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Toyota Celica 2000 GT RA21 #8 H. Mikkola / A. Hertz Lombard RAC Rally 1977 Otto 1:18

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Toyota Celica 2000 GT RA21 #8 H. Mikkola / A. Hertz Lombard RAC Rally 1977 Otto 1:18 OT1044 Resin
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Otto's 1:18 resin Toyota Celica 2000 GT RA21 recreates Hannu Mikkola and Arne Hertz's #8 car from the 1977 Lombard RAC Rally. Cast as a fixed one-piece body, its sharp shut lines and hand-finished paint present a 1970s Japanese rally entry rarely seen on a Western WRC classics shelf.
Toyota Celica 2000 GT RA21 #8 H. Mikkola / A. Hertz Lombard RAC Rally 1977 Otto 1:18
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Specifications
Car Brand
Toyota
Model Manufacturer
Otto
Scale
1:18
Material
Resin
Model Condition
New Model
SKU
OT1044
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About the Toyota Celica 2000 GT RA21 #8 H. Mikkola / A. Hertz Lombard RAC Rally 1977 Otto 1:18

TL;DR: This Otto 1:18 resin Toyota Celica 2000 GT RA21 wears H. Mikkola and A. Hertz's #8 livery from the 1977 Lombard RAC Rally. Cast as a fixed one-piece resin body with crisp shut lines. A rare Japanese entry for a 1970s WRC classic shelf.

Japanese manufacturers rarely feature on a Western-dominated 1970s rally shelf, which makes this Celica's presence genuinely notable beyond its livery alone.

Resin Casting Quality on the Otto Celica RA21

This model's body is sealed as a fixed one-piece resin casting, and that construction lets Otto hold razor-sharp shut lines around the Celica's boxy, upright proportions, tighter and more consistent than a diecast equivalent could manage at the same tooling cost. The RAC Rally's mud-caked lower panels and period rally lighting pods, mounted ahead of the grille, are cast with crisp definition rather than smoothed away, and the paint is factory-finished in the Celica's period livery with an even, hand-applied depth typical of small-batch resin production. Being a lighter material than diecast, the piece feels noticeably less dense in the hand, a trade resin makes in exchange for the finer surface detail it can hold.

Hannu Mikkola and the Celica at the 1977 RAC Rally

The Lombard RAC Rally was among the toughest events on the world rally calendar through the 1970s, run over demanding British forest stages in often brutal weather, and Hannu Mikkola's participation with co-driver Arne Hertz sits within his broader career competing across multiple manufacturers before his later Audi success. Toyota's rally programme in this period ran a smaller international profile than the dominant European manufacturers, making this Celica a genuinely distinctive addition to a WRC classics shelf. For a collector who wants variety beyond the usual Lancia and Ford entries of the decade, this resin piece fills that gap with a driver whose later career gives it added historical weight.

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