Vintage set of the week: Antique Car
Posted by Huwbot,
This week's vintage set is 329 Antique Car, released during 1967. It's one of 14 System sets produced that year. It contains 124 pieces.
It's owned by 199 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you might find it for sale at BrickLink or eBay.
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Shoot, a Vintage Antique? That's like, an Old Grandma, kind of just comes with the territory, no need to emphasize it.
I love this set, it's a shame Lego stopped making veteran and vintage cars :(
I'd love to see a minifig scale version of this model, and more wheels like this! We really need some more diversity when it comes to wheels in Lego, especially for older model cars.
And don't think thats limiting or niche, for example, the Adventurers wheels which were perfect for vintage cars were used as greebling/engines on the Millennium Falcon.
Ok car gurus - what car could it be based off of? I say a "Tin Lizzie" otherwise known as a Ford Model T.
It was available in any shade you wanted it in, as long as that color was black!
It’s antique antique! ANTIQUECEPTION!
Recently I went through the database with my kids and looked at the earliest years of Lego. I started at the beginning and went through to the early nineties (my childhood era). Before that, I didn’t quite have a full picture of how prolific they were with sets. Specifically years before things like classic space and castle. I was familiar with sets from each era, but not with the volume and variety of sets. It was a fun deep dive.
@Brickchap:
Looks like the same scale as Speed Champions.
Considering the parts available at the time, this is top notch. As an aside, I prefer when the tires are black but this only happened the following year (1968). In 1968 tires in gray and black were available eventually migrating to only black..
@PurpleDave Mate do you see the size of those wheels? "Speed Champions scale" Are you sure about that?
The wheels should be smaller and the windscreen 4 wide to be normal minifig scale.
Oh wow. My dad had those classic headlight brick pieces, and I believe those wheels too.
No missiles or stud shooters, that's rubbish, looks like Lego missed a trick :)
The time between the present and this set's release is roughly the same as the time between this set and the car style it's modeled after.
I love the photography: no background picture, light coming directly from the left, top perspective, model partially cropped out of photo.
Oh, you, pretty Chitty Bang-Bang, bricky Chitty Bang-Bang we love you
Now an update of this, but sticking as close to original as possible would be a brilliant LEGO @90 GWP!!
It’s owned by 199 Bricksetters. I wonder if any of those 199 were acquired when the set was released and owned by the same person all this time.
8 wide Speed Champions avant la lettre!
Love these old school bigger sets. Apart from the wheels just very generic pieces, yet endless possibilities. I mean, there's not even a headlight brick, it's just a tiny window piece. Pure goodness....
@PurpleDave said:
" @Brickchap:
Looks like the same scale as Speed Champions."
Just without the Speed...
This set well predates my LEGO collection--heck, it well predates ME--but I love it. As a set this reminds me of a LEGOland sculpture: carved right out of LEGO brick marble. Those giant red wheels with the white tires are sweet.
In an over-saturated 18+ multi-hundreds of dollars LEGO market, something that looks like THIS is what I'd actually want as a display piece.
This aged well. Really, really well. Not only is it a vintage set, but it's also a model of something that was definitely vintage in the 70s. So in a weird way it loops back to being timeless by embracing the old so well.
@Brickchap:
8-wide…
Those wheels today: I have spoken.
@PurpleDave said:
" @Brickchap:
8-wide…"
Isn't it 6-wide? I normally don't count the wheels or running boards as part of the "stud width," but is that the normal convention? Even at 8-wide, it seems like it would be a lot taller than today's Speed Champions, but maybe that's just down to the style of car. At the very least, it shows that an 8-wide Speed Champions version of the Antique Car could be successful!
@ ForestMenOfEndor:
One of the other guys in my LUG designed a Model T (and then he and a few other members built many variants on that design). The fenders, wheel, and running boards are all six studs wide. The body is four. I’ve never asked him, but I consider them to be 6-wides. For one thing, it keeps the terms consistent between antique and modern cars. It also deals with the fact that the wheels are entirely outside of the body if you count this as 6-wide. With this, it gets messier because the model, and especially the front seat, looks too narrow compared to the profile.
Just looking at the instructions....it's interesting to see there's only 7 steps....and at that point you still don't have wheels attached. Guess you'll have to figure out all on your own :-)
Also some pretty interesting alternate builds. Like I said earlier: Just pure goodness....
This is great.
Slightly off topic, I would totally buy a Speed Champions Model T, or similar vintage car.
@Yardsale19X Glad to hear it! I love vintage and veteran cars (also classic cars) and we need them in Speed Champions!
I'd call it Speed Champions: Legends or something like that and do various famous cars (and maybe even other vehicles) from since whenever the first motor carriage was invented to roughly the early 1960s. Eg Rolls Royce Silver Ghost (1909), Model T Ford, MG 1935 roadster, Citroen Traction Avant, Citroen 2CV, Topolino (1936) London Taxi, 1955 Chevy Bel Air etc. etc. All minifig scale of course. Those are just examples.
I'd love to see some more generic civilian cars in SC, by which I mean interesting ones not just completely regular boring cars, but especially vintage ones. I'm surprised Lego hasn't done any vintage race cars yet like 1950s 'cigar shape' racer (with the air intake at the front), classic 1930s racecar (eg W25 Silver Arrow), 1928 Bently Six Litre, Bugatti 35 etc. etc.
@Yardsale19X said:
"This is great.
Slightly off topic, I would totally buy a Speed Champions Model T, or similar vintage car. "
100% agreed!
These 'hobby' sets didn't really take off until 1975 with 390-2 1913 Cadillac, 391-1 1926 Renault and 395-1 1909 Rolls-Royce, which had unusual white rims. If you are thinking of purchasing ask for lots of photos first as the plastic has generally aged really badly mainly as kids would rebuilt and include into every single model they made back then, rather than just leave the original as a display piece.