Name: Car Chassis
Brand: LEGO
SKU: 8860-1
Rating: 89 (4 reviews)

Car Chassis is LEGO set 8860-1. It has a score of 89. This is good compared to all other sets. The set is recommended by 3 reviews, based on 4 scored reviews and 4 reviews total. It is ranked in the top 10.44% scored sets on Brick Insights. We know this set was released in 1980, and it is categorised in Technic.

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Recommendations

Recomended 75%

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Price Per Part (PPP)

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Review breakdown

Scored reviews

The LEGO Car Blog Recommendation: yes 10 / 10 → 100 / 100

Lugnet Recommendation: yes 91 / 100 → 91 / 100

Brickset Recommendation: yes 4.3 / 5 → 86 / 100

The Rambling Brick Recommendation: meh 4 / 5 → 80 / 100

Set information

Set ID: 8860-1
Name: Car Chassis
Parts: 668

More sets:

1980 Technic

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The LEGO Car Blog

Recommendation: yes 10 / 10 by The LEGO Car Blog Team

Overall, this superb set deserves a 10/10 – it might not be flawless but, for the time, it's deeply impressive and still stands up today as a good-looking, effective model. Get one and you'll see why it was good enough to sit at the top of the Technic tree for eight years.

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Lugnet

Recommendation: yes 91 / 100 from 68 reviews

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Brickset

Recommendation: yes 4.3 / 5 from 20 reviews

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The Rambling Brick

Recommendation: meh 4 / 5 by Richard

For the sake of completeness, I give the car chassis 4 Arbitrary praise units: it is fun to roll, has a functioning gear box as well as steering and moving pistons. The lack of a rear wheel differential does make turning a corner feel a little harder than it should: I will probably disconnect the rear wheels from each to allow smoother cornering. This will, however render the vehicle functionally a one wheel drive. Will I return to university and study mechanical engineering as a direct result of this experience? No: in part because I love what I do otherwise. But I shall probably look at incorporating more mechanisms into my MOC's, and have a greater appreciation of what technic builders are achieving.

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