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BMW 3.0 CSL E9 #4 Jolly Club Milano C. Finotto / C. Facetti Winners ETCC Zandvoort 1979 Minichamps 1:18

BMW 3.0 CSL E9 #4 Jolly Club Milano C. Finotto / C. Facetti Winners ETCC Zandvoort 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
155792504
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About the BMW 3.0 CSL E9 #4 Jolly Club Milano C. Finotto / C. Facetti Winners ETCC Zandvoort 1979 Minichamps 1:18

TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:18 diecast BMW 3.0 CSL E9 recreates Jolly Club Milano's #4 car, winner of the 1979 European Touring Car Championship round at Zandvoort with C. Finotto and C. Facetti. Zinc-alloy diecast carries the CSL's aerodynamic bodywork and Jolly Club livery.

Jolly Club was one of the Italian teams that kept the CSL competitive deep into the 1970s, and this Zandvoort victory represents the kind of privateer success that padded the model's extensive ETCC record beyond BMW's own factory efforts.

Livery Fidelity for a Race-Winning Entry

A winning car carries added weight for collectors, and Minichamps treats the detail accordingly. The Jolly Club sponsor graphics and number four roundel are tampo-printed onto the body, giving sharp registration to logos that would otherwise blur under a lower-quality print process. The CSL's roof spoiler and front air dam, essential to its aerodynamic homologation, are moulded into the main body tooling, avoiding the alignment drift that separately fitted parts risk over years of handling. Panel work around the long doors stays consistent with the standard Minichamps applies across its CSL range, and the wide period wheels are finished to match the fitment these cars ran through their ETCC seasons. Because this is a specific race-winning livery rather than a generic entry, the accuracy of the sponsor placement and number styling matters more than usual, and this model's printing holds up well under close comparison with period photography.

Positioning a Winning Livery in a Touring Car Display

A race winner earns a more prominent spot in a themed display than an entrant with no result attached, and this Zandvoort-winning CSL gives a BMW touring car collection a genuine highlight rather than just another number variant. Alongside factory BMW Motorsport liveries and rival privateer entries from the same 1970s ETCC seasons, it demonstrates how competitive the CSL remained deep into its production life. At 1:18 the CSL's long coupe profile and visible aero addenda give it real shelf presence, making a winning livery like this one a natural focal point for a European touring car shelf.

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