Eastern Exception
Cars from behind the Iron Curtain were almost universally crap. Cars like this, this, this, and this for instance. But there was one exception. A glorious, wonderful, magnificent oasis hidden in the...
View ArticleTrucavator
We don’t see this type of vehicle in TLCB’s home nation, and we’re not really sure why. A hybrid of truck and excavator it seems like quite a useful design, being fast enough to drive on roads without...
View ArticleEastern Exception (Reprise)
This utterly wonderful Technic Tatra 603 appeared here at The Lego Car Blog just over a year ago. Its maker, Horcik Designs, recently uploaded some superb new high-quality imagery courtesy of a fellow...
View ArticleTatra T-813 8×8 Kolos | Picture Special
This is a Tatra T-813 8×8 Kolos, and it’s (probably) the best off-road truck in the world. Well this isn’t obviously, it’s much too small, but it is (probably) the best Lego recreation of the best...
View ArticleOff-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...
View ArticleTipping Twice
First shown here in 2015, Jarda’s gorgeous Tatra 815 has been updated in red for an upcoming Lego exhibition in Denmark. With Power Functions remote control drive and steering and beautifully...
View ArticleThe Coolest Fire Truck
All fire trucks are cool. OK, maybe not this one, but pretty much everything else. The coolest of the lot could well be this, the awesome Tatra T815-CAS32. With six-wheel-drive and a 360-degree...
View ArticleKolos Krush
The Lego Car Blog Elves have been peaceful in 2019 thus far. Too peaceful. Fear not though avid readers, today the little scumbags were back on form courtesy of this; MajklSpajkl’s incredible remote...
View ArticleProper PROFA Off-Road
This is a Tatra T813 8×8 PROFA trial truck and it’s epic. Yes, we just dropped the most over-used word on the internet, but we’re sticking with it. These amazing machines can traverse just about...
View ArticleCzech Mate
We are SO BORED of Brexit. Every day, all day, people shouting at one another. Racism, classism, elitism… every ‘ism’ you could wish for in one painfully tedious and never-ending argument. So whatever...
View ArticlePerfect 10
We don’t get many 10×10 trucks in TLCB’s home nation, but Eastern Europe seems to get far more exciting(?) machinery. Ok not this, this or this, but the vehicle in today’s post certainly is. It’s the...
View ArticleStreamliner
This is a Tatra T87, and it was one of the fastest and yet most fuel efficient cars of the era. Built from the mid-’30s to early-’50s the T87 was powered by rear-mounted air-cooled 2.9 litre V8 engine...
View ArticleWhat the Frack?
This is a Tatra T815-7 10×10. Plus a few other things. Built in collaboration across five companies and two continents, this remarkable machine is a mobile fracking rig, capable of extracting shale...
View ArticleTipping Tatra
Something remarkable appeared to be occurring today. Following the Elves’ peaceful trundle around the office in the back of an RC flatbed truck a few days ago, one of their number returned with this –...
View ArticlePhlattening Phoenix
It was a peaceful morning here at TLCB Towers. Some Elves were quietly watching cartoons, some TLCB Writers were… er, quietly watching cartoons, and all was well with the world. And then a...
View ArticleTwin Tatras
You wait ages for a Czech off-road truck, and then two come along at once. Or something like that. Anyway, we do have two awesome brick-built Tatras today, each representing a real world counterpart...
View ArticleBig Green Boxes
This is a Tatra PR3333 6×6 truck, outfitted with a hook-lift system and depicted in Dutch Army specification by Flickr’s Arian Janssens. We’re not sure what’s in the big green box it’s carrying, nor...
View ArticleRise of the Phoenix
We were going to title this post ‘Rise of the Phoenix’ until we realised that there was no suitable image of the tipper of Porsche96’s Tatra Phoenix 6×6 actually rising. But then we couldn’t think of...
View ArticleSuper 8
What’s better off-road than a 4×4? Two 4x4s. Bolted together. This is a Tatra T813 8×8 off-road truck, as recreated in Technic form by previous bloggee Horcik Designs for a Lego Truck Trial...
View ArticleSuper 8
The Lego Car Blog Elves are winding down for Christmas. They don’t need to of course – they’re Elves, basically designed to work during the festive period. And they don’t have rights. However, we...
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