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Can-Am Classic
This unusually-hued creation is a 1970s Can-Am racer, from a time when huge V8s and top motorsport teams combined to create some of the coolest racing cars on earth. Can-Am ran from the mid-’60s to...
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Lotus 18 | Picture Special
This beautiful creation is a Lotus 18, and it’s one of the most wonderful racing cars ever made. Succeeding Colin Chapman’s Lotus 16 (what happened to 17?), the 18 was designed to compete in both...
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Beast of Turin (Probably)
The inline four-cylinder petrol engine is the most commonly fitted engine to cars the world over. The optimum balance between smoothness, power, efficiency, and er… cheapness, the inline-4 needs only...
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Red Racer
The 2021 Formula 1 season is about to begin, in which some tiny sports car manufacturers (Aston Martin, Alpine, McLaren, Alfa Romeo and Ferrari) will fight over second place behind Mercedes-AMG. Of...
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Gives You Wings
The 2021 Formula 1 season is about to begin, with the team reveals arriving thick and fast. TLCB – with our finger on the pulse as usual – are bringing you a car from 2011… Of course what colour...
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The Winningest Horse
Formula 1 hasn’t always been dulled by Mercedes-AMG’s utter dominance. Back in the early 2000s it was dulled by Scuderia Ferrari’s utter dominance, which peaked with this car; 2004’s imaginatively...
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Ferrari F50 GT | Picture Special
This is the Ferrari F50 GT, a GT1 racer designed to compete in the Global GT Series of the mid-’90s against supercars such the McLaren F1 GTR, Jaguar XJ220 and Porsche 911 GT1. However, Ferrari being...
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Elven Dreams
If TLCB Elves were to design a car, it would probably look like this. Only with rocket launchers. Despite that obvious omission, our smelly little workers are still mightily excited by this ‘Igniter...
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Scuderia Glickenhaus
Every Lego car builder has probably dreamed of running their own supercar company. So too has every multi-millionaire, with a new one popping up on an almost weekly basis claiming that they’re...
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Turn Your Nose Up
The wildly incompetent back-alley of the internet that is TLCB actually came to be because the proper Lego blogs were turning their noses up at vehicular creations. We’re not sure if ‘turning their...
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Alpine Pass
History is littered with vehicle manufacturers who sold about five cars a year, but yet somehow thought they could afford a top-tier racing team. Caterham, Marussia, Spyker, TVR and others have all...
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Racing Snake
Early-’00s American cars are fat, badly built, inefficient, poor handling crap-boxes, and you’d have to be an idiot to like any of them. This is an early-’00s Dodge Viper; a fat, badly built,...
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Don’t Mention the War
This bizarre looking vehicle is a Porsche 356 Carrera GTL Abarth, a lightweight racing car from 1960 resulting from a rare collaboration between Germany and Italy. Previous partnerships between the...
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LEGO Technic 42141 McLaren Formula 1™ Race Car | Set Preview
LEGO Technic 42141 McLaren Formula 1 Car Here it is! After dropping a few hints when we revealed the rest of the 2022 Technic line-up earlier, this is the brand new 42141 Technic McLaren Formula 1...
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Insert Safety Car Here
Mercedes-AMG’s seven-year dominance of the Formula 1 World Championship finally ended in 2021. Well, sort of… they still won the Constructor’s Championship, making it eight-in-a-row, but Lewis...
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Bricky E-ish
The future of racing is electric. Because the future of everything is electric, unless we can sort hydrogen out. Formula E is the FIA’s flagship electric racing series, in which unsuccessful Formula 1...
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Calsonic Skyline
This is the Calsonic-sponsored Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 from the early-’00s Japan Grand Touring Car Championship, but of course, you probably already knew that. Whilst Alexander Paschoaletto‘s...
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Advantage
We’re rounding out 2022 with exactly the sort of car that this crumbling ruin in the corner of the internet was created for; the mighty Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3. Built by previous bloggee...
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Greater Endurance
After spending some time with your Mom over Christmas, she said we needed ‘more endurance’. Well today’s post will rectify that (we assume this is what she meant), with no less than five glorious...
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What Might Have Been
The story of the 2022 Formula 1 season is one of what might have been. After years in the doldrums, Scuderia Ferrari finally had the fastest car on the grid, and not only that, they had one of the...
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