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Porsche 935 Jolly Club #3 C. Facetti / M. Finotto 24 Hours of Daytona 1977 Minichamps 1:43

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Minichamps' 1:43 diecast Porsche 935 reproduces Jolly Club's #3 car, driven by Carlo Facetti and Martino Finotto at the 1977 24 Hours of Daytona. The sealed-body casting carries the Italian team's livery with sharply registered graphics and tight panel lines over the 935's widened turbo bodywork. A fitting piece for collectors tracking the international teams that traveled to IMSA's marquee American endurance event.
Porsche 935 Jolly Club #3 C. Facetti / M. Finotto 24 Hours of Daytona 1977 Minichamps 1:43
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Porsche
Manufacturer
Minichamps
Scale
1:43
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
New Model
SKU
400776303
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About the Porsche 935 Jolly Club #3 C. Facetti / M. Finotto 24 Hours of Daytona 1977 Minichamps 1:43

TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:43 diecast Porsche 935 reproduces Jolly Club's #3 car, driven by Carlo Facetti and Martino Finotto at the 1977 24 Hours of Daytona. The sealed body carries the Italian team's livery over the 935's widened turbo bodywork, a distinct entry in the car's dominant late-1970s endurance racing record.

Daytona's 24-hour race drew international entries throughout the late 1970s, and Italy's Jolly Club made the long trip across the Atlantic more than once with a Porsche 935 in tow. Facing IMSA's homegrown competition on its own soil, the team's #3 car represented one of European racing's most recognizable turbocharged silhouettes on American asphalt.

Jolly Club's Facetti and Finotto at Daytona 1977

An Italian Team Racing IMSA's Daytona 24

Jolly Club built its reputation in Italian domestic racing and rallying before extending its ambitions to international events like the Daytona 24 Hours, a trip that meant shipping cars and crew across the Atlantic for one of endurance racing's toughest tests. Daytona's high-banked oval combined with its infield road course put unusual stress on a car's tires and cooling systems, conditions quite different from the European circuits Jolly Club normally competed on. Carlo Facetti and Martino Finotto had already built a strong partnership racing together in Italy, and taking that experience to Daytona reflected the team's genuine international ambitions rather than a one-off appearance for prestige alone.

The 935's Dominance in Late-1970s Endurance Racing

By 1977 the 935 had become the car to beat across nearly every major endurance series, its turbocharged power and aerodynamic bodywork giving it a decisive edge over most GT and prototype competition it faced. Factory examples wore Martini colors, but the 935's success extended well beyond the works team, since Porsche made the car available to well-funded privateer and semi-privateer teams who could then compete on genuinely level terms. Jolly Club's entry represents exactly that pattern, a European team fielding factory-caliber machinery at an American event and finding itself competitive against IMSA's strongest homegrown efforts. That accessibility helped cement the 935's reputation as the defining GT racer of its era.

Minichamps' 1:43 Take on a Daytona-Spec 935

Jolly Club Livery Registration and Number Panels

Jolly Club's livery relies on a distinctive color combination and sponsor placement that differs noticeably from the Martini factory scheme, and Minichamps reproduces the team's specific graphics with tampo-printed accuracy rather than a generic 935 paint job. The #3 door numbers sit flat against the body with clean edges, and the registration between the team's sponsor panels and the car's base color stays consistent across the model's larger flat surfaces. Getting an independent team's livery correct matters just as much as reproducing a factory car, since collectors who focus on 935 variants often value the diversity of privateer liveries as much as the more famous works colors.

Turbocharged Silhouette Proportions in Fixed-Body Form

This 935 carries the same widened arches and lowered nose that defined the model's silhouette-racing bodywork, cast here as a sealed one-piece shell rather than an assembly of separate opening panels. That construction keeps the wide-body panel lines crisp and continuous, tracing the actual shape of the 935's flared fenders rather than smoothing them into a simplified casting. Zinc alloy diecast gives the model real weight in the hand, and the paint sits on that hard metal base with consistent gloss across the car's dramatic bodywork. At roughly eleven centimeters long, the model matches the shelf footprint of other 935 variants from the same manufacturer, making side-by-side comparison easy.

An IMSA Entry Point for Porsche 935 Collectors

Because the 935 raced under so many different team liveries through the late 1970s, a Daytona-specific entry like this Jolly Club car gives a collector a natural way to build variety into a 935 display without repeating the same Martini paint scheme across multiple models. Pairing this car with other Daytona-era 935 liveries, including American IMSA teams, traces how widely Porsche's customer racing program reached across continents in a single season. At 1:43, several 935 variants sit comfortably along one shelf, their shared silhouette shape making an interesting study in how differently teams applied paint and sponsorship to the same basic car.

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