I've always wanted to build a large scale classic car as a kid, but somehow such a projects never saw the light of day back then. But thanks to the internet, now I finished such a project after all. It all started when I found the pictures of Fredrik Glöckner's Classical Racing Car using the Wheels of the 8422 „V-Twin Super Bike“.

I thought that these large spoke wheels were perfect for building a classic car.

But I didn’t have any of those and the 8422 set was discontinued at that time. So the project was on hold, even when I found one sealed 8422 box at the very back of a shelf in a large department store.

But some day in 1999 I didn’t believe my eyes when I spotted a whole pile of 8422 boxes at a supermarket (along with one lonely 5521 „Sea Jet“ box). So I bought 2 additional 8422 boxes (and of course the 5521 box). With a supply of 6 wheels the project could finally begin. I had specific ideas of how the car I wanted to build should look like. It should be a 2-seated roadster with spare tires on either side of the car and those exhaust pipes coming out at the side of the hood. I searched the net for some reference pictures, but I didn't quite find the car I was looking for.

The car that came closest was the Mercedes SSK, but a first Lego prototype didn't look very promising with those rather thin spoke wheels.
But then I found a picture of a "modern" classic car in some magazine. It was an article about bodyguards, and you could only see the car partially, but my friend told me that this car was an "Excalibur".

So I searched the Internet again, and surprisingly enough I found info at Camelot Classic Cars!
I decided to build such a "modern" classic car, using the much wider tires from the 8880 Supercar, and so I didn't use those large spoke wheels (which took so long to acquire) after all ... oh well.

The Excalibur emblem on the top of the radiator grille is actually a minifig scale spanner.

I used the dark gray slope bricks from the 7184 set for the top of the radiator grille and the clear dishes from the 7121 set combined with model team rims for the headlights. For the top of the hood I used the white plane wings from the 2879 set. 12-wide black arches were used for the rear fenders.

Good thing I bought an additional arch once from someone selling spare parts. At that time I thought two is always better than one, but didn't exactly know what it might be good for sometimes. Now I know.

Later I replaced the black exhaust pipes with silver ones from the 8458 "Silver Champion". The building time of this model was only one (holiday) week.
Length: 59cm, width: 21.5cm.
Actually it was quite a long time after finishing the Lego model when I saw a "real" Excalibur for the first time.