Lego Carbon Racers: Pink Professional

A lineup of Tiny Turbos-style Lego cars is not complete without a stretch limo, and here's Carbon Racers' contribution: the Pink Professional! One of my favorite details about this model is that it's wide open for, shall we say, "artistic interpretation." That's a fancy way of saying this is a relatively basic build, so bricks can be easily substituted to make a car with varying artistic flairs.

This model was posted in time for Mother's Day 2022, and for me, it feels rather fitting. Why, you ask? Well . . . I don't know, because it's pink? Also, because who wouldn't want to give their mother a limo?

Part of me is thinking this model would be an electric limo in real life. I didn't add exhaust pipes in the back or a grill in the front.

I took some doing to ensure this car didn't go out of the frame during this 3D rotation gif.

Here's the Pink Professional's official Lego equivalent, the limo from set 8147, Bullet Run. Did any of you have this set back in the day? I never did, but with all those models, the built setting, and the two slammers (man, those slammers were the best), it looks like it was awesome.

While you're building this, just keep thinking, "How can I use different bricks to make the same basic thing?" Again, there are so many ways this can be built to make a personalized car.

First, yes, you could use one 2x6 plate instead of two 2x3 plates in Step 3, but then it'd be harder to separate those plates again in the future. Second, these wheel chassis pieces are not the ones that are usually used with Tiny Turbos models, but considering how common they are, we might as well have a Carbon Racer that uses them. Also, yes, I ran out of the standard Tiny Turbos chassis when I got around to making this model. "Not Enough Bricks," remember?

There's the back bumper. Not much to say about it.

I probably could have made this model with those 2x4 wheel arches, but then that straight-across taillight wouldn't have worked as well.

As those pink bricks get placed, I hope it's clear how they can easily be substituted for plates and/or bricks of different colors and sizes. With the middle of this car being the solid mass it is, it presents a great opportunity for designs--flames, a rainbow, whatever! In this case, I just chose to make a pink curve.

I definitely could've used a wheel arch on the front of this car. Then, instead of those two brackets in step 11, I could've just used a single different one--you know, the one that's two studs on top and eight studs on the side. The original Bullet Run limo didn't use them, though, and I was more than OK with saving the wheel arches for other models.

I don't think I've ever had a ride in a stretch limo before. Deprived childhood? I'll let you be the judge (although the answer is no; again, happy Mother's Day).

I mean, what even is the market for stretch limos nowadays? I've seen them before, even in the small town where I live, but it's not like they're hogging the streets on your average Saturday night. Maybe all I'm saying is I don't live in Vegas.

It's not that I want to live in Vegas, mind you; I have enough attention deficit problems as it is. Speaking of which, shouldn't I be talking about this model? Um . . . well, those horn pieces at the back are kind of an homage to that Bullet Run limo, but instead of angling them like Texas horns, I went for the stylish spoiler look.

I could've made that roof entirely smooth plates, but I love the way that grille piece looks like a skylight.

Fat wheels (to compensate for the narrow chassis pieces), and we're done!

That's it for the Pink Professional! Hope the blueprint wasn't too . . . LONG. Get it? Long? It's a stretch limo? Ugh. If models like these keep leading to more terrible puns, it's probably a good thing my next Carbon Racer is something completely different. It doesn't even have wheels.