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Mercedes SLS AMG GT3 #66 Hankook C. Frankenhout / Simonsen 24 Hours of Nurburgring 2012 Minichamps 1:43

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Mercedes SLS AMG GT3 #66 Hankook C. Frankenhout / Simonsen 24 Hours of Nurburgring 2012 Minichamps 1:43 437123266 Diecast
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Minichamps' 1:43 diecast Mercedes SLS AMG GT3 reproduces car #66, Hankook's sister entry to car #65 driven by Frankenhout and Simonsen at the 2012 Nürburgring 24 Hours. The sealed one-piece body carries tampo-printed livery matching its stablemate, ideal for collectors who want to display a full team pairing rather than a single GT3 entry.
Mercedes SLS AMG GT3 #66 Hankook C. Frankenhout / Simonsen 24 Hours of Nurburgring 2012 Minichamps 1:43
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Car Brand
Mercedes
Model Manufacturer
Minichamps
Scale
1:43
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
New Model
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437123266
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About the Mercedes SLS AMG GT3 #66 Hankook C. Frankenhout / Simonsen 24 Hours of Nurburgring 2012 Minichamps 1:43

TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:43 diecast reproduces the #66 Hankook Mercedes SLS AMG GT3 driven by Frankenhout and Simonsen at the 2012 Nürburgring 24 Hours, a sealed one-piece body sharing its sponsor livery with sister car #65. Built for collectors who want the complete Hankook team pairing rather than a single entry.

Endurance teams rarely enter just one car at the Nürburgring 24 Hours, spreading risk and doubling the chances of a result across the field, and Hankook's 2012 effort followed that logic with two SLS AMG GT3s carrying matching sponsor colours. This diecast fixes the second of that pair, car #66, driven by Frankenhout and Simonsen, in the same tampo-printed livery as its stablemate.

Diecast Finish and Number 66 on the Nürburgring Grid

Minichamps builds car #66 to the same sealed, one-piece diecast standard as its sister entry, a construction that lets the Hankook sponsor livery run continuously across the bodywork without any hinge lines to interrupt the graphics. Tampo printing lays the branding, the number 66 and the smaller sponsor marks flat onto the shell, holding sharp registration that matches the sister car's finish closely enough for the two to sit convincingly side by side. Zinc alloy gives the model real heft, keeping the wide GT3 arch flares, the deep front splitter and the rear wing dimensionally accurate over years of display rather than drifting out of shape. The wheels carry the correct centre-lock racing design, and the ride height reads low and purposeful, consistent with a car built specifically for GT3 competition rather than adapted loosely from a road-going silhouette. Small differences from car #65, the exact placement of the number and a handful of secondary sponsor decals, are exactly the kind of detail that rewards close, side-by-side inspection rather than a glance from across the room. Some cockpit detail behind the tinted glazing is simplified at this scale, standard practice for any 1:43 diecast, but the exterior surfaces that carry the livery and the car's racing identity receive full, careful attention throughout, matching the quality established on the rest of the range.

A Second SLS AMG GT3 Voice From the Same Weekend

Running two or more cars under one sponsor banner was standard practice for manufacturer-backed GT3 efforts at the Nürburgring 24 Hours through the early 2010s, a race so attritional across its twenty-four hours on the combined Grand Prix and Nordschleife circuit that fielding multiple entries genuinely improved the odds of any car surviving to the finish. Frankenhout and Simonsen took the wheel of car #66 as part of that wider Hankook-backed effort, a driver pairing distinct from whoever shared car #65, and together the two SLS AMG GT3s represented Mercedes' commitment to the race rather than a single, isolated entry. The Nürburgring 24 Hours rewards teams that can keep a car running through changing weather, darkness and the Nordschleife's unforgiving mix of blind crests and compressions, and having a sister car on the same weekend meant Hankook's programme could learn from both entries simultaneously rather than relying on one data point. For collectors, that context turns cars #65 and #66 into something more interesting than two identical liveries: they represent two separate attempts at the same brutal race, run by different crews under the same colours, each with its own story even where the paintwork looks nearly the same. Seen individually, either car stands as a solid GT3 diecast; understood as a pair, they capture how seriously a manufacturer treated one of endurance racing's hardest single events.

Displaying #65 and #66 Side by Side

At 1:43, a matched pair of GT3 sister cars takes up barely more shelf space than one, making the Hankook duo an easy addition to any Nürburgring-themed display without demanding a dedicated cabinet. Positioned nose to tail or side by side, the shared livery with subtly different numbering and driver credits reads as a genuine team effort rather than two coincidentally similar models. Collectors who already own car #65 will find #66 the obvious next step for completing that specific weekend's story, while those starting fresh might reasonably choose either car as a standalone GT3 subject in its own right. Either way, this is a rare case where owning both entries genuinely adds more than the sum of two individual purchases. That is worth remembering before choosing just one.

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