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Ford Capri Mk3 3.0 #11 D. Gartmann / K. Ludwig Gilden Kölsch Racing Winners 24 Hours of Nürburgring 1982 Minichamps 1:18

Ford Capri Mk3 3.0 #11 D. Gartmann / K. Ludwig Gilden Kölsch Racing Winners 24 Hours of Nürburgring 1982 Minichamps 1:18
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Specifications
Brand
Ford
Manufacturer
Minichamps
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
155828611
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About the Ford Capri Mk3 3.0 #11 D. Gartmann / K. Ludwig Gilden Kölsch Racing Winners 24 Hours of Nürburgring 1982 Minichamps 1:18

TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:18 diecast Ford Capri Mk3 3.0 reproduces the winning #11 Gilden Kölsch Racing car driven by D. Gartmann and Klaus Ludwig at the 1982 24 Hours of Nürburgring. Klaus Ludwig, one of Germany's most successful touring car and endurance drivers, helped deliver outright victory in this grueling Nordschleife race.

A race winner always tells a cleaner story than its sister car, and this #11 Capri is the one that actually crossed the line first.

Klaus Ludwig and a Genuine Nürburgring Victory

Klaus Ludwig built one of German motorsport's most decorated careers across touring cars and endurance racing, and his outright win with D. Gartmann in this Gilden Kölsch Racing Capri at the 1982 24 Hours of Nürburgring sits comfortably within that record. The Nordschleife's demanding 24-hour format punished mechanical weakness ruthlessly, meaning a win there reflected genuine reliability as much as raw pace over the sister #1 car entered by the same team. The Capri Mk3 3.0, running Ford's V6 in largely production-based touring car trim, proved a durable platform across events like this throughout the early 1980s, and this particular result stands as one of its more significant outright wins during that period.

Minichamps' Diecast Detail for the Winning Livery

Minichamps renders this winning Capri with the same tampo-printed Gilden Kölsch sponsor graphics carried across the team's cars, keeping branding sharp and consistent between the two liveries for a collector who wants to display both side by side. The diecast body gives the Capri's fastback profile solid weight and presence at 1:18, and opening doors are typical at this construction tier. Displayed together, the winning #11 and the #1 sister car tell a fuller story of the team's effort that weekend than either car alone, and this particular livery, carrying the outright victory, makes the natural centerpiece of that pairing.

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