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Mercedes SSKL #87 R. Caracciola White 1931 Bburago 1:18

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Mercedes SSKL #87 R. Caracciola White 1931 Bburago 1:18 3002-P1 Diecast
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Bburago's 1:18 diecast Mercedes SSKL #87 in white honours Rudolf Caracciola's 1931 season, when the SSKL made history as the first foreign car to win the Mille Miglia. An accessible pre-war racing piece.
Mercedes SSKL #87 R. Caracciola White 1931 Bburago 1:18
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Specifications
Car Brand
Mercedes
Model Manufacturer
Bburago
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
3002-P1
Genuine articles
5-layer carton Foam-filled interior
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About the Mercedes SSKL #87 R. Caracciola White 1931 Bburago 1:18

TL;DR: Bburago's 1:18 diecast Mercedes SSKL #87 in white recreates Rudolf Caracciola's 1931 racer, the car that made him the first non-Italian to win the Mille Miglia. Entry-tier zinc alloy construction brings this landmark pre-war Mercedes within reach of collectors building an early motorsport shelf.

Few pre-war racing cars carry a story as clean as this one: a German driver, an Italian road race, and a result nobody in Italy expected.

Bburago's Diecast Treatment of the Mercedes SSKL 1:18

The SSKL's long, exposed chassis and cycle-wing fenders give this casting a very different silhouette from anything else Bburago builds in 1:18, and the zinc alloy body carries real heft for a car this narrow. Doors, where the open cockpit design allows them, and the bonnet louvres are rendered with the tooling limits of an entry-tier price in mind, so fine rivet and louvre detail reads as suggestion rather than sharp relief. The white paint with racing number 87 keeps things simple, which suits a car whose drama came from the road, not the paint shop. For the price, it's an honest way to own a genuinely significant pre-war shape.

Caracciola, the SSKL, and the 1931 Mille Miglia

Rudolf Caracciola drove the SSKL, a shortened and lightened evolution of Mercedes' SSK sports car, to victory in the 1931 Mille Miglia, becoming the first non-Italian driver to win Italy's great open-road race and doing it on a car built for endurance rather than sprint speed. That win remains one of the defining early results in Mercedes-Benz's competition history, decades before the Silver Arrows era that followed. A diecast carrying his number, however modestly built, connects a collector directly to that result.

A Foundation Piece for Pre-War Racing Collections

For anyone assembling a pre-war motorsport display, the SSKL sits near the start of the timeline, before the Auto Union and Mercedes Silver Arrows that dominated the mid-1930s. At entry-tier pricing, it's a practical way to secure that early chapter without competing for the resin-grade pieces that later grand prix subjects usually command.

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