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Porsche 956L #21 Rollei A. de Cadenet / C. Ballot-Lena 24 Hours of Le Mans 1984 Minichamps 1:18

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Porsche 956L #21 Rollei A. de Cadenet / C. Ballot-Lena 24 Hours of Le Mans 1984 Minichamps 1:18 183846921 Diecast
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Minichamps' 1:18 diecast Porsche 956L reproduces the #21 Rollei-liveried car that Alain de Cadenet and Claude Ballot-Lena drove at the 1984 24 Hours of Le Mans. The camera brand's colors stand apart from the era's tobacco and oil-sponsored liveries. A companion piece for a Group C shelf built around chassis and livery variety.
Porsche 956L #21 Rollei A. de Cadenet / C. Ballot-Lena 24 Hours of Le Mans 1984 Minichamps 1:18
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Specifications
Brand
Porsche
Manufacturer
Minichamps
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
183846921
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About the Porsche 956L #21 Rollei A. de Cadenet / C. Ballot-Lena 24 Hours of Le Mans 1984 Minichamps 1:18

TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:18 diecast reproduces the #21 Rollei-liveried Porsche 956L that Alain de Cadenet and Claude Ballot-Lena drove at the 1984 24 Hours of Le Mans. The camera-brand sponsorship and Group C prototype shape make this a companion piece to the era's other privateer 956 liveries.

Collectors of 1980s Le Mans diecast often chase the same chassis across different liveries, and the 956 offers more of those variations than almost any other Group C car.

De Cadenet, Ballot-Lena, and a Camera-Brand Livery

Alain de Cadenet built his reputation as both a driver and a constructor of his own Le Mans prototypes before pairing with veteran French driver Claude Ballot-Lena in this Rollei-sponsored 956 for the 1984 race, a livery deal that put a camera and film manufacturer's branding on one of the era's fastest closed-cockpit prototypes. The pairing reflects how Group C grids mixed owner-drivers with hired professional talent, a structure that gave privateer teams access to real pace without the budget of a factory program. Rollei's livery, dominated by its own brand colors rather than a generic racing scheme, stands apart from the Rothmans and Marlboro liveries that dominated the factory-adjacent entries of the period.

Building a 956 Livery Set in 1:18

Because so many teams ran the 956 chassis through the early-to-mid 1980s, Minichamps has reproduced it across a wide range of sponsor liveries, and this Rollei car is built to the same tooling standard as its stablemates: tight panel lines along the long tail section, tampo-printed graphics rather than decals, and a zinc alloy body with real shelf weight. That consistency matters to a collector chasing multiple 956 liveries, since mismatched build quality across cars would undercut a themed Group C display. Owning several 956 variants side by side also demonstrates just how differently teams dressed an identical chassis, arguably the whole appeal of collecting Group C liveries rather than one-off race cars.

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