
Porsche 356 Pre-A #200 J. Evans Solido 1:18

Specifications
- Brand
- Porsche
- Manufacturer
- Solido
- Scale
- 1:18
- Material
- Diecast
- Model Condition
- Used Model
- SKU
- S1802801
- Year
- 1953
- Era
- 1950s
- Body Type
- GT Models
- Vehicle Class
- Historic GT & GTE
- Openable Parts
- Yes
- Packaging Condition
- Traces of Storage
- Model Type
- Race Models
- EAN / GTIN
- 3663506004865
About the Porsche 356 Pre-A #200 J. Evans Solido 1:18
TL;DR: Solido's 1:18 diecast Porsche 356 Pre-A carries the #200 racing livery associated with driver J. Evans, reproducing Porsche's rounded early competition shape from the 1950s. At around 20cm, it suits a vintage motorsport display built around Porsche's formative decade.
The Pre-A 356, built before Porsche standardized its naming in 1955, has a softer, more rounded body than later 356 variants, and that shape is part of what makes early race liveries on it look distinctive today.
Solido's Approach to an Early Porsche Shape
The Pre-A's curved nose and split or bent windshield set it apart from the later, sharper 356 A and B cars, and Solido's 1:18 diecast tooling captures that rounder profile rather than retrofitting later styling cues. The #200 number board and period livery are applied with the kind of tampo printing that keeps edges sharp at this scale, important on a subject where the graphics, not the paint color, carry most of the visual identity. Zinc alloy construction gives the model believable weight, and the compact GT proportions of the 356 make it a denser, more substantial piece in hand than its modest footprint suggests. This is a diecast built for a specific historical livery rather than a generic "vintage Porsche" stand-in.
An Early Chapter in Porsche's Competition Story
Porsche built its early motorsport reputation on cars like this, lightweight and underpowered by modern standards but competitive against similarly modest rivals in club and endurance racing through the early 1950s. A numbered, liveried Pre-A like this one represents that grassroots-to-factory period before Porsche's racing program became the institution it is today. Displayed alongside later 356s or early 911s, it shows how directly Porsche's competition identity grew out of cars that looked almost ordinary. For a collector tracing Porsche's motorsport lineage from the very beginning, this is a reasonable, honest starting point rather than a headline piece.















