11:46:19  -  @LEGO_Group It only took me 32 years to finish the 8860, but I have an excuse... http://t.co/BYNcht5y #epic #lego #win http://t.co/TDPmLCZW

 11:37:51  -  @LEGO_Group It only took me 32 years to finish the 8860, but I have an excuse... http://t.co/BYNcht5y #epic #lego #win http://t.co/H88oA5de

 11:22:12  -  @LEGO_Group It took me 32 years to build the 8860. But I have a reason... http://t.co/BYNcht5y #epic #lego #win :) http://t.co/a8MumvBl

 17:42 UTC  -  Maybe one of the reasons I love Lego is that I never had very much of it as a child. When everyone else got a space cruiser, I got the scout ship. If the new toy was a combine harvester, I got last years tractor. And so on. So it's no surprise that the 8860, the technic car chassis, was my geeklust. I was thankful for every present I got, but my parents couldn't afford it, so I did what my parents always said they did as children in this scenario – and go without! But, over the years, I've amassed enough Lego to build half of it – in mismatching colours, and alternate bricks – using the instruction book, I found as a PDF, online. So, 32 years later than advertised, I finally lived my boyhood dream of making the 8860. Fuller story on: http://legopunk.com/?q=node/202