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Dump Your Horse

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Revealed here earlier in the year, LEGO’s 42213 Technic Ford Bronco brings the blue oval’s newest, but retro-est, 4×4 to bedroom floors everywhere. It also provides just under a thousand pieces for B-Model building, with previous bloggee damianPLE doing just that, by turning his Bronco into this excellent Technic off-road dump truck.

Like the set on which it’s based, Damian’s alternate includes working suspension, ‘HOG’ steering, and a V6 engine under an opening hood, whilst adding a manually operable tipper too. Building instructions are available and you can find all the images, plus that instructional link, at Bricksafe and Eurobricks respectively. Dump your horse via the links above!

Got Milk?

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Keko007 does. Well, his excellent DAF XF 530 Superspace and Willig Sanz Tunker trailer could actually be transporting one of any number of liquids, but it looks pretty milky to us. Pour it on your cereal at Keko’s photostream via the link above, although TLCB cannot be held responsible if it turns out to be industrial cleaner.

Meandering the Medina

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Sometimes it’s all about the shot. Photographed by Erik Frobom and built by Michael Willhoit this fantastic image captures a delightfully overloaded classic truck under an archway in ‘Medina Al Musawrah’, an enormous multi-maker collaborative display constructed for the Brickfair VA show.

A huge array of vehicles and buildings comprise the complete build, including the beautiful scene below, and you can take wander through the streets of ‘Al Musawrah’ at Michael’s Flickr album via the link above.

Motorway Furniture

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Well this is a common sight for all of our European readers. The most nondescript of trucks, in the most nondescript of liveries, on its way to collect a nondescript load from a nondescript regional distribution centre. European motoring doesn’t get any more mundane than this. Flickr’s Arian Janssens is the creator of this excellent DAF XG+, and he’s constructed a mighty (and rather interesting) trailer to go with it. But that doesn’t fit the narrative we’re trying to weave, so you’ll have to look at it at Arian’s Flickr album. Head there via the link above!

Jack of All Trades

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The Mercedes-Benz Unimog is not, technically, a truck. It is in fact a universal tractor, with literally dozens of different applications. Which probably explains why dozens of different Unimogs have appeared here to date. Today we can add one more, a 1980s Unimog U1400 Agrar courtesy of Sseven Bricks of Flickr. A front PTO allows any number of tools to be added in front of the cab, whilst a big cage behind it means any number can be added at the back too. There’s more of Sseven’s model to see on Flickr and you can take a closer look via the link above.

Chinese Six

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We’re not sure why trucks with two axles at the front and one at the back are known as ‘Chinese Sixes’. Probably something to do with casual racism. We won’t delve any further then, but we will highlight this splendid example by prolific DAF-builder Arian Janssens.

A DAF FAB 2500 DHS, Arian’s beautifully detailed model captures the classic truck in its unusual ‘Chinese Six’ configuration brilliantly, and includes a folded crane behind the cab and a drawbar trailer in tow too.

Excellent presentation compliments the model’s stunning realism and there’s lots more of the build to see at Arian’s ‘DAF FAB 2500 DHS (Chinese Six)’ album. Take a closer look via the link.

Picking Cherries

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Cherry pickers seem to rarely pick actual cherries. Fixing telephone wires, street lamps, and lopping trees sure, but cherries no.

Cue Ralph Savelsberg and this excellent mini-figure scale Mercedes-Benz Unimog, complete with a rear mounted hoist able to elevate and rotate to pick the juiciest cherries. Or fix a rural community’s broadband after a storm. But whatever.

There’s more to see at Ralph’s Flickr album and you can take a look via the link above whilst this TLCB Writer heads to the fridge in search of fruit…

And Now For Something Completely Different…

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Um… well this is… Ok, it’s a… well there’s a school bus, and a Metroliner, and a truck atop a V10 boat engine, and, um…  Perhaps it’s just best if you visit Renuad Petit Lego‘s Flickr album. There’s no explanation there either, but it’s probably better that way.

Technic Truckin’

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It’s truck time here at The Lego ‘Car’ Blog, because we’re six, and we like big trucks. This one comes from _Electro_ of Eurobricks, and captures the Peterbilt 352 ‘cab-over’ brilliantly in brick form. LEGO Power Functions components provide remote control drive, steering, and a fifth-wheel trailer hitch, there’s working suspension, and building instructions are available too if you’d like to recreate it for yourself. Head over to the Eurobricks discussion forum for full details, imagery, and the instructional link.

Rock Tour

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Writing for The Lego Car Blog is much like being in a rock band. Fame, groupies, easy access to drugs and liquor… whilst we get precisely none of those, we do earn $0.0001 every time someone consumes our work. Which means we get paid just like artists do on Spotify.

The future of music is therefore looking bleak (and even more so with AI), but for the tiny fraction of musicians who do make it to the top, there is the promise of traveling the world in a flame-painted truck. Plus fame, groupies, and easy access to drugs and liquor.

Cue this magnificently rendered ‘Flame Tourer’ truck by László Torma, which contains everything a touring rock band needs to put on a moderately-profitable show! Instruments, sound and lighting equipment, and a stage all fit inside – accessed via opening doors and a removable roof – plus there’s a bar and bunk beds for the aforementioned liquor and groupies too.

There’s lots more of László’s creation to see at both Eurobricks and Flickr, and you can join the band on tour via the links above!

The Hook

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We like a good hook here at TLCB, and they don’t come much gooder or hookier than this huge DAF FAD 95.400 ATI 8×4 hook-lift truck by Flickr’s Arian Janssens.

Able to hoist an enormous container onto itself, as well as tow another behind on a draw-bar trailer, Arian’s DAF is a testament to large scale model-making, and there’s loads more to see at his ‘DAF FAD 95.400 ATI 8×4’ album. Take a look via the link above if it’s got you hooked…

*Today’s (wonderful) title song. Of course.

Vintage Vegetable Vignette

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This site is, admittedly, usually full of vehicles with stripes, spoilers, and V8s. But we’re actually rural bumpkins at heart, so we’re also rather fond of vehicles and scenes like this one.

Constructed by Andrew Tate (no, not that one), this lovely vintage vignette captures truck trading from decades gone by, and you can take a look at a quieter time rebuilt in brick via the link above.

The Other F1

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As we type this, twenty cars are currently in a one-and-a-half-hour traffic jam in the streets of Monaco. Which is really boring. So here’s a more interesting F1; the first Ford F-Series pick-up, a vehicle that would became one of the most successful models in history.

Built by previous bloggee Jakub Marcisz, this lovely recreation of the 1948 Ford F1 includes working steering, opening doors, double-hinged hood and tailgate, plus a detailed engine and interior.

Building instructions are available and you can see more at Jakub’s ‘Ford F1 1948’ Flickr album and at the Eurobricks forum, where there’s not an over-priced ticket nor procession masquerading as a motor race in sight.

Superliner

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Another day, another Elf returns to TLCB Towers in the hope of a meal token and a Smartie. Which it has definitely earned, as we are rather partial to a classic American truck.

This one is a mid-‘80s Mack Superliner, and not only does it look excellent, it’s got a working V8, functioning steering and fifth wheel, and opening doors and hood.


Constructed by previous bloggee DamianPLE there’s more to see, including building instructions, at both Eurobricks and Bricksafe, and you can take a look via the links.

Notable Extension

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Sometimes things need to be a bit longer. At least according to your Mom. Well she’ll be pleased today, because Arian Janssens’ already impressively-sized creation can grow even more lengthy.

That’s because Arian’s DAF FTS XFc 530 truck is pulling an enormous extending three-axle trailer, the length of which can be adjusted depending upon its load, with the front and rear parts separating via a central girder that’s concealed when the sections are joined. A crane can slide fore and aft along the trailer’s span when the front and rear are connected, whilst steered axles assist with its manoeuvring, all recreated brilliantly in brick form.

It’s an outstanding member of Arian’s extensive DAF truck garage, and there’s more to see of this spectacularly sizeable model at his ‘DAF FTS XFc 530’ album on Flickr, including images of the trailer at its full gargantuan reach.