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BMW 3.5 CSL E9 Gr.5 #5 K.W.M. Racing K. Miller / D. Cowart 6 Hours of Watkins Glen 1979 Minichamps 1:18

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BMW 3.5 CSL E9 Gr.5 #5 K.W.M. Racing K. Miller / D. Cowart 6 Hours of Watkins Glen 1979 Minichamps 1:18 180792005 Diecast
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Minichamps' 1:18 diecast BMW 3.5 CSL E9 Gr.5 wears the KWM Racing #5 livery of K. Miller and D. Cowart's 1979 6 Hours of Watkins Glen entry. A North American chapter of the CSL's silhouette racing story.
BMW 3.5 CSL E9 Gr.5 #5 K.W.M. Racing K. Miller / D. Cowart 6 Hours of Watkins Glen 1979 Minichamps 1:18
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Specifications
Car Brand
BMW
Model Manufacturer
Minichamps
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
180792005
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About the BMW 3.5 CSL E9 Gr.5 #5 K.W.M. Racing K. Miller / D. Cowart 6 Hours of Watkins Glen 1979 Minichamps 1:18

TL;DR: This Minichamps 1:18 diecast reproduces the KWM Racing BMW 3.5 CSL E9 Gr.5 of K. Miller and D. Cowart, entered at the 1979 6 Hours of Watkins Glen. It documents the CSL's IMSA-era North American racing presence in genuine widebody form.

By the late 1970s the CSL's Group 5 widebody kit had crossed the Atlantic into IMSA competition, and this Watkins Glen entry captures that transatlantic chapter of the car's story.

Widebody Diecast Detail Built for IMSA Livery

IMSA-era racing liveries often carried different sponsor treatments from their European Interseries counterparts, and this KWM Racing scheme reflects that with its own distinct number and colour placement, applied through tampo printing that keeps the graphics crisp against the CSL's flared bodywork. The extended arches and rear wing that define the Group 5 CSL translate cleanly at 1:18, holding tight, consistent panel gaps around the widened flanks. The model's stance, low and aggressively wide, reads as genuinely purposeful rather than decorative, exactly matching the demands of endurance competition rather than a road-legal trim package.

Watkins Glen and the CSL's IMSA Chapter

Watkins Glen hosted some of the era's most competitive North American endurance racing, and the CSL's presence there alongside American and other European entrants shows how far the car's silhouette-racing career extended beyond its home markets. Miller and Cowart's #5 entry gives this diecast a specific, documented result rather than a generic period livery. Paired with the Havirov-winning CSL elsewhere in this range, this piece lets a collector build a genuine cross-continental picture of the model's Group 5 racing life in the late 1970s.

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