Lego Indiana Jones - Shanghai Chase Nr. 7682 recreated - 1927-31 REO Flying Cloud

            One of the sets of the Indiana Jones Lego Themes was Nr. 7682 Shanghai Chase.

Identifying the models in the movie was somewhat difficult though. The lead car, shown here was pretty straight forward. There were not very many Boat Tail Speedsters built during the 1930's, and the archetype was the Auburn 851.

The chase car was harder to track down though. As a movie 'The Temple of Doom' was released long before the internet and digital media - and hence 'doesn't exist before the internet'. I will endevour to identify it one day and build it also.

Fortunately our eager-eyed readers identified the car for me as the 1927-31 REO Flying Cloud. REO was a car company founded by Ransom E. Olds (who earlier founded Oldsmobile - later part of General Motors) in 1905. Car production ensued, through to 1935. The form continued, by manufacturing trucks and busses through the Second World War. The company struggled postwar, and was reorganised in bankruptcy in 1954.

The 1927-31 Flying Cloud and 1931 Royale were the zenith of REO's automobile quality and production, but like many firms of high-class automobiles in the US, the stock market crash and Great Depression left a fatal blow to the company's fortunes (capital, facility and manpower).

This Lego model recreation is created in miniland scale. For this model the chassis includes steering, rear suspension, and a straight-three (equivalent to straight-6 package) lego piston engine.

This Lego model had been created in Lego Digital Designer for Flickr LUGNuts 54th Build Challenge - "LEGO Set Overhaulin" - celebrating all things Lego with recreations of original sets. The REO model has been created later to accompany the earlier Auburn 851 Speedster

Taken on: June 5, 2012

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