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Ford Capri Group 5 #3 Mampe H. Heyer DRM Norisring 1979 MCG 1:18

Ford Capri Group 5 #3 Mampe H. Heyer DRM Norisring 1979 MCG 1:18 MCG18800R Diecast
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MCG's 1:18 diecast Ford Capri Group 5 carries Hans Heyer's #3 Mampe DRM livery from the 1979 Norisring round. A wide-bodied silhouette racer from the DRM's most flamboyant era, cast in full detail.
Ford Capri Group 5 #3 Mampe H. Heyer DRM Norisring 1979 MCG 1:18
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Specifications
Brand
Ford
Manufacturer
MCG
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
New Model
SKU
MCG18800R
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About the Ford Capri Group 5 #3 Mampe H. Heyer DRM Norisring 1979 MCG 1:18

TL;DR: MCG's 1:18 diecast Ford Capri Group 5 reproduces Hans Heyer's #3 Mampe entry from the 1979 DRM race at Norisring. The Capri's flared, box-arched Group 5 silhouette body is a striking subject for a diecast, and this piece captures the era's oversized wheel arches and dense sponsor livery.

Group 5 silhouette racing pushed production shapes to extremes, and few cars wore those extremes more dramatically than the Zakspeed-era Capri, a road car's roofline stretched over a body wide enough for full-slick racing tires.

Capturing Group 5's Exaggerated Proportions

The Capri's Group 5 body kit adds arch flares wide enough to look almost cartoonish next to the standard road car, and getting that scale of exaggeration right without it reading as a toy is the real test for a diecast sculptor. MCG holds the flared arches tight against the roofline and keeps the Capri's basic silhouette recognizable underneath all the added bodywork, a balance that's easy to get wrong. The Mampe livery's graphics are dense with period sponsor branding, and clean registration across the arches, doors, and rear wing is where this casting proves itself. The wide racing wheels and low ride height correctly convey a car built purely for the demands of Group 5 competition rather than road use, and the diecast body carries real weight appropriate to its size.

The DRM's Silhouette Era on a Collector's Shelf

Hans Heyer was a fixture of German touring car racing through this period, and the DRM's late-1970s Group 5 regulations produced some of the most visually extreme production-based race cars ever to compete, cars that bore only a passing resemblance to the road models they were nominally based on. For a collector, the Capri sits at the wilder end of a touring car spectrum that later narrowed considerably under DTM's more conservative regulations. Displayed beside a 190E EVO II or a C-Class DTM car, the contrast in bodywork philosophy tells its own story about how German touring car racing evolved across two decades, from Group 5's flamboyant excess to the DTM's tighter aerodynamic formulas.

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