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Ramshackle
The Dodge Viper was famous for having a truck engine. Thus in the early-’00s Dodge decided to take the truck engine o...
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Bits of Bike
In the early 1900s the automobile was still in its infancy. Which – like any industry in its early phase – meant lots...
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A MAZterpiece
The Lego Car Blog Elves are cheerfully riding around the office whilst attempting mildly xenophobic Eastern European ...
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GRRRRREAT!
It might sound like an abbreviation of Tony the Tiger’s catchphrase, but we’re so excited about the ‘Toyota’ GR GT. A...
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Nomadic Lifestyle
It’s funny how words change over time. What once meant herding livestock across the Mongolian steppe, living in a ten...
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Going Vegan
Today The Lego Car Blog is going vegan! Yes we’re swapping pork for tofu, thanks to TLCB Master MOCer Firas Abu-Jaber...
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Don’t Tell Ferrari’s Lawyers
A pen has just been dropped by a grey-suited lawyer in Maranello. He looks up. He can sense something is wrong. Somew...
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Just the Tip
The Mazda RX-8 was a triumph when new. With an astonishing buttery-smooth rotary engine displacing just 1.3 litres ye...
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Special K
TLCB is the sort of place where we like an improbably large engine attached to something wildly inappropriate. And th...
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Packing Meat
Sharing a title with that video of your Mom, today’s post is full of meat, because this DAF FAS 2300 DHU truck and tw...
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Beige is Beautiful
Beige. The colour of hearing aids, old ladies’ bathrooms, and the interior walls of those with no imagination. And al...
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GT Four
Rumor has it that Toyota is in the final development phase of a new Celica, over two decades after the nameplate was ...
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Bus Boy
We’re travelling slowly through Westchester New York today, on a twenty-year-old Orion Industries V (05.505) bus. Ove...
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I Ain’t Afraid of No Ghost
The Lego Car Blog Elves are very happy today, seeing as they’re in their cage room watching Ghostbusters on an old TV...
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We’re Slammin’, and We Hope You like Slammin’ Too
We’re feeling loooow today, not in mood, but in stance, thanks to this beautiful air-bagged Peterbilt 389 truck and M...
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Old Money
We’re feeling so fancy today. This is a Bentley Mulsanne / Turbo R, and as we type this from TLCB Executive Washroom ...
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Driving Through the Death Star Trench
It’s still Star Wars Day, and if you think this post is the most tenuously-linked to the space-based saga yet and we’...
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Driver Inattention Detected
Of all of the EU-mandated ‘safety’ features that our European readers have to endure in their vehicles, the ‘driver a...
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Green Gran
We’re still in classic car territory here at The Lego Car Blog, which is fine by us; anything from years past is pref...
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Star Quality
We love an unpretentious workhorse here at The Lego Car Blog, and things don’t come more unpretentious and workhorsey...
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Winning Horse
Modern Formula 1 cars last just one season. But back in the 1970s Scuderia Ferrari created a car that lasted for six....
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Marlboro Men
We’re heading back to the turn of the decade today. No the one before that. And the one before that. Yes it’s the lat...
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Double Head
This bizarre machine is a 1984 DAF ‘Double-Head’, built to compete in the Paris-Dakar rally by Dutch driver Jan de Ro...
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Turbo Twin
The early years of turbocharging – characterised by chronic lag and spiky handling – were dominated by a few compani...
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Mining Cornwall
The Cornwall Peninsula in the very south of the United Kingdom is famous for its pasties, beaches, cider, and – at on...
