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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...
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An Even Bigger Accident
As has been well documented on this website, Ford Mustangs crash. A lot. Thus Ford have given their seventh generatio...
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A V10 Tip
TLCB top tip; want a rear-wheel-drive Japanese V10-engined icon but can’t afford a Lexus LFA? Get yourself a 1970s Is...
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Lime Crush
It’s been a quiet week here at TLCB Towers. Elves have returned, creations have been published, and no-one’s been squ...
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DAF-ish
When is a DAF not a DAF? When it’s a GINAF. No, us neither, but this is indeed a GINAF, specifically a M3132-S 360 AT...
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Z Tune
This might look that Nissan Skyline GT-R (R34), but it’s actually way more special. Fitted with a carbon fibre bodywo...
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Stripes on the Streets
‘Street takeovers’ don’t happen in our home nation. Partly because we don’t have a grid system giving wide intersecti...
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A Proper Porsche
Porsche are in big trouble. Despite the success of their EVs (and perhaps because of it…), Porsche are currently unde...
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The SS
From one end General Motors’ cool spectrum (well, almost. There was the Chevrolet Matiz) to the other. This is the gl...
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Top G
The Lego Car Blog Elves like Lamborghinis and monster trucks and things with rocket launchers. Which means they’re pr...
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Peak Nineties Nissan
Japanese performance cars, and Nissan in particular, used to be on top of the world. With all-wheel-drive, all-wheel-...
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Insert Low Level Drug Dealer
Now this is a common sight in our home nation. The badly-modified ’90s BMW M3; ill-fitting bodykit, 3D-lettered priva...
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Double Dutch
We’re trucking across the Netherlands today, thanks to two brilliant brick-built Dutch trucks. Well, one’s German, bu...
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Insert Shiny Meathead
We can’t see a ’60s black Dodge Charger without hearing “…Family…”, mumbled in barely comprehensible English. But shi...
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Printed Portals
It’s not a purist day here at TLCB, as we follow four 3D-printed wheels with four more. And a canvas roof. And – most...
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Enter the Dragon
Is Godzilla a lizard? Probably. We’re not up to speed on Japanese myths. But we do know that a lizard with wings is a...
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The Lego Multicar Blog
This strange looking device is an IFA Multicar M25, a small cab-over truck built in East Germany designed to perform ...
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Trucking Tuesday
We’re a Lego car blog, which is why all of today’s posts haven’t been cars… OK, we sometimes suck at our brief, but t...
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Height of Honda
Some say Honda’s peak was its six-year dominance of the Formula 1 World Championship from 1986. Others the Ferrari-be...
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Tanked Up
It’s the day after TLCB Christmas Party, which means we’re still drunk. No matter though, as we’ll be tanked up from ...
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Mon Ami
1960s Citroens were properly weird. This is a Citroen Ami 6, a front-wheel-drive economy car available as saloon, est...
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Tiny Turbo
This is a Honda’s B-Series engine, as used in numerous Civics, Preludes and Accords in the late-’80s to late-’90s, an...
