Fiat’s Shoddy Off-cuts
Fast, Safe and Opulent. Wait, no, that’s not right. FSO, Poland’s answer to Lada, did not make good cars. In fact, like Lada, they made bad cars out of the leftover bits of old Fiats. Bad cars that...
View ArticleFSOh No
This fabulous model of a horrible car is the work of TLCB favourite Karwik on Flickr, who has, for reasons unknown to man and beast, chosen to recreate the abysmal FSO Polonez Hatchback, Coupe and...
View ArticleBright Star
Newcomer Re-Zortker‘s chunky remote control Polish Star 266 truck hides a suite of Power Functions components underneath its bright yellow bodywork and black canvas flatbed. See it an action on Flickr...
View ArticleCasualty of War
Discovered on Flickr this Lego recreation of a Polish RWD-14 Czapla reconnaissance plane is one of the vehicular casualties of the Second World War. Whilst the Czapla did have two machine guns fitted...
View ArticleStart the Bus
After some big posts last week we kick of the new week with something a bit smaller. This beautiful classic Polish Autosan H9-35 bus was built by Maciej Drwiega on Flickr. It may only be ‘Town’ scale...
View ArticlePolish Star
Flickr’s Karwik is a regular here at The Lego Car Blog, with over a dozen of his beautiful Town vehicles featured here since our inception. Today he adds no less than six more creations to his...
View ArticleFiat Sell Out
We found this model too late for Halloween, but it would have been a perfect Frankenstein’s monster for the festival of all things horrible! Many vehicle manufacturers have sold off their old designs...
View ArticlePolish Colour Television – Picture Special
This is one of the more unusual vehicles to appear here at TLCB this year, but it’s one of our absolute favourites! This gorgeous 1971 Jelcz Mielec television truck has been constructed by TLCB...
View ArticleMostly Ferguson
This neat Lego Ursus tractor (a Polish-built Massey Ferguson) comes from previous bloggee Damien Z. aka Thietmaier. It’s both beautifully constructed and photographed, and you can see all the images...
View ArticleUgly Zukker
After a few deeply cool and exotic vehicles TLCB has returned to its place in the automotive gutter, a spot we seem to inhabit rather frequently. This is an FSC Zuk van, and it’s hideous in every way....
View ArticleStalowa Wola L34 – Picture Special
This beautiful machine is a Stalowa Wola L34 front loader, built from the mid-70s until the 2000 in Poland and now recreated in stunning accuracy by Zbiczasty of Brickshelf. Featuring Power Functions...
View ArticleZuk Me
This neat recreation of a Poland’s finest 1 ton truck comes from previous bloggee Thietmaier and it’s a beautifully built little thing. Unlike the real Zuk A11B, which, well… wasn’t. Based on an FSO...
View ArticleAutosan H9-21 – Picture Special
This absolutely beautiful creation comes from previous bloggee Eric Trax, and it’s a near-perfect replica of a Polish Autosan H9-21 39-seat intercity bus produced from the 1970s until the early 2000s....
View ArticleUrsus 912 | Picture Special
Founded in 1893 by a team of seven engineers and businessmen the Ursus factory began producing exhaust engines and trucks. In 1930 the company was nationalised during the Great Depression and Ursus...
View ArticleTractor Trailer Trailer
Flickr’s Jakeof_ is back, with this beautifully constructed MTZ-82.1 tractor – complete with hot dogs for wheel arches – towing a pair of Autosan D-732 trailers. Lovely detailing is visible throughout...
View ArticleUrsus C330
This beautiful little Ursus C330 tractor was found by one of our Elves on Flickr today. Built by Thietmaier aka Damian Z it deploys a brilliantly chosen array of tiny pieces to give a wealth of detail...
View ArticlePole Position
This rather lovely looking automobile is the CWS T-1, the first serially-produced car to be manufactured in Poland. The T-1 was a clever piece of design too, with the entire car using only a single...
View ArticleFarmville
We like a good tractor here at TLCB. We even like a not very good tractor, which – knowing little about this Ursus C-360 from 1970s Poland – today’s one may well be. It is a lovely build though,...
View ArticlePolish a Turd
Italy, no stranger to maniacal despots itself, had a nice little business selling its old products to scumbag dictatorships in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s. The most famous of these is probably the...
View ArticleFiat’s Shoddy Off-cuts
Fast, Safe and Opulent. Wait, no, that’s not right. FSO, Poland’s answer to Lada, did not make good cars. In fact, like Lada, they made bad cars out of the leftover bits of old Fiats. Bad cars that...
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