
Porsche 906 LE #30 J. Siffert / C. Davis GT Class Winner Le Mans 1966 Minichamps 1:18

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Specifications
- Brand
- Porsche
- Manufacturer
- Minichamps
- Scale
- 1:18
- Material
- Diecast
- Model Condition
- Used Model
- SKU
- 100666130
- Year
- 1966
- Era
- 1960s
- Body Type
- GT Models
- Vehicle Class
- Historic GT & GTE
- Openable Parts
- Yes
- Packaging Condition
- Traces of Storage
- Model Type
- Race Models
- EAN / GTIN
- 4012138046726
About the Porsche 906 LE #30 J. Siffert / C. Davis GT Class Winner Le Mans 1966 Minichamps 1:18
TL;DR: This Minichamps 1:18 diecast reproduces the #30 Porsche 906 that Jo Siffert and Colin Davis drove to a GT class win at Le Mans in 1966. The low fiberglass-look coachwork, period livery, and Le Mans race number are captured in diecast detail for an endurance racing shelf.
The 906, also known as the Carrera 6, was Porsche's first purpose-built racer to blend a mid-engine chassis with genuinely low, wind-tunnel-shaped bodywork, and its class win at Le Mans in 1966 announced the marque's arrival as a serious endurance contender.
The Porsche 906 and Its Le Mans GT Class Win
The 906 arrived in 1966 as a genuine departure from Porsche's earlier 904, with a tubular space frame, gullwing doors, and a shape so low that period photographs make the driver's helmet look nearly level with the roofline. Siffert and Davis piloted the #30 car to a GT class victory that year at Le Mans, a result that mattered beyond the trophy: it validated the 906 as a platform Porsche would keep developing into the 910, 907, and eventually the 917 that dominated the following decade. For collectors of 1960s endurance racing, a 906 sits at the root of that Porsche lineage, the point where the marque's GT ambitions became genuinely competitive rather than promising.
Minichamps' Diecast Reproduction of a Low, Curved Racer
The 906's shape is the hardest part of this subject to get right in diecast, since its low, curved surfaces and gullwing doors leave little room for tooling error. Minichamps' 1:18 build reproduces the coachwork with tight, even shut lines around the door openings and a factory-accurate livery rather than an approximated color scheme, with the race number and sponsor markings printed rather than decaled. At roughly 22cm given the car's compact endurance-racer proportions, it sits smaller on a shelf than a modern GT car but no less commanding, and it pairs naturally with later Porsche endurance subjects from the same manufacturer for anyone tracing the marque's racing chronology from the 1960s forward.














