Porsche 356 A Carrera Coupé, #27

Porsche 356 A Carrera Coupé, #27 Winner "Liege-Rome-Liege 1960"

Schuco Edition 1:18 > scheduled ship date: July 2022

230 mm 450 g

SCHUCO offers a wide range of high-quality and highly detailed zinc die-cast models in the popular 1:18 scale. EDITION 1:18 presents historic production vehicles and racing cars, as well as tractors and utility vehicles with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail. Based on original vehicles from leading manufacturers, such as Porsche and Volkswagen, to name just two examples, SCHUCO is able to produce exceptional and very interesting new models time and time again.

The Porsche 356 was not only the first series-produced sports car and thus the foundation stone for the success the Zuffenhausen sports car manufacturer, in the hands of many experienced private drivers, it was also an absolutely and extremely successful participant in numerous circuit and endurance races around the globe. Probably the most successful racing 356 is Paul Ernst Strähle's famous Porsche 356 Carrera GT with the legendary license plate "WN-V 2". With this car, Strähle and his co-driver and Porsche works driver co-driver and Porsche works driver Herbert Linge, Strähle won his class at the last classic Mille-Miglia in Italy. Probably the greatest success for Paul-Ernst Strähle
and his co-driver Robert Buchet on the 356 Carrera GT with the starting number "27" was the overall victory in what was at the time the most difficult rally in the world, the the most difficult rally in the world at the time, the "Liège - Rome - Liège" race, known as the Marathon de la Route, in 1959. Schuco is dedicating a finely detailed metal miniature on a scale of 1:18, limited to 1000 pieces.