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’80s Truckin’
We jump back to the 1980s now with two trucks that were everywhere in Europe back then. The DAF FT95 and Mercedes-Benz 1632 could be found on every highway in Western Europe, usually pulling anonymous...
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Off-Road Orange
It’s as orange as your Mom and just as capable of getting dirty. The model in question comes from TLCB regular Horcik Designs and is based on the classic Tatra T148 all-wheel-drive truck. Underneath...
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I’ll Be There
We’re not sure what was going on in the ’90s, but TV theme tunes seemed to focus on simply turning up, Friends and Baywatch being prime examples. This writer was much too young to appreciate Baywatch...
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Blue Wonder
Race transporters used to be much more interesting than a DAF with a huge box trailer on the back… This is the Mercdes-Benz ‘Blue Wonder’, built in the mid-1950s to transport the team’s racing cars...
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Got a Light?
A question we’ve all been asked by those who always seem to be just a little shiftier than ourselves. Flickr’s Dennis Glaasker, aka Brickonwheels, does have a light though. In fact he’s got fifty-two...
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Wrong Side of the Tracks
Even for Soviet Russia, this vehicle is weird. This is a BWSM 80, which sounds perilously close to something your Mom would be into, but was in fact a prototype Soviet design that fused a GAZ 53 truck...
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Stack-a-DAF
We are going to have a very fat Elf in TLCB Towers shortly… Arian Janssens has appeared here at The Lego Car Blog numerous times over the years, more often than not with his fantastic Model Team...
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Black Sugar*
Another day, another Elf returns to TLCB Towers eagerly expecting a meal token and a Smartie. Today’s Elf is in luck, as it will get fed, but sadly as Smarties don’t come in black and there’s an...
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Old ‘n Orange
This amazing orange behemoth is a Scania LK141, and it comes from truck-building extraordinaire (and TLCB Master MOCer) Dennis Bosman aka legotrucks. With one of the finest chassis/engines we’ve ever...
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Big Brown
This huge slice of brown brilliance is a DAF NTT 2800, as built by Arian Janssens who has not only recreated the tractor unit beautifully, he’s added a huge matching box trailer behind it too....
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Meat Wagon
The animals are finally leaving the farm! We’re not sure it’s for a holiday though… Still, this is the 1960s, so at least cruel and intensive meat production isn’t really a thing yet. Arian Janssens...
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Got Milk?
Arian Janssens does. A lot of it, thanks to this 1980s DAF FAB 2300 DHT tanker which also features a properly weird axle layout, with two at the front, both of which turn, and a single at the rear....
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Back in Black
Flickr’s Jonathan Elliott has appeared here numerous times over the years with his excellent small-scale vehicles. Fellow builder JohnniD has too, but has since departed Flickr for pastures new. To...
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Tanker Truck Tribute
Last month we had the tremendously sad job of reporting the news that previous bloggee and legendary truck builder Ingmar Spijkhoven had lost his fight with motor neurone disease. This debilitating...
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Restoration Ralph
Restoring a car is a tricky business, but it’s slightly easier on an old pick-up truck such as this Ford F100. Everything bolts on and off a frame, there are virtually no electrics, and about three...
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Mack Mystery
Here at The Lego Car Blog we love hearing your suggestions when our Elves may have missed a blog-worthy creation. However we do also receive self-requests, which we politely decline. This week though,...
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Hiding in Plain Sight
The words spoken by our favourite alien truck/robot protector at the end of the first Transformers movie, explaining not only his ongoing mission but also setting up the premise for an unending series...
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My Other Car’s a Mustang
LEGO’s new 10265 Creator Ford Mustang set is a great addition to their officially licensed range. With useful parts, excellent detailing, and being a replica of one of the coolest cars ever made, it’s...
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Made of More
Ireland’s most famous export, Guinness has been a fixture of bars around the world for over 250 years. It has therefore probably been responsible for more fights, more babies, and more drunken singing...
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Retro Rampage
Whiiiir! Crunch. Whiiiir! Crunch. Elven Screaming. Whiiiir! Crunch. Sigh. These are sounds we’ve heard too often here at The Lego Car Blog Towers before, and they usually mean we’re going to have to...
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