A car in a Day – A Lego Technic building challenge.

[Paul B Technic]

A car in a Day – A Lego Technic building challenge.

Yesterday I had a day free to myself and wanted to build something, I decided to set myself a challenge to build a car from scratch in a day. The limits I had was that I only had a day (8 Hours) and I was limited to only the pieces from 8068 (Rescue Helicopter) and 9395 (Pickup Truck) to build this.

I had done no prior planning on this; I woke up and decided to do it. The idea I had was to build a car with as many features as possible and which looked and worked in a realistic manner.

I managed to build the car with the following features:

- Working steering connected to the steering wheel in the car.

- V4 engine (Real mounted)

- Working differential

- Opening rear hood

- Opening doors

- Adjustable seats

- Working hand brake

I had wanted to add pop up headlights but after spending some time trying to add these I could not get them to work how I wanted so I removed these and just mounted the lights at the front, maybe in “Version 2” I will be able to add these and get them working.

Overall I am quite pleased with how it ended up, the limit on what pieces I had meant that some of the colours are not quite how I would like, still I think it looks quite good.

Now for the photos :)

http://mizibunktechnic.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/a-car-in-day-lego-technic-building.html

[DLuders]

That's a nice MOC! Happy New Year!

[Paul B Technic]

Thanks, I am glad you like it :)

[shadowhearth]

Good job m8. Did it took 8 hours to do, or you managed to pull it out faster? I presume you mostly used pick up truck parts for this? Lovely set with nice parts for price, but no suspension :(

[piterx]

well done dude! nice moc :)

[Alasdair Ryan]

Nice car.

I tried the 'what can you build in a day' idea earlier this year.

The four hour build.

[legomuppet9]

I'm going to try this tomorrow , and I will restrain myself from motorising it... and I will probably motorise the drive and steering...

Edited January 1, 2013 by legomuppet9

[Paul B Technic]

Thanks for the feedback. I don't have an springs or I would have tried to add suspension. I am going to try this again in the future, maybe with a different type of build.

[DarkShadow73]

Very nice for an 8 hour project...one question that hasn't been asked though, a working handbrake? How does it operate? I'm rather intrigued as I've never seen this type of feature on any Technic car...please do elaborate

[Paul B Technic]

Thanks for the feedback. The working hand brake is a axle with a 8 tooth gear which shifts in to the rear different to lock it. I think one of the photos on my blog shows it close up (I am typing this on my phone)

Edited January 3, 2013 by Paul B

[Paul B Technic]

Well here is a video I took of it in action before I broke it down to use the pieces in another MOC I am building.

http://mizibunktechn...-car-video.html

Edited January 11, 2013 by Paul B

[Paul B Technic]

With the changes to my blog this car now has a new page :)

http://mizibunktechnic.blogspot.com.au/p/moc-car-in-day.html