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Ford Escort Mk1 TC #36 F. Gardner / D. Glemser Grand Prix der Tourenwagen 1968 Minichamps 1:18

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Minichamps' 1:18 diecast Ford Escort Mk1 TC #36 reproduces the touring car Frank Gardner and Dieter Glemser shared at the 1968 Grand Prix der Tourenwagen. Doors and bonnet open over a stripped, race-prepared cabin, and the zinc alloy body carries the number 36 livery with sharp decal registration. The wheels and trim match the car's touring car-era specification. A period subject for collectors tracing the Escort's competition record before its rallying years.
Ford Escort Mk1 TC #36 F. Gardner / D. Glemser Grand Prix der Tourenwagen 1968 Minichamps 1:18
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Ford
Model Manufacturer
Minichamps
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
New Model
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100688136
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About the Ford Escort Mk1 TC #36 F. Gardner / D. Glemser Grand Prix der Tourenwagen 1968 Minichamps 1:18

TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:18 diecast Ford Escort Mk1 TC #36 reproduces the touring car Frank Gardner and Dieter Glemser shared at the 1968 Grand Prix der Tourenwagen. The zinc alloy body opens at the doors and bonnet, over a stripped race cabin, with the number 36 livery and period wheels held accurately across the casting.

Touring car racing in the late 1960s often meant two drivers sharing one works entry across a long race distance, and Gardner and Glemser's Escort was exactly that kind of car. Minichamps reproduces the number 36 entry with the stripped, purposeful look of a genuine period racer rather than a tidied-up showroom interpretation.

Gardner, Glemser and the 1968 Grand Prix der Tourenwagen

Two Touring Car Specialists Sharing a Works Escort

Frank Gardner, an Australian driver with a long record in touring cars and single-seaters, and Dieter Glemser, a German specialist who built his reputation in Ford's European touring car programme, shared this Escort for the 1968 Grand Prix der Tourenwagen. Sharing a car across a race distance was common practice in period touring car events, spreading the physical demands of a long race between two drivers rather than asking one to complete the whole distance alone. This early competition Escort shares its twin-cam engineering roots with the works rally cars that followed in the next decade, part of the same broader push to prove the model as a serious performance platform. The pairing reflects how Ford ran its programme at the time, drawing on specialists from different racing backgrounds.

Race Number 36 Livery

The number 36 livery is kept simple by modern standards, a white body with minimal sponsorship graphics and bold race numbers on the doors and roof, reflecting how understated period touring car liveries generally were before sponsorship money transformed the sport in the following decade. Minichamps reproduces the number plates and door graphics with clean edges and correct positioning rather than approximating their placement, and the subtle period decals around the lower body carry through at a scale where lesser models often simplify them away entirely. It is a livery that rewards close inspection rather than shouting from across the room.

Minichamps' Diecast Build of the Escort Mk1 TC

Doors and Bonnet Opening Over a Stripped Cabin

The doors and bonnet open on this model, revealing a cabin stripped of the trim a road car would carry, in keeping with the weight-saving approach touring car teams applied to their race entries. A representation of the roll cage and simplified race seating sits visible through the open doors, and lifting the bonnet shows the engine bay detail period touring cars actually exposed when entrants removed anything not essential to lap time. Zinc alloy construction gives the small model genuine weight, a density that suits a subject built around mechanical purpose rather than road-going comfort.

Decal Registration and Wheel Detail

Decal work on the number plates and door graphics holds sharp edges without the bleed or misregistration that lets down cheaper touring car reproductions, and the period wheel pattern the works Escorts actually wore is reproduced rather than substituted with a generic alloy design. Panel gaps around the opening doors and bonnet run slightly wider than a sealed casting allows, the expected trade for a body built to articulate. Paint on the white bodywork sits flat and even, without the gloss a road car's showroom finish would carry, correctly matching the matte, functional look of a genuine period racer.

Collection Role

A 1960s touring car like this suits collectors building a chronology of Escort competition history, sitting a generation before the works rally cars that made the model famous and offering a different kind of racing story altogether. At 1:18 the Mk1's compact dimensions mean it shares shelf space comfortably with other period saloons, and the restrained, largely white livery works well as a contrast against the bolder, more heavily sponsored liveries that followed in the 1970s.

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