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BMW 635 CSi E24 #62 J. Richards JPS Team BMW ATCC Winner 1985 AUTOart 1:18

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BMW 635 CSi E24 #62 J. Richards JPS Team BMW ATCC Winner 1985 AUTOart 1:18 88548 Diecast
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AUTOart's 1:18 diecast reproduces Jim Richards' 1985 JPS Team BMW 635 CSi E24, ATCC-winning livery on the big coupe body. A sharp entry for anyone building an 1980s touring car shelf.
BMW 635 CSi E24 #62 J. Richards JPS Team BMW ATCC Winner 1985 AUTOart 1:18
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Specifications
Brand
BMW
Manufacturer
AUTOart
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
88548
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About the BMW 635 CSi E24 #62 J. Richards JPS Team BMW ATCC Winner 1985 AUTOart 1:18

TL;DR: AUTOart's 1:18 diecast BMW 635 CSi E24 wears Jim Richards' JPS Team BMW livery from the 1985 Australian Touring Car Championship. The big coupe silhouette, gold-on-black sponsor scheme, and period-correct number 62 make it a strong anchor for a touring car display.

Before turbocharged four-doors took over touring car grids, the BMW 635 CSi's long coupe body carried the fight, and Jim Richards' 1985 championship run in JPS colors remains one of the more visually striking seasons of that era.

AUTOart's Diecast Approach to the 635 CSi E24

AUTOart built its early reputation on exactly this kind of subject: long-nosed touring coupes carrying dense sponsor liveries, where crisp tampo printing matters as much as body accuracy. The zinc alloy casting gives the model real heft in the hand, a weight that plastic reproductions simply cannot match, and the panel gaps around the doors and hood stay tight enough that the JPS gold striping runs unbroken across the shut lines. Opening doors and hood are typical of this tier of AUTOart diecast, letting a collector inspect the cabin detail without disturbing the exterior finish. The gold-on-black JPS scheme is unforgiving of sloppy printing, and it is exactly the kind of livery that separates a mid-tier diecast from a genuinely collector-grade one.

The 1985 ATCC Season and This Livery

Jim Richards and the JPS Team BMW campaign gave the 635 CSi one of its defining seasons in the Australian Touring Car Championship, a series that ran the big BMW coupe against Ford, Holden, and Mazda rivals on a mix of street and permanent circuits. Car number 62 carrying that championship-winning result is the kind of subject that anchors an ATCC-themed shelf far more convincingly than a generic road-going 635. The model's value leans heavily on getting that period atmosphere right, and the livery detail is where AUTOart's early diecast work earned its following among touring car specialists.

Placing This Coupe in a Collection

At 1:18, the 635 CSi's long hood and low roofline give it real shelf presence next to smaller hatchback-based touring cars from the same period, and it reads well grouped with other 1980s international touring car liveries rather than isolated among modern GT3 machinery. Collectors building a themed ATCC or BMW motorsport run will find this a natural centerpiece, and the diecast weight holds up to years of handling far better than a resin equivalent would. Judged against its era and segment, it earns a place on the shelf rather than in a box.

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