With a creative
mind and the right LEGO pieces, you can recreate pretty much anything using the
small bricks. As for this enthusiast, he chose to immortalize the iconic BMW
M1, in both street-legal and racing guise.
The first one uses
986 pieces, whereas the wide body kit, rear wing and perhaps other updates over
the regular M1 have raised the number of bricks used to 1,059 in the racing
variant. Both feature opening doors, hoods and functioning steering, but, most
importantly, they look ready to hit the shelves.
Only before getting
LEGO’s blessing, they need enough votes, so if you dig the project, then you
may want to check out this link and support it. Produced between 1978 and 1981,
the BMW M1 was the brand’s first mid-engined supercar. It was designed by
Giorgetto Giugiaro and was initially assembled in Turin, Italy, before moving
to Munich, Germany, for the final process.
To this day, it
remains the company’s sole supercar, and with 453 units made, it’s no wonder
that its value has increased significantly. A couple of years ago, we saw one
listed for US$ 745,000. Since then, low-mileage examples are now
changing hands for just shy of € 1 million (US$ 1.1 million), whereas those that
are in have been driven more often go for more than € 500,000 (US$ 560,000).
