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Porsche 917/10 #2 W. Kauhsen Interserie 1973 Minichamps 1:43

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Porsche 917/10 #2 W. Kauhsen Interserie 1973 Minichamps 1:43 437736502 Diecast
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Minichamps' 1:43 diecast Porsche 917/10 reproduces car #2 as raced by Willi Kauhsen's team in the 1973 Interserie championship, Europe's answer to Can-Am. The sealed one-piece body carries the turbo-era bodywork and printed race livery across a continuous shell without opening panels. A specific, well-researched entry for a Porsche prototype or 1970s turbo racing shelf.
Porsche 917/10 #2 W. Kauhsen Interserie 1973 Minichamps 1:43
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Car Brand
Porsche
Model Manufacturer
Minichamps
Scale
1:43
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
New Model
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437736502
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About the Porsche 917/10 #2 W. Kauhsen Interserie 1973 Minichamps 1:43

TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:43 diecast Porsche 917/10 reproduces car #2 as raced by Willi Kauhsen's team in the 1973 Interserie championship, Europe's turbocharged answer to Can-Am. The sealed body carries the race livery across a continuous shell, with no opening panels on this casting.

Turbocharging changed sports car racing faster than almost any single development of the 1970s, and the 917/10 sat right at that turning point. Porsche built it to fight Can-Am's big-engine dominance, and by 1973 the car had found its way into European Interserie racing too, where Willi Kauhsen ran this specific example.

Minichamps' 1:43 917/10 in Kauhsen Racing Colours

Turbocharged Can-Am-Bred Silhouette

The 917/10's flared wheel arches, low nose and enormous rear wing all trace back to its Can-Am origins, and Minichamps holds those proportions faithfully at 1:43 rather than smoothing them into something more generic. The turbocharged flat-12 sat behind the cockpit under bodywork built for straight-line speed above almost everything else, and the model's stance reflects that: wide rear track, minimal front overhang, a shape built around one job.

Sealed Diecast Body and Livery Print

This casting is a sealed, one-piece diecast shell with no opening doors or engine cover, keeping the printed number 2 and sponsor graphics continuous across the bodywork rather than interrupted by a panel seam. For a livery from an era when sponsor decals often ran the full length of the sills, that continuity is worth having. The wheels carry period-correct centre-lock detail, and the rear wing mounting follows the car's actual, oversized proportions rather than a scaled-down compromise.

The 917/10 and Interserie Racing in 1973

Willi Kauhsen's Privateer Effort

Willi Kauhsen, a German driver and later team principal, ran this 917/10 through the 1973 Interserie season, one of several European teams that picked up 917-based machinery once Porsche's own Can-Am effort wound down. Interserie gave the car a second competitive life on this side of the Atlantic, racing at European circuits under broadly similar big-banger rules to Can-Am itself. Kauhsen later ran his own constructor team in sports car racing, making this early campaign a useful footnote in his career.

From Can-Am to European Interserie

The 917/10 was built primarily to fight Can-Am's dominant McLarens in North America, but once that programme concluded, several examples found their way into Interserie, where the turbocharged flat-12 remained formidable against smaller-engined European opposition. That migration from one series to another is part of why 917/10 liveries vary so widely: cars that started in factory or works-backed American colours often reappeared in private European liveries like Kauhsen's within a season or two.

A Turbo-Era 917 for a Prototype Collection

This 917/10 suits a shelf built around Porsche's turbo development story rather than one focused purely on Le Mans results, since the car never ran at La Sarthe in this specification. Displayed alongside 917 Kurzheck or Langheck endurance racers, it shows the other side of the 917 programme, the big-banger sprint machinery built for Can-Am and Interserie rather than 24-hour reliability. At 1:43, several 917 variants fit comfortably on one shelf, making a focused turbo-era grouping a realistic project.

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