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BMW 507 Touring Sport Feather White Revell 1:18

BMW 507 Touring Sport Feather White Revell 1:18
Current price: £38.00
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Specifications
Car Brand
BMW
Model Manufacturer
Revell
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
8810
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About the BMW 507 Touring Sport Feather White Revell 1:18

TL;DR: Revell's 1:18 diecast BMW 507 in Feather White reproduces Albrecht Goertz's 1956 roadster, a design still widely praised despite the car's commercially unsuccessful production run. Diecast construction captures long, flowing proportions that made the 507 admired well beyond its sales figures.

The 507 proved that a car could be a design triumph and a commercial failure at the same time, and Feather White paint shows off exactly why the design side of that equation still matters.

Goertz's Proportions, Rendered Faithfully

The 507's long bonnet and short rear deck create proportions that were unusual for a 1950s BMW, and Revell's tooling keeps that stretched, elegant silhouette intact rather than compressing it for easier manufacture. Feather White paint suits the car's smooth, uncluttered flanks, showing genuine consistency across the long panels without the flake or metallic distraction a bolder colour might introduce. Chrome trim around the kidney grilles and bumpers stays crisp, a detail that matters enormously on a design whose whole appeal rests on restraint rather than aggression.

A Beautiful Car That Nearly Bankrupted BMW

BMW built the 507 at a price that could never recoup its costs, and the resulting financial strain contributed to real difficulty for the company in the years that followed, a genuinely dramatic backstory for a car remembered mostly for its looks. That combination of design triumph and commercial disaster makes the 507 a fascinating subject for any 1950s European roadster shelf, distinct from the more commercially sensible cars that surrounded it. Revell's diecast lets that beautiful, difficult story sit on a shelf rather than staying a footnote in BMW's history.

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