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Mercedes CLK GTR #12 Original Teile FIA GT 1999 Maisto 1:18

Mercedes CLK GTR #12 Original Teile FIA GT 1999 Maisto 1:18
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Specifications
Car Brand
Mercedes
Model Manufacturer
Maisto
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
56036
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About the Mercedes CLK GTR #12 Original Teile FIA GT 1999 Maisto 1:18

TL;DR: Maisto's 1:18 diecast Mercedes CLK GTR wears the #12 Original Teile FIA GT livery from 1999, with opening doors and bonnet over the mid-mounted V12. It is a used model, and the box shows traces of storage. A genuine anchor piece for a late-1990s GT1 display.

The CLK GTR was AMG's answer to the GT1 era's homologation rules, a road-legal supercar built purely to legalise a racing programme, and this Maisto diecast captures its factory-backed 1999 campaign.

Maisto's Diecast Build for a GT1 Subject

The body is zinc alloy, giving the long, low CLK GTR shape real presence in the hand, and the doors and bonnet open to show the mid-mounted V12, a genuine point of interest given how unusual that layout was for a road-derived car. Panel gaps sit wider than premium resin work, and the livery graphics, while legible, lack the sharpest tampo registration of higher-tier makers, an honest limitation at this price. This example is a used model, and its box shows traces of storage; the casting is unaffected. That should inform how a buyer values it against a fresh factory piece.

The CLK GTR's Racing Story

Mercedes built the CLK GTR to dominate the FIA GT Championship, and it did so decisively through 1997 and 1998 before regulation changes and the arrival of newer machinery reshaped the field into 1999, the season this livery represents. That homologation-special story, a road car built solely to unlock a racing programme, gives the model real substance beyond its shape. Displayed alongside other GT1-era cars from Porsche, McLaren or Panoz, it tells a coherent story of one of sports car racing's most extreme rules periods.

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