
BMW 2800 CS BMW Alpina #14 H. Kelleners / G. Huber Winners 24 Hours of Spa 1970 Minichamps 1:18

Specifications
- Brand
- BMW
- Manufacturer
- Minichamps
- Scale
- 1:18
- Material
- Diecast
- Model Condition
- Used Model
- SKU
- 155702714
- Year
- 1970
- Era
- 1970s
- Body Type
- GT Models
- Vehicle Class
- Group Racing Historic
- Openable Parts
- No
- Packaging Condition
- Traces of Storage
- Model Type
- Race Models
- EAN / GTIN
- 4012138154858
About the BMW 2800 CS BMW Alpina #14 H. Kelleners / G. Huber Winners 24 Hours of Spa 1970 Minichamps 1:18
TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:18 diecast BMW 2800 CS reproduces Alpina's #14 entry, overall winner of the 1970 24 Hours of Spa with drivers Kelleners and Huber. Zinc alloy construction and period-accurate livery detail capture BMW's early touring car racing era.
Alpina began its long partnership with BMW by transforming road-going E9 coupes into serious touring car racers, and this Spa-winning 2800 CS represents that partnership at its earliest and most successful.
Detail Work on a Historic Touring Car Livery
The 2800 CS's flowing, long-hooded coupe shape is a departure from the boxy sedans more commonly reproduced in 1970s touring car diecast, and Minichamps captures that elegant roofline cleanly at 1:18. The Alpina racing livery is applied with tampo printing, keeping number roundels and sponsor script crisp rather than softened by a decal edge. Doors open to reveal a stripped racing cabin appropriate to the period, with a roll cage suggestion and simplified bucket seating. The model's zinc alloy body gives it genuine heft, and panel gaps around the coupe's long doors sit within expected diecast tolerance. For a subject this specific, the accuracy of the livery matters more than opening-feature depth, and this replica gets the graphics placement right.
The Significance of a Long-Distance Touring Car Win
Alpina-run BMW E9 coupes were a fixture of European touring car racing in the early 1970s, and an outright win at the 24 Hours of Spa, one of the longest and most demanding touring car events of the era, stands as a genuine highlight of that early Alpina-BMW collaboration. This piece works particularly well in a collection built around BMW's motorsport heritage before the M division existed, showing how Alpina's tuning expertise laid groundwork for BMW's later factory racing programs. Displayed beside modern BMW GT cars, it demonstrates just how far the marque's endurance racing pedigree stretches.















