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Porsche 956L #16 Skoal Bandit G. Edwards / D. Sears / M. Bleekemolen 24 Hours of Le Mans 1983 Minichamps 1:18

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Minichamps' 1:18 diecast Porsche 956L reproduces the #16 Skoal Bandit car driven by Guy Edwards, David Sears and Michael Bleekemolen at the 1983 Le Mans 24 Hours. The 'L' denotes the long-tail Langheck bodywork built for Le Mans top speed. A tobacco-sponsor livery piece for a Group C prototype display.
Porsche 956L #16 Skoal Bandit G. Edwards / D. Sears / M. Bleekemolen 24 Hours of Le Mans 1983 Minichamps 1:18
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Specifications
Car Brand
Porsche
Model Manufacturer
Minichamps
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
183836916
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About the Porsche 956L #16 Skoal Bandit G. Edwards / D. Sears / M. Bleekemolen 24 Hours of Le Mans 1983 Minichamps 1:18

TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:18 diecast Porsche 956L reproduces the #16 Skoal Bandit car driven by Edwards, Sears and Bleekemolen at the 1983 Le Mans 24 Hours. The Langheck long-tail bodywork and period tobacco livery make it a distinctive Group C shelf piece.

Porsche's 956 dominated Group C from the moment it appeared, and the 'L' Langheck bodywork stretched its tail for extra top speed down the Mulsanne straight. This 1:18 diecast wears the Skoal Bandit colours run by Guy Edwards' team in 1983.

The 956L's Long-Tail Le Mans Specification

Porsche offered the 956 in two distinct tail treatments, a shorter Kurzheck version for tighter circuits and the Langheck long-tail used specifically at Le Mans, where the extra bodywork trimmed drag for higher speed down the Mulsanne straight. That ground-effect chassis and flat-six turbo package made the 956 close to unbeatable through the early 1980s, and privateer teams like Guy Edwards' outfit kept the grid deep well behind the factory Rothmans cars. The Skoal Bandit tobacco livery on this #16 entry marks it clearly as an independent effort rather than a works car, part of what made Group C's grids so visually varied during this period.

Minichamps' Tobacco-Livery Diecast Detail

Sponsor-heavy 1980s liveries like Skoal Bandit's are genuinely demanding to reproduce accurately, and Minichamps' tampo printing captures the graphics cleanly across the 956's distinctive long-tail bodywork. The diecast build carries honest weight for the segment, priced at a mid-tier level that suits a Group C collection built around multiple privateer liveries rather than a single hero piece. Displayed alongside other 956 variants from the same era, it helps recreate the visual variety that made 1980s Le Mans grids so distinctive.

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