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Porsche 935/78 Moby Dick #43 R. Stommelen / M. Schurti 24 Hours of Le Mans 1978 Minichamps 1:43

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Porsche 935/78 Moby Dick #43 R. Stommelen / M. Schurti 24 Hours of Le Mans 1978 Minichamps 1:43 430786743 Diecast
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Minichamps' 1:43 diecast reproduces the Porsche 935/78 Moby Dick, chassis #43 driven by Stommelen and Schurti at the 1978 24 Hours of Le Mans. The elongated tail and low nose that earned the car its nickname translate clearly even at small scale.
Porsche 935/78 Moby Dick #43 R. Stommelen / M. Schurti 24 Hours of Le Mans 1978 Minichamps 1:43
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Specifications
Brand
Porsche
Manufacturer
Minichamps
Scale
1:43
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
430786743
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About the Porsche 935/78 Moby Dick #43 R. Stommelen / M. Schurti 24 Hours of Le Mans 1978 Minichamps 1:43

TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:43 diecast recreates the Porsche 935/78 Moby Dick in its #43 Le Mans 1978 livery, driven by Rolf Stommelen and Manfred Schurti. It is one of the most distinctive Group 5 silhouette racers ever built, and the elongated tail is unmistakable even at reduced scale.

Few Group 5 cars are as visually extreme as the 935/78, and its nickname alone tells a collector what they are getting before the box is even open.

Capturing an Extreme Silhouette at 1:43

Moby Dick earned its name from that dramatically stretched tail section, engineered for top-speed stability down the Mulsanne Straight, and Minichamps' tooling holds that long, low profile without letting it look exaggerated or cartoonish. The white body with blue and green Porsche script is period-correct to the 1978 Le Mans entry, and at 1:43 the car's low nose and flat rear deck read as a genuinely different shape from a standard 911-based racer, not a minor variant. Interior and engine detail are simplified at this scale, as expected, but the exterior silhouette is the entire point of a Moby Dick model, and that is where Minichamps puts its effort.

Moby Dick's Place in Group 5 History

The 935/78 pushed Porsche's Group 5 regulations further than any other 935 variant, with a flat-six pushed toward 800 horsepower in race trim and bodywork that barely resembled the road-going 911 it was homologated from. Run by the factory at Le Mans in 1978 under Stommelen and Schurti, the car finished the race despite its radical, largely untested design, a result that cemented its reputation as one of the boldest interpretations of the silhouette racing rules before Group C replaced them. For collectors building a Group 5 or late-1970s Le Mans display, Moby Dick is close to a required entry, and having it correctly liveried and numbered at 1:43 makes it easy to place beside its more conventional 935 stablemates.

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