Proving that you can race anything – no matter how inappropriate – Flickr’s Fukku Guen has taken a Japanese Kei truck, fitted a V6 in the cargo bed, wide arches, and the sort of rear wing and front splitter you’d normally expect to find at Pikes Peak. Inspired by the LEGO 77262 Speed Champions Ken Block Hoonicorn set (and utilising a few of its pieces), building instructions are available, and you can take a closer look at Fukku’s black-and-gold Kei monster on Flickr via the link above.
TLCB Team went out for a curry last night and consequently quite a lot of gas has been released in the office today. Which leads us seamlessly – if childishly – to this, a Kenworth C500K 6×6 ‘Frack Pump’; effectively a 40-ton water-jet used to blast apart rock deep underground to release the gas within.
It comes from previous bloggee Sseven Bricks who was inspired to build it by his PhD. Which is presumably geophysical rather than flatulence related.
Working steering, a two-seat cab, and an opening control box all feature, and you can float on over to Sseven’s photostream via the link above for more.
The Dodge Viper was famous for having a truck engine. Thus in the early-’00s Dodge decided to take the truck engine out of the Viper and put it back in, well… a truck. And the result was one of the post pointless vehicles ever created.
Based on the Dodge Ram 1500, the Dodge Ram SRT10 featured the Viper’s 500bhp 8.3 litre V10, with Bilstein shock absorbers, performance-tuned springs, and an extra shock on the rear axle to prevent wheel hop during wheel-spin, in an attempt to make it drive less… well, like a Dodge Ram.
The Ram SRT10 was immediately the fastest pick-up truck in the world, reaching a top speed of 154mph. Which must’ve been terrifying as it still definitely drove like a Dodge Ram.
This brilliant Model Team version of what was once the world’s fastest truck comes from previous bloggee Szunyogh Balázs (aka gnat.bricks), who has captured the Dodge Ram SRT10 superbly. There’s a detailed engine under the opening hood, a suitably black-plastic interior behind the opening doors, a raising rear load deck, and even a life-like brick-built drivetrain under the chassis too.
There’s much more of Szunogh’s model to see at his ‘Dodge Ram SRT10’ album on Flickr, and you can do 154mph in an early-’00s pick-up truck via the link above.
People that consume energy drinks are c***s. In TLCB’s home nation, energy drinks make up fewer than 10% of all canned drinks sold, and yet they seem to make up over 90% of all the litter. Not just canned drinks litter, but all litter. Which means there’s a direct positive correlation between Propensity to Consume an Energy Drink and Being a Self-Entitled Scumbag.
The question is do scumbags consume energy drinks, or does consuming an energy drink turn you into a scumbag? That’s one for science. In the meantime here’s the solution, an excellent Isuzu NPR recycling truck, as the one positive of energy drinks – which are without doubt the cigarettes of the 2020s – is that the can they come in is endlessly recyclable. When it’s not chucked in a hedge.
Constructed by TLCB Master MOCer Kyle Wigboldy (aka thirdwigg) this neat Technic creation adds another variant to his previously blogged Isuzu, with a tipping hopper and mechanical bin lift added to the working steering, tilting cab, and 4-cylinder piston engine.
Building instructions are available and there’s more of the model to see on Flickr. Click these words to take a look, and stop drinking Monster. You’re better than that.
It’s T time here at The Lego Car Blog, courtesy of Master MOCer Ralph Savelsberg and these immensely detailed Renault T trucks. In heavy haulage 8×4 and the more usual white 4×2 configurations, Ralph’s Ts pack in more detail than many models twice the size, and you head to Flickr for T time by clicking here. Just know that if you add sugar we’ll judge you for it.
The Lego Car Blog Elves are cheerfully riding around the office whilst attempting mildly xenophobic Eastern European accents today, courtesy of Michael Kulakov (aka Michael217) and this, his spectacular MAZ 504 truck.
Fully remote controlled via a mix of LEGO and third-party motors, Michael’s MAZ also features a two speed gearbox via a nicely accessible lever behind the cab (which also moves the in-cab gear lever), a working steering wheel, a 6-cylinder engine under a tilting cab, a mechanically deployable spare wheel carrier, working suspension, plus custom wheels, rubber mud-flaps, and 3D-printed front fender extensions.
The result is quite fantastically life-like (even if not quite all LEGO), and there’s loads more of Michael’s magnificently presented MAZ model to see at both Eurobricks and Flickr. Click the links above to check out his MAZterpiece.
Kei trucks are not renowned for their performance. Smallness yes. Speed no. But what if you fitted a twin-turbo engine in the entirety of the bed?… Well Flickr’s Sergio Batista has answered that question with his mad kei truck, which imagines what a Suzuki Carry would look like if it were built for Time Attack. With choice parts and the livery from the LEGO 77258 F1 Academy Car set it certainly looks the business, and you can drift through the narrow streets of Tokyo via the link above.
Various comments received here at TLCB have rightly accused us of posting garbage, and excitingly we’ve got more garbage to post today!
This is a Mack LR side-loading garbage truck, and it’s been built only from the parts of the LEGO Technic 42175 Volvo FMX & EC230 Electric Excavator set, so there’s some recycling going on as well.
There’s working steering, a 6-cylinder engine under the tilting cab, a tipping hopper, and an operational side-loading arm too.
Flickr’s Dyens Creations is the builder behind it, and you can put your bins out via the link above, plus you can click here for another 42175 alternate blogged here previously. Because we do post a lot of garbage.
We’re alternately off-roading at TLCB today, thanks to Master MOCer Thirdwigg and this neat Steyr-Puch Pinzgauer, an immensely capable military truck named after an Austrian cattle breed and built until the mid-‘00s.
Constructed from 755 parts of LEGO’s 42213 Technic Ford Bronco set, Thirdwigg’s recreation of the unusual Austrian off-road truck includes working suspension, steering, a mid-mounted piston engine, an opening hood, and – most importantly – a lunchbox.
Building instructions are available and you can click here to swap your American horse for an Austrian cow.
It’s been some time since one of our Elves ran over its colleagues with a remote control creation. And that doesn’t change today, as despite being epically remote controlled, this magnificent Tatra trial truck is too slow to run down any Elves at all. Which enraged the Elf that found it. Still, a Red Smartie will perk it up, and we can take a look at this astonishing creation without having to clean the floors first.
It comes from TLCB Master MOCer Sariel, and it’s a Tatra 813 8×8 designed specifically for going very slowly over almost anything.
Eight-wheel-drive, four-wheel-steering, high/low gearbox, incredible suspension, and a working piston engine all feature, and you can see more of this mighty machine on Flickr and via the video below, where Sariel pulls some very heavy things (very slowly) across his floor.
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Lots of companies are called Muller in Europe, but seeing as we only know what one of them does, we’re going to assume this lovely MAN TGX truck and trailer combo by Flickr’s Keko007 is full of those divided yoghurts that contain a compartment of fruit or chocolatey balls. Superb brickmanship abounds, particularly evident in the excellent Muller ‘M’ logo, and you can tip the little balls into the yoghurt via the link above.
The Isuzu NPR is the plastic stackable chair of vehicles; entirely overlooked, and yet utterly indispensable. The most interesting thing about an NPR is not the truck itself, but what it’s carrying. And that’s the whole point.
Cue thirdwigg’s Isuzu NPR glass truck, notable in real life only because it carries glass. Working steering, an inline-4 engine, and a tilting cab feature, with more to see – including a link to building instructions – via the link.
Do you own the LEGO Technic 42175 Volvo FMX & EC230 Electric Excavator set, but wish it was a little more… garbage? Then we have the perfect alternative!
Constructed only from the parts found within 42175, previous bloggee paave’s garbage truck B-Model features a tilting cab, functioning steering, a working piston engine, an operational discharge plate, an openable and locking tailgate, plus a pneumatically operable side-arm lift that can seemingly lift a bin from the other side of the street.
There’s more to see – including a link to building instructions – at the Eurobricks forum, plus you watch all those features in action below.
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We like a brick-built livery here at The Lego Car Blog, as they – like their real-world counterparts – are able to turn something rather ordinary and ubiquitous (like a DAF 95 truck) into something rather more visually interesting.
Cue Flickr’s joopatkleppie, whose DAF 95 wears the ‘90s livery of haulage firm Jonker Veendam, and that means diagonal stripes…
Jooptakleppie has managed it though, and you can check this diagonally-striped DAF at his photostream via the link.
TLCB is the sort of place where we like an improbably large engine attached to something wildly inappropriate. And there’s few vehicles more inappropriate for massive power than a Japanese Kei truck.
Limited to 3.4m in length and engines no larger than 660cc, Kei trucks are really very small indeed. But that hasn’t stopped newcomer Fukku Guen from fitting his with an enormous bed-mounted engine plus a pair of nitrous tanks.
We expect the handling – not to mention the carrying capacity – may be slightly compromised, but it more than makes up for that with fantastic silliness.
There’s more of Fukku’s modified Kei truck to see on Flickr, and you can take a look at his photostream via the link!