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Lancia Beta Montecarlo Gr.5 #65 24 Hours of Le Mans 1981 MCG 1:18

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Lancia Beta Montecarlo Gr.5 #65 24 Hours of Le Mans 1981 MCG 1:18 MCG18812R Diecast
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MCG's 1:18 diecast Lancia Beta Montecarlo Gr.5 #65 reproduces the factory Group 5 entry from the 1981 24 Hours of Le Mans. This is a new model in new packaging, cast as a sealed one-piece body with the wedge-shaped Group 5 silhouette and period livery reproduced across the shell. A solid anchor for a Group C-era or Lancia-focused endurance display.
Lancia Beta Montecarlo Gr.5 #65 24 Hours of Le Mans 1981 MCG 1:18
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Specifications
Brand
Lancia
Manufacturer
MCG
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
New Model
SKU
MCG18812R
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About the Lancia Beta Montecarlo Gr.5 #65 24 Hours of Le Mans 1981 MCG 1:18

TL;DR: MCG's 1:18 diecast Lancia Beta Montecarlo Gr.5 #65 reproduces the factory entry from the 1981 24 Hours of Le Mans. The body is a sealed one-piece casting, new and boxed, with the car's wedge silhouette and livery captured across the shell rather than through opening panels.

The Beta Montecarlo Gr.5 was Lancia's silhouette-racing weapon of the early 1980s, built around a turbocharged four-cylinder and clothed in a wide, low body that barely resembled the road car it borrowed its name from.

Diecast Construction of the MCG Lancia Beta Montecarlo Gr.5 1:18

MCG casts this car as a zinc-alloy body with no opening panels, so the whole reproduction rides on the exterior: the wheel arches flare outward in the exaggerated Group 5 style, the rear wing sits high above the deck, and the door and hood lines are scribed into the shell as continuous, even grooves rather than working seams. A sealed body is standard practice at this tier and this era of racing subject, and it lets the casting hold the wedge profile without the tolerance gaps an articulated shell would need. Lifted from the box, the model carries real heft, the kind that signals a metal casting rather than a lighter composite piece, and that weight helps the model sit convincingly on a shelf rather than feeling like a toy. The livery is applied directly to the body rather than through decals that could lift at the edges, and the car arrives new, in new packaging, with no handling history to disclose.

Group 5 Silhouette Racing and the 1981 Le Mans Field

Group 5 rules of the period allowed radical bodywork over largely production-based mechanicals, and Lancia's factory Martini-backed program used that freedom to build a car that looked closer to a prototype than a coupe. The Beta Montecarlo Gr.5 was part of that Le Mans-era factory effort, entered under car number 65 in the 1981 24 Hours, one of several works cars fielded that year in the class. For collectors building an endurance-racing shelf, the appeal of this subject sits less in outright results and more in the silhouette itself, a snapshot of a period when manufacturers stretched the rulebook to its limit.

Placing This Lancia in a Racing Collection

At 1:18, the model runs roughly 20cm in length, a manageable footprint for a themed row alongside other early-1980s prototypes and silhouette racers. It pairs naturally with sister car #66 from the same event for a matched pair, or with contemporary Porsche 935s and Group C prototypes for a broader endurance-era shelf. Because the body is sealed, care is straightforward: keep it out of direct sunlight to protect the livery, dust it with a soft brush, and judge the casting on stance, panel-line consistency, and paint depth rather than interior detail.

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