10% off your first order — create a free account

Create free account
✓ 14-day returns ✓ Hand-checked before dispatch ✓ Secure checkout
My account

Mercedes 450 SLC #35 H. Heyer / C. Schickentanz Monza 1978 Minichamps 1:18

Sold out
Mercedes 450 SLC #35 H. Heyer / C. Schickentanz Monza 1978 Minichamps 1:18 107783278 Diecast
1 / 6
Minichamps' 1:18 diecast Mercedes 450 SLC reproduces car #35 as driven by Hans Heyer and Clemens Schickentanz at Monza in 1978, part of Mercedes' factory-backed touring car programme for the boxy C107 coupe. Race livery, sponsor decals and period wheel design carry through in zinc alloy with crisp print registration. A historic GT piece for a 1970s Mercedes motorsport shelf.
Mercedes 450 SLC #35 H. Heyer / C. Schickentanz Monza 1978 Minichamps 1:18
Current price: £203.33

Price shown excluding UK VAT. Import VAT and the courier's customs clearance fee are collected on delivery.

Out of production

This model is currently sold out. Enter your email and we'll let you know when it's back in stock.

Browse Mercedes models
Pay securely with
Specifications
Car Brand
Mercedes
Model Manufacturer
Minichamps
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
107783278
Genuine articles Sourced from manufacturers
5-layer carton Foam-filled interior
Hassle-free returns 14-day no-quibble returns
Secure payment Bank-level encryption

About the Mercedes 450 SLC #35 H. Heyer / C. Schickentanz Monza 1978 Minichamps 1:18

TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:18 diecast Mercedes 450 SLC reproduces car #35 from the 1978 Monza entry driven by Hans Heyer and Clemens Schickentanz, part of Mercedes' factory-backed touring car campaign for the C107 coupe. Race livery and period wheels carry through faithfully, anchoring a 1970s Mercedes motorsport display.

The 450 SLC looks like an unlikely racer, a long, comfortable coupe built for grand touring rather than circuit combat. Mercedes ran it anyway through the late 1970s, and this Minichamps casting captures car #35 exactly as Heyer and Schickentanz campaigned it at Monza in 1978.

Car #35 and the 1978 Monza Livery

Minichamps builds this SLC around the specific livery car #35 wore at Monza in 1978, rather than a generic touring car scheme applied to the C107 shape. The number panels, sponsor decals and period-correct stripe work all sit in the positions the real car carried that season, and the printing stays sharp at the door shut lines where a lesser casting would let the graphics blur or misalign.

Sponsor Graphics and Number Panel Detail

The number 35 roundels are crisp enough to read clearly at a glance, and the surrounding sponsor decals hold their edges without the slight fuzziness that cheaper tampo printing sometimes shows on curved bodywork.

Print Registration Across the SLC's Long Panels

The SLC's long doors and low waistline give the livery a lot of unbroken surface to run across, and Minichamps keeps the graphics continuous rather than letting them shift where one panel meets the next, the detail that makes a race livery casting convincing rather than approximate.

Mercedes' Factory-Backed C107 Racing Programme

Mercedes campaigned the 450 SLC through the late 1970s in touring car and long-distance rally events, running the big coupe against smaller, nimbler rivals on the strength of its straight-line pace and durability rather than outright agility. It was a factory-backed effort rather than a privateer entry, which shows in how thoroughly Mercedes prepared cars like this #35 example for the Monza weekend.

Heyer and Schickentanz Behind the Wheel

Hans Heyer and Clemens Schickentanz were both established German touring car drivers through this period, and their pairing on car #35 reflects the kind of experienced driver line-up Mercedes trusted with its factory machinery rather than handing the programme to newcomers.

A 1970s Historic GT Piece on the Shelf

This SLC sits in Minichamps' race model range rather than its road-car catalogue, built specifically around the livery and race context rather than as a generic period Mercedes coupe. That focus is exactly what a collector building a 1970s touring car theme wants: a specific car, a specific event, not an approximation.

Positioning Against Road-Going SLC Models

Paired with a standard road-going 450 SLC in the same collection, this racing example shows how far Mercedes pushed a comfortable grand tourer into genuine competition trim, the sponsor livery and number panels the clearest visual signal of that transformation.

Same marque, same scale

Collectors also bought

Browse all 1:18

10% off your first order

Create a free account and claim 10% off your first order — from hundreds of collectible 1:18, 1:43 and 1:12 models by Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, BMW and more.

Create free account Browse the collection
Collectible 1:18 scale Porsche model on a clean studio backdrop — Models118 first-order offer
0