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Auto Union Type C Streamliner #72 B. Rosemeyer World Record 1937 Revell 1:18

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Auto Union Type C Streamliner #72 B. Rosemeyer World Record 1937 Revell 1:18 08420 Diecast
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Revell's 1:18 diecast Auto Union Type C Streamliner #72 reproduces Bernd Rosemeyer's 1937 world speed record car, one of the defining machines of the pre-war Grand Prix and record-breaking era. A rare, historically grounded subject for a serious motorsport heritage shelf.
Auto Union Type C Streamliner #72 B. Rosemeyer World Record 1937 Revell 1:18
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Car Brand
Auto Union
Model Manufacturer
Revell
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
08420
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5-layer carton Foam-filled interior
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About the Auto Union Type C Streamliner #72 B. Rosemeyer World Record 1937 Revell 1:18

TL;DR: This Revell 1:18 diecast reproduces the Auto Union Type C Streamliner #72, driven by Bernd Rosemeyer to a world speed record on the closed Frankfurt-Darmstadt Autobahn in 1937. The rear-engined streamliner's body is one of the defining shapes of pre-war German motorsport engineering.

Rosemeyer died on that same stretch of Autobahn attempting another record only months later, which makes any model of this car a genuinely weighty piece of racing history rather than a decorative curiosity.

A Rear-Engined Record Breaker

Auto Union built the Type C around a rear-mounted V16, a radical layout for the 1930s that put the team in direct rivalry with Mercedes-Benz's front-engined Grand Prix cars throughout the decade. The Streamliner body seen here was purpose-built for high-speed record runs on closed public roads rather than circuit racing, its enclosed wheels and elongated tail shaped purely to cut through air at speed rather than to corner. Rosemeyer, one of the era's most celebrated German drivers, used this configuration to set a world speed record on the Autobahn in 1937, a genuine high point before his fatal crash on the same road the following January while attempting to better it. Revell's diecast captures the enclosed streamliner shape faithfully, with the long tapering tail and low cockpit that made the car look more like an aircraft fuselage than a conventional Grand Prix machine.

A Serious Subject for a Motorsport Heritage Shelf

This model belongs on a shelf built around genuine pre-war motorsport history, where its story carries real weight rather than manufactured significance. For collectors of German racing heritage or the Silver Arrows era more broadly, the Type C Streamliner is one of the more historically important subjects available in scale form.

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