Spooky Speedsters

Everyone’s favorite haunted holiday is here, and builders are celebrating all over the world. Everywhere you scroll there’s spookiness, and these hotrods by builder ianying616 are as cool as they are frightening. The big question is who would win? My money is on Batman, you know he has some tricks up his sleeve.

Paddy Wagon

A large portion of my childhood was dedicated to the construction of plastic model kids. I had lots of favorites, the Aurora monster kits for instance, but the ones that really stand out were the Tom Daniel hotrods from Monogram. I built them all, some more than once. So this brilliant rendition of Paddy Wagon by Norton74 is a huge nostalgia rush for me. The detail is amazing, and there’s so much shiny I can’t stand it (I think I have an additional chrome-osome…get it?)

CrocRod

Hotrods are all about attitude. Crocodiles are pretty much all about attitude too. So when those two intersect the results essentially own the road. Meet CrocRod The Black Caiman by builder ianying616. A black on black beast of a rod with loads of horsepower, chrome and fury. Now kindly get off the road or get eaten, you have been warned.

Red Skull's Ratrod

I have no idea what the genesis of this is. From a comic, from builder 2nd Life Bricks' imagination? I don't know, or care really, because it's awesome. And I could totally see Red Skull barreling down the highway in this beast, I like to imagine with classical music playing on the stereo (very loudly to be heard over that massive engine). Hail Hydra!

Black & White

Contrast is important in all art mediums. It's an indicator of depth, a delineation between objects, the demarkation of negative and positive space, a guidance of the eye. It's also important in the bricks, and as you can see from these excellent hotrods from builder ianying616 it can make a striking impact with separate but combined MOCs as well.

Surf's Up

Growing up a native Californian 11 miles from the beach you'd naturally think I surf. And truth be told I did have a board and wetsuit in high school. But I was terrible, I mean truly awful. But that doesn't diminish my appreciation of this pair of beach ready rides from Norton74. Especially that sweet type 2, it even has a boom box to crank up some Surfpunks and some Coke, my kinda beach day.

Steamy T

We've seen a number of T-bucket hotrods from builder Norton74 lately, but none with a steampunk vibe. Not so much from a boiler, gears and plumbing standpoint, it even has a classic oversized V8 engine, but the color scheme and deco says "put on your tails, grab your top hat and let's go motoring"

Super Volks

They were ridiculous, they were brash, they were driverless, they were the Zingers, model kits from MPC. Back in the 70's it seemed you couldn't get outrageous enough (just ask Chuck Barris or ABBA) and hotrods were no exception. Builder Mad physicist clearly understands this mentality and has recreated my personal favorite from this line, the Super Volks. Who cares if it doesn't actually have seats? Just imagine how loud and fast it is! 

Purple People Eater

This gnarly beast from builder tiler reminds me of a Hotwheel I had as a kid. Not having collected Hotwheels since I was 7 or so means I have not thought if it in four decades. But for some reason, as soon as I saw this MOC it all came flooding back. The track clamped to my dresser, the loop only specific cars could actually make, and the one that looked an awful lot like this purple monster. That one not only made the loop, but could clear the jump at the end too. Vroooom!

Beer Wagon

This isn't the first time we've seen Tom Daniel's classic show rod Beer Wagon in brick form, but it just might be the cleanest. Builder Norton74 knows that sometimes you just can't deliver beer fast enough.

Frankenstein

Hotwheels, Classic monsters, and LEGO, it's a match made in heaven. This latest wheeled offering from Lino M makes my heart go pitter patter. I spent many a happy hour as a child playing with my Hotwheels, and I was a fan of Universal's classic monsters. Combine those with Lino's top-notch building skills, and you have this awesome hot rod MOC.

Surfer's T-Bucket

Growing up in California, hotrods and surfer cars were a fairly common sight. But for builder Norton74 from Italy, this was a complete unknown. Happily he has discovered hotrods, and this is the first of what should be many radical customs. This thing would look totally at home cruising PCH in Malibu.

Fire Bucket

Here's something that goes Vroom! This radical hot rod by sm 01 goes by Fire Bucket, and it's pretty badass. The engine details are excellent, the touches of chrome are tasteful and not over done, the flames are tasteful (as far as flames go). And as if that wasn't enough, this bad boy is motorized and has lights! Check out the video below.

Vanbulance

As a kid I built plastic model kits, a lot of plastic model kits. Besides planes and cars, I also loved the cool classic monster kits. But my favorites were over-the-top hotrods like this one, the Vanbulance. Builder LinoM has recreated this classic hot rod from 1974, and the results are stunning.

Rat Fink

Cool! It's Big Daddy Roth's counterculture icon and hotrod legend RatFink! LEGO designer extraordinaire Adam Grabowski built this awesome MOC and while it contains a ton of customization, since he's a LEGO designer we'll let him off the hook. 

American Graffiti

I remember seeing American Graffiti when I was a kid. It couldn't have been when it was originally released because I was only 5, but I remember seeing it in a theater (we mainly went because it had Richie Cunningham and cool cars in it). I do recall being quite smitten with this beast, and I still am, especially rendered in my favorite bricks by none other than the Mad Physicist himself.