Clean Record

This is the last vehicle I have in my collection of personal cars. And what vehicle! Nothing less than the fastest car in the world! This rocket car is able to break the sound barrier easily, but I try to avoid that on open roads. I don't use it very often, granted, but it is pretty convenient if I'm late to a meeting. I'm even able to depart after the time at which the meeting should have started and still get there ahead of time.

Hope you liked the vehicles shown so far! See you if I purchase a new vehicle or for a post about a guest vehicle!

Lego Technic Set 42033

Rail-Road Vehicle

One thing I like is vehicles combining several modes of transportation in one. The following rail-road service truck is a perfect example of that. Once again, it is the only element of Lego City Set 3677 I have got, having ordered from Lego the few parts I missed to complete the truck. I changed for example the color of the railings in the back, but the most important addition I made is a coupler in the rear to allow my truck to be towed by my 60052 locomotive. By lowering the special wheels in the back and in the front, the truck is able to be driven on the rails themselves, either coupled to a train or engine or independently. Note that I also added an extra powerful light on the roof for lighting night work. 

Truck from Lego City Set 3677

Expedition Camper Van

There is only two vehicles left for me to show you after this one; and then, you'll have to wait until I add to my collection or that I present you a guest vehicle for you to read another post... But for now, this is the vehicle I worked on the most in my whole collection : my expedition ready extreme camper van. The base of the truck is Lego City Set Snow Plow 60083, with an added cab section and slightly extended. For the rear section, I used the caravan from Lego City Set 60117, which I modified to make it eight studs wide instead of six. Oh, and the spare wheel comes from Lego City Set 60126!

Lego Mod Expedition Camper Van

Red Motorbike

That's not because I have got a simple scooter and a bicycle that I don't have also a proper motorbike! And this one is... oh! Red! Like the other ones! How original! This civilian motorbike is the same model as the one originally developed for police use, and the custom made saddlebags have also been developed for those police bikes. 

Lego City Set 60000

It's easier for me to ride this type of bike since I got rid of my spare tire recently (though I still have the saddlebags!), but I'm also quite sedentary in the summer season (despite all those cars I own! How paradoxical!), and have yet to enjoy a long ride on my bike...

Digging Loaders

This thing is mean, badass and really powerful, and it has never seen a speck of dust! Despite me having my own construction and heavy machinery company, the present front loader is part of my private collection and like most of my vehicles, rarely used. I like heavy equipment for their sheer power, ingenuity and beauty, and collect them without necessarily having the need for their use!

Lego Technic Set 42032

Snowmobile

Still waiting for some snow here! In July, better be prepared for some disappointment though! Just a few words about my snowmobile, which I bought because I needed a 2 x 6 flat orange tile (the one I forgot to order) to complete my snow crawler number 2, and the present little set having even two of those, I just used the one that formed the base of the very simple trailer, and thus ended up having got this snowmobile, I didn't even need to take apart.

Note the front skis though : pretty interesting element that could be used in place of the front wheels of my half-track, to give the vehicle extra proficiency on snow and ice, and give it something of the look of the first vehicles of this type, in particular the ones engineered by Adolphe Kégresse for the Tsar of Russia is the early 20th century. (Although Kégresse's vehicles had skis underneath the front wheels, wheels that weren't removed, it still is an option for a half-track to have skis in lieu of wheels). I hope to show you this configuration in pictures, possibly on real snow! But in how many years?

Lego City Set 60032

Please, also note my only modification here, replacing the existing front red lights by white ones.

Half-Track

From Lego City Set 60071

There is I think, paradoxically, a sense of fragility and vulnerability in all armoured vehicles. Granted, when aboard them, you're protected from a greater or lesser amount of offensive weapons depending on the age of your vehicle and its type of armour, and you may have weapons aboard yourself. And yet, the fact that you are in such a vehicle in the first place, and that you are protected, and armed, is just a proof that you are a target from the start, for whatever reason, and all who try to destroy a target will find in the end a weak point to do so. 

You should certainly feel more vulnerable than protected if you were to go to war nowadays in an open style half-track vehicle such as mine. Even with a machine gun on the roof!

Fortunately, mine is just a civilian version which just happens to have a machine gun on the roof, more for looks than for anything else, and because all good half track must have one! 

This vehicle is, I guess, a MOD, for modified vehicle, as I worked on the base of the Lego half track from City Set 60071 and modified it. I made it longer, added two ladders to climb to the cab, made the bed bigger and added benches all around, added a gate at the rear which, when open, becomes a ladder to help you climb in. I fixed a winch in the front and beefed up the bumper. Oh, and did I mention the machine gun on the roof?

I do not own set 60071 and ordered from Lego the parts for this one (got the wrong wheels, asked for the right ones, got the right ones, and there we are).

Arctic Crawler 2

I had already got my first Arctic Crawler for two years maybe when I decided this wasn't a reason not to have a second one, especially this one which I found particularly attractive. Having no use for a plane though and no money to put in a plane or anything I don't need, I referred to the instructions for the crawler and ordered the parts needed directly from Lego. After some mishap due to the wrong type of wheels having been sent by Lego (but when I complained by email, they very rapidly contacted me back and sent me the right ones in the end), and when I had my hand on a 2 x 6 orange tile I had forgotten to order (so we're equal!), I finally managed to put that one together, added some details, and here we are!

From Lego City set 60064

I added two lights on the front, because when the blade is up you can't use the two original lights to light the road! I added the chimney stack and the antenna alongside it. I added the the roof rack to which the top of the chimney stack is secured. I added a short ladder to help me get to the roof where I placed two more lights to light the rear (very useful when you do some work by night, like looking for something in you trailer or securing it for instance), a small satellite dish and a couple more warning lights. The covered on the side contain a fire extinguisher, binoculars and a pick axe (I think!) and I have a pair of skis and batons inside the cab. You surely feel very secure and snow storm ready in this one, even in the worst arctic conditions!

There is only one seat in the middle of the cab, and you drive like you drive a tank, by using two control sticks. Let's hope for some snow this winter!

On Yer Bike!

You start to see a pattern emerging in my two wheel vehicles, right? Right! As for now, They're all red! (OK, technically the scooter cum side-car unit has three wheels, four if you count the spare.) Not much to say on this one; this is a bike!

Lego bike

2016 Rally Car

Lego City set 60113

I'm not that fond of sports cars. (I don't like'em in fact.) However, as soon as I saw this one pictured on the internet at the end of last year before its release, I knew I had to have it. It just looks nice! Plus it's cheap. What could you ask for?

This is one the newest additions to my collection, if not the newest, and I show it to you now, not to go through my vehicles in a chronological order. No additions or modifications to this one (except a licence plate at the rear, maybe? I don't even remember!), it is just as its designers designed it, I even applied the stickers, which I don't always do, but it makes perfect sense here! 

Oh! And drive carefully on open roads! Even behind the wheel of a rally car! Don't be an arse!

Tutti a Bordo! (Tous à Bordeau!)

I've shown you until now vehicles of mine hardly modified, if at all. But this one is different! I had to have a "Vespa" scooter, and as soon as I got one, I decided to build a small side-car to go with it. And before anyone of you mentions, yes, I know I'll get nowhere if nobody seats on the scooter to drive!

Lego "Vespa" and MOC side-car

The build was not that easy for its size, or because of its size, rather : at such a tiny scale, you can't mess around, you rather have the good part and the good idea to use it, or you don't! If the weather is nice later in the summer, maybe I'll use this one outside the photo studio and along the beach!

Ciao belle!

That Rocks!

Lego Technic set 42001

This is the ultimate all terrains vehicle in my collection, and, dare I say? Maybe in all Couteau. Crazy suspension, you can climb anything and those huge tires certainly help. Once again, I was for a time the only lucky folk to own such tires in Couteau, (on several vehicles), but once again, I'm not any more! And once again, it is my only fault as I offered a 4 x 4 equipped of those tires to a VIP of my acquaintances. But anyway, the most important is not the size of you tires but what you do with them. For me, I hardly ever use this car, but still, I'm glad to have it, for sure!

4 x 4

This 4 x 4, the second car of this collection I bought, has barely been modified either. I certainly didn't alter the design of it, and the additions I made to it are minor. And more importantly, I never took it apart for scrap! The reason why I still have it in pristine condition is simple : this off-roader is awesome! I drive it regularly (though not quite as much recently) for private errands as well as on official law enforcement duty. A con I could mention is the narrowness of the cab : it is a bit of a tight squeeze for two, and even sometimes for one, depending on your size and your head-wear!

Lego City set 4437

I have to say, anecdotally, I was the first one to have such big wheels on an everyday car in Couteau, but now this type of wheels have become fairly common, of course (and partly because of me!). But next time, I'll show you a car (still road legal!) with even bigger wheels!

Arctic Crawler

Without further ado, this is the first vehicle I bought in 2013, was it? I still enjoy it very much, and it is an early testimony to my taste for tracked vehicles. It is so well done I didn't modify it, just added the yellow and blue warning lights on the roof, and that's it!

Lego City set 60033

This very nice and compact vehicle is quite useful to patrol the grounds around the palace of Versailles where a lot of marshy and boggy areas remain. It may come in handy in case of snow as well, but I'm not even sure there was snow in Versailles since I own this crawler. Or maybe once? Anyway, the bed (as they say in the US) is quite helpful for transporting goods or men alike -- although I suppose not that confortable for the latter; but I usually drive myself or don't ride at all. So, who cares?

Versatile, solid and easy to drive (the crawler is equipped with a steering wheel), this vehicle remains one of my favorites in my entire collection.

Please, note that all the vehicles presented on this blog are my own personal ones and may not be bought, rented nor borrowed. On demand tours of my collection may be available for VIPs only. If you are interested or have any question about the vehicles, please contact my staff or my secretariat.