LE MANS miniatures Porsche 911 Carrera RS 2.7 Lightweight 1973

Choose a version :

• Porsche 911 Carrera RS 2.7 Lightweight 1973 blue with black strips
• Porsche 911 Carrera RS 2.7 Lightweight 1973 yellow with red stripes

Specifications :

• Body : polyurethan resin
• ABS chassis plate
• Side wider motor mount
• Polyurethan painting
• Turned metal rims
• Pressure screw M2 system
• Engraved injected tires

The details that kill : The engraved injected tires and the license plate in relief.

Porsche 911 is The reference. And purists would say that the best 911 "roadversion” is the RS 2.7l 1973 (for RennSport). Officially named 911 SC, the RS is the most powerful version of the range 911, range thrown in 1964.

Launched to the Show of Paris in October, 1972, the Carrera 911 RS was created to improve the competitiveness of 911 in the Group 4 races. This purpose was easily affected since Porsche had no difficulty to win the European championship Grand Tourism 1973, in which the brand was nevertheless represented only by “private" teams.

Wings are inflated to allow wider Fuchs wheel rims (7 inches) behind than in front (6 inches). The psychedelic stickers with Carrera name on the bottoms of the body on all their length, the shrill colors added to the colour chart signal yellow or electric blue for examples, the sober and dark dashboard and interior but especially, its curious wing quickly nicknamed " tail of duck”, all of these leave a mark in the minds.

Only available as a Coupé it has been produced in 1590 models from october 1972 to July 1973.