
LED lighting adds to the aura, and there’s more to see of both the Corvette Stingray hover car and Corvette C8.R ‘Spinner’ at Sergio’s photostream. Click the links to take a look, or here for another bonus Corvette crash.
This is not a Transformer. But it is kinda like one. In the same way that this TLCB Writer is kinda like Usain Bolt. What? We both have running shoes.
You see back in the late 2000s, when Michael Bay blew up everything in the first instalment of the ‘Transformers’ movie franchise, General Motors wanted in on the alien robot action. Cue some pretty egrigeious product placement, and – if you had a particularly smooth brain – the option to specify your own Chevrolet Camaro to look like the ‘Bumblebee’ from the movie, ‘Transformers’ badges and everything. Even if you only bought the V6.
Today’s model recreates the real ‘Transformers’ specced Camaros brilliantly in Technic form, with working steering, a V6 engine, opening doors, hood and trunk, and no ability to transform. ArtemyZotov is its maker and you can find all the images and a link to building instructions at the Eurobricks forum. Click the link for the most ill-advised options package of the late 2000s.
No really! Because this fabulous recreation of the wild Hoonigan Big-Block Chevrolet Camaro is constructed only from the parts of the official LEGO Technic 42143 Ferrari Daytona SP3. Which has lead to some inspired parts usage – just look at those tail-lights! Finally a positive to LEGO’s baffling decision to use multi-coloured pins.
Eurobricks’ paave is the builder behind it, and with working suspension, steering, V8 engine, and 4+R gearbox, his 42143 B-Model is as features-packed as its donor set.
Building instructions are available and you can find out more – and maybe swap your own Ferrari for a rather unique Camaro – at the Eurobricks forum via the link above.
I gotta go ’cause I got me a drop-topAnd if I hit the switch, I can make the ass dropCube’s Impala is the base
Sergio Batista’s even added his faceLow ‘n slow wins the race
Chrome bricks, printed rims and paint, for purists this Chevy ain’tBut listen homies, that’s not a complaintBounce over to Flickr, so you can acquaint.
Yes we’ve murdered Ice Cube’s ‘It Was a Good Day’, but with Sergio’s ’64 Chevrolet lowrider straight from the ’92 video we were pretty much obliged to. Click here to make the ass drop.
It’s funny how words change over time. What once meant herding livestock across the Mongolian steppe, living in a tent and drinking yaks milk, now means sitting on a beach in Bali selling crap digital marketing / lifestyle coaching / crypto courses to the terminally gullible.
There must be a middle-ground…
Fortunately there is, and today we’re showing you how to have a nomadic lifestyle whilst neither freezing in a tent in Mongolia nor becoming an insufferable digital douchebag. This is the Chevrolet Nomad.
Based on the Chevrolet Bel-Air and featuring a gorgeous two-door two-tone station-wagon body, the V8-powered Nomad was the height of ’50s ‘Motorama’ design. Growing to become an equally dramatic four-door station-wagon from ’58, it’s the ’57 model-year we have here, courtesy of previous bloggee Tony Bovkoon and his fabulous Model Team recreation.
Opening doors, hood and tailgate all feature, as does a superbly replicated V8 engine and interior, with lots more to see at Tony’s ‘Chevrolet Nomad’ album. Building instructions are available too so you can go nomadic for yourself; click the link above to find out more, no yaks milk or dodgy digital marketing course required.
Here in TLCB’s home nation we know the ‘Nova’ as an early-‘80s to early-‘90s supermini that was everywhere, and then nowhere, as rust and neglect killed – like all ‘80s economy cars – almost every last one.
In 1960s America however, an ‘economy car’ meant something rather different, and General Motors used the same nameplate for the Chevrolet Nova, the base engine for which was more than twice as big as the largest engine ever fitted to its later Vauxhall namesake.
But we’re not interested in the base Nova, not when there was a V8 engine of over five litres available in the Super Sport variant. Imagine that in a Vauxhall shopping car…
This beautiful ‘67 Chevrolet Nova SS is the work of Flickr’s PleaseYesPlease, and it’s about a billion times cooler than the Novas we got. Superbly built and presented, there’s more to see at Please’s photostream and you can take a look via the link.
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!
‘Street takeovers’ don’t happen in our home nation. Partly because we don’t have a grid system giving wide intersections, but mostly because an economy hatchback isn’t really the right tool.
Americans of course have it much easier, with vehicle-based douchbaggery in reach for all thanks to a plethora of cheap, powerful, but crap sedans. Cue Mihail Rakovskiy’s splendid Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, which you guarantee on any given night in America will be doing donuts in the middle of a four-lane junction.
Mihail’s Model Team version captures the real Camaro superbly, with a highly detailed engine bay, interior and drivetrain, opening doors, hood and trunk, and a pair of racing stripes that add at least 50bhp.
There’s lots more of the model to see at Mihail’s ‘Lego Chevrolet Camaro ZL1’ album, and you can close a street to do a poorly executed donut via the link above.
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…
From one end General Motors’ cool spectrum (well, almost. There was the Chevrolet Matiz) to the other. This is the glorious 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS, with racing stripes and a 7.4 litre V8 that could be optioned up to 450bhp.
This spectacular brick-built version of the top dog Chevelle comes from Jakub Marcisz who has updated his previous iteration of his model, and features working steering, a two-speed gearbox, and V8 engine, plus opening doors, hood and trunk.
Building instructions are available and you can see all of the images and find full details of Jakub’s incredible creation at both Flickr and Eurobricks. Click the links to take a look.
This TLCB Writer likes to think he’s impervious to product placement, advertisements, and online marketing.
But ALL he wants right now is tacos. Dwelve’s Chevy Step-Van food truck is the cause, and you can join this writer in the queue via the link.
When America’s government need highly trained police officers to go into the most dangerous situations, they call for S.W.A.T, or ‘Special Weapons And Tactics’.
And when they need ill-trained thugs to shoot an unarmed nurse outnumbered 8:1 ten times, they call for ICE.
We’ll stick with the former today, firstly because we have this awesome Chevy P30 S.W.A.T van straight outta Gotham City, and secondly because if S.W.A.T are here we’re less likely to get shot by Immigration & Customs Enforcement.
This splendid brick-built version of the police units trained to do things properly comes from previous bloggee Sam Andreas, and you can join them on the streets of Gotham via the link above. Which has got to be safer than being on the actual streets of America when ICE are around…
‘What’s that crunchy sound?’ muttered this TLCB Writer to himself as he sat in TLCB Office. A weary trudge out to the corridor revealed the source, as a remote control 4×4 drove forwards and backwards over a small pile of flattened TLCB Elves.
On seeing a human the Elf at the controls abandoned its activity and fled the scene cackling maniacally, leaving its vehicle of choice (and the pile of Elves underneath it) behind. We’ll administer first-aid to the victims later, but first let’s take a look at the model!
It’s a K5-series Chevrolet Blazer, as recreated superbly in Technic form by Madoca 1977. A suite of Powered-Up electronics are packed inside, providing remote control four-wheel-drive, steering and a high/low gearbox.
Madoca has also engineered a properly clever drivetrain, with linked pendular suspension that automatically locks the differentials at high rates of axle articulation. No wonder it made such light work of squashing our mythical workers.
There’s lots more of Madoca’s model to see – including images of the ingenious engineering within – at the Eurobricks forum, plus you watch the Blazer in action via the video below. Click the links to take a closer look.
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The recent assassination of Charlie Kirk – ironically during a speech where he was criticising gun control – continues the descent of America (and many other nations, our own included) into a tribalist, binary, them and us, anyone-who-doesn’t-think-like-me-is-the-enemy hellscape.
Thus today we’re showing some BBC-esque impartiality and featuring a model of a car we dislike immensely will write about objectively.
Digitally created by Peter Blackert (aka lego911), this is an early-’00s GMC Yukon; a full-size SUV based on the Chevrolet Tahoe and powered by an enormous 5.7 V8 that made just 250bhp, similar to the vastly superior Toyota 4Runner’s much smaller V6 some 250bhp. The Yukon/Tahoe also featured side airbags, four-wheel disc brakes, and automatic headlight control, plus many other, um… facts.
Alright, we’re not very good as this factual stuff. But it doesn’t matter if we think that the GMC Yukon is two-tons of early-’00s American automotive malaise and you think it’s the best vehicle ever made. It’s OK to disagree. Even if someone’s opinions are bit unusual. We quite like the Fiat Multipla after all.
You can take a look at Peter’s excellent virtual Yukon at his photostream via the link above, whether you love the real thing, hate it, or have no opinion whatsoever.
