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Porsche 935/78 Moby Dick #43 R. Stommelen / M. Schurti 24 Hours of Le Mans 1978 Minichamps 1:43

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Minichamps' 1:43 diecast Porsche 935/78 "Moby Dick" reproduces car #43 as campaigned at the 1978 Le Mans 24 Hours by Rolf Stommelen and Manfred Schurti. A silhouette-era icon rendered in small-scale diecast for Group 5 and Le Mans collections.
Porsche 935/78 Moby Dick #43 R. Stommelen / M. Schurti 24 Hours of Le Mans 1978 Minichamps 1:43
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Specifications
Car Brand
Porsche
Model Manufacturer
Minichamps
Scale
1:43
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
430786743
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About the Porsche 935/78 Moby Dick #43 R. Stommelen / M. Schurti 24 Hours of Le Mans 1978 Minichamps 1:43

TL;DR: This Minichamps 1:43 diecast reproduces the Porsche 935/78 "Moby Dick", entered as #43 at Le Mans 1978 with Rolf Stommelen and Manfred Schurti. Small-scale diecast captures the car's elongated tail and flat nose, the silhouette that made this the most extreme Group 5 racer Porsche ever built.

Nothing in 1970s sports car racing looked quite like the 935/78. Its nickname alone tells you what mattered most about the shape: length, and how little the rulebook actually said about it.

Reproducing an Extreme Silhouette at 1:43

The 935/78 stretched Porsche's Group 5 interpretation further than any other 935 variant, with a flattened nose and a tail extended well beyond the standard 911-derived bodywork to smooth airflow at speeds few sports cars of the era reached. Reproducing that elongated profile convincingly at 1:43 is harder than it looks, since a body this unusual has no familiar reference points to anchor the eye. Minichamps holds the proportions true to the full-size car rather than compressing the tail for a tidier box shape, which is where a lesser diecast would compromise. The Martini-adjacent livery cues and period sponsor decals stay sharp at this scale, and the model's low, wide stance still reads as aggressive next to a standard 911 RSR on the same shelf.

Moby Dick at Le Mans 1978

Car #43 ran at the 1978 Le Mans 24 Hours in the hands of Rolf Stommelen and Manfred Schurti, one of the most talked-about entries of that race simply for how the 935/78 looked on the Mulsanne Straight against everything else on track. The car's raw top speed was the story of the weekend regardless of the final result, a demonstration of how far the silhouette-racing rules of the period could be stretched.

A Centrepiece for a Group 5 Collection

Few Group 5 subjects carry this much visual drama, which makes the Moby Dick a natural anchor piece for a Porsche or Le Mans-themed cabinet, best displayed with room either side so the tail extension is not cramped against a neighbour.

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