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Mercedes 450 SLC 5.0 C107 Hertz #6 H. Mikkola Rally Bandama 1979 Winner Minichamps 1:18

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Mercedes 450 SLC 5.0 C107 Hertz #6 H. Mikkola Rally Bandama 1979 Winner Minichamps 1:18 107793206 Resin
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Minichamps' 1:18 resin reproduces the Mercedes 450 SLC 5.0 in Hertz livery, driven to victory by Hannu Mikkola at the 1979 Rally Bandama. Sealed resin construction captures the coupe's rally lighting, decals and wide arches from Mercedes' works rally era.
Mercedes 450 SLC 5.0 C107 Hertz #6 H. Mikkola Rally Bandama 1979 Winner Minichamps 1:18
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Specifications
Car Brand
Mercedes
Model Manufacturer
Minichamps
Scale
1:18
Material
Resin
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
107793206
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About the Mercedes 450 SLC 5.0 C107 Hertz #6 H. Mikkola Rally Bandama 1979 Winner Minichamps 1:18

TL;DR: This Minichamps 1:18 resin model reproduces the Mercedes 450 SLC 5.0 driven by Hannu Mikkola to victory at the 1979 Rally Bandama, finished in Hertz-sponsored livery. Sealed resin construction favours the rally coupe's auxiliary lighting and decal work over opening features.

A works Mercedes rally winner is a rarer subject than most collectors expect from the marque, and this SLC 5.0 replica documents a genuine chapter of that history.

Sealed Resin Capturing Works Rally Detail

Rally cars of this era carried auxiliary spotlamps, sponsor decals, and reinforced arches that a road-going 450 SLC never wore, and reproducing those additions cleanly depends on a body free of hinge lines to interrupt the surfacing. Sealed resin construction lets Minichamps hold the SLC's long coupe roofline and wide C-pillar alongside the added rally hardware without a diecast door gap breaking the composition. The Hertz sponsor livery, applied with the tampo precision these decal-heavy subjects demand, needs to sit crisply against the body colour to read correctly at 1:18, and that precision is exactly where resin's advantage over a moving-parts diecast body shows most clearly on a subject this graphically busy.

A Genuine Works Rally Victory

Mercedes-Benz ran a factory rally programme in the late 1970s using the big, six-cylinder 450 SLC coupe, an unusual choice of car for the discipline given its size and road-going grand tourer origins, and that programme scored real results, including Hannu Mikkola's win at the 1979 Rally Bandama in Ivory Coast. That victory stands out precisely because the SLC was never built as a rally car, and Mercedes' willingness to campaign a road coupe successfully against smaller, purpose-built rivals says something genuine about the era's engineering confidence. On a WRC-era shelf, this piece brings a distinctly different kind of rally subject: a full-size luxury coupe that proved itself where lighter cars were expected to dominate.

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