Vintage Lego Builds

Rebuilding forgotten Lego that were missing instructions

Young kids

  • 400-4 Basic Tow Truck

    400-4 Basic Tow Truck

    Let’s rebuild this basic vintage tow truck visible on this leaflet circled in black. This is extracted from set 400-4 introducing small wheels with axles to the Lego inventory. It has 4 wheels with old light gray tires. Hopefully I get dozens of them so I will be able to build it. Let’s see what…

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  • 400-4 Red vintage car

    400-4 Red vintage car

    Today we build this little red car with a long nose circled in black on this picture. This is extracted from set 400-4 leaflet. This set introduced the small wheels with axles to the Lego inventory. It is fairly easy to build and doesn’t require much bricks. I have asked AI to render a realistic…

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  • 400-4 Vintage basic racing car

    400-4 Vintage basic racing car

    This vintage basic racing car is designed on this leaflet extracted from set 400-4 introducing small wheels with axles to Lego inventory. It is fairly easy to build except for the trans-clear macaroni brick on the top that is supposed to represent the windscreen of the car. I don’t think this is realistic to set…

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  • Set 400-4 : Vintage simple car

    Set 400-4 : Vintage simple car

    Let’s build this very basic small white car with no doors visible on this Set 400-4 leaflet, introducing small wheels with axles to the Lego inventory. It is fairly easy to build and only take few minutes. I am not sure if this is inspired from a Jeep or something else. Anyways, here’s my proposal….

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  • 400-4 Vintage Paddy Wagon

    400-4 Vintage Paddy Wagon

    Let’s build this nice vintage car out of Lego System set 400-4 introducing small wheels with axle to the pieces assortment. It is easy to build and renders nice. It looks like a vintage paddy wagon. I have asked AI to generate a IRL version of it and the result is pretty cool : All…

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  • 400-4 : Vintage utility car

    400-4 : Vintage utility car

    This nice vintage utility car is extracted from this leaftlet ideas out of box 400-4 introducing wheels with axles. It is a simple yet nice vintage car made mainly of slopes, plates and bricks without bottom tubes. The 2 windows at the front come with extended lip and glass, as in set 315-3. Easy to…

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  • Set 400-2 : Garage

    Set 400-2 : Garage

    On this picture extracted from sets 400-2 or 400-3 introducing wheels with axle, we can see various trucks, characters and a garage to host them all. On this page we will describe how to build this garage. It is not set on baseplate, and uses vintage baseplates as a roof that will not “Snap” on…

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  • Set 400-2 : Ambulance

    Set 400-2 : Ambulance

    The ambulance we will build today can be seen in the diorama from set 400-2 / 400-3 introducing wheels with axles into the Lego pieces scope. All the builds of that picture can all be found on that page. It comes with 2 figures from medical staff. All built of basic bricks, plates and slopes….

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  • Set 400-2 : Tow Truck

    Set 400-2 : Tow Truck

    As we can see on this nice diorama extracted from set 400-2 / 400-3 introducing wheels with axles into the Lego pieces scope, the are several vehicles and a casern that can all be found on that page. Here we will try to build the tow truck. To propose instructions and inventory, I based myself…

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  • Set 305-2 Fire Engine

    Set 305-2 Fire Engine

    In this page we are going to rebuild the fire truck visible on the left side of the picture, in the kid’s hand, associated to the fireman basic character in black. These elements present in this diorama out of set 400-2 are in fact the set 305-2 called Fire Engine. This set was coming with…

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