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In case you lost track when you finally fell asleep last Saturday night, Les Vingt Quatre Heures du Mans is over. It ended our time Sunday morning and Toyota won. Ferrari was the front runner at GTE Pro, followed by Corvette, Ferrari and then the Porsches. The race remains one of the epic spectacles in all of motorsport, in which the largest sports cars in the world compete against each other twice around the clock.
It would be something to take part in this race one day. But buying your own LMH car – a competitive LMH car like you saw from Toyota this year – runs into the millions. And is this modern era really the experience you are looking for? If your tastes go back a generation or three, here’s a handy, money-saving suggestion: buy a 1/8 scale hit from Amalgam.
Amalgam is the company in the UK that meticulously build, accurate-to-scale models of the largest cars ever made, then display them in glass cabinets and put them up for sale. Just in time for this year’s Vingt Quatre, “The Amalgam Collection: 24 Hours of Le Mans” was released.
Amalgam Collection has entered into a partnership with the Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO) and “… this new cooperation with the ACO paves the way for exciting future collaborations.” For our purposes, this means that Amalgam will now build cool models of great racing cars from the eventful history of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
There are some nice cars here, from 1:18 to 1: 8 and larger. The price may not be cheap, but a lot less than in reality. You can get a number of 1:18 scale cars for just under $ 1000, while larger, more detailed cars are closer to 20 grand. Here are a few favorites.
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Model: 1971 Le Mans winner (Martini paintwork, weathered race)
Scale: 1: 8
Price: $ 19,952
No collection of Le Mans greats would be complete without some Porsches, and if you have Porsches you have to have a 917. There were so many of them, we saw 14 of them at Pebble Beach last week. What you see is car # 22, which was driven to victory at the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1971 by Dutch driver Gijs van Lennep and Austrian racing driver Helmut Marko. This car is presented in its late race condition, with road grime and body damage as seen in a photo of shooter Rainier Schlegelmilch Giclee, the imprint of which the car does. This model is 20 grand because it’s 1: 8 scale, but a 1:18 scale version is “in development”. And Amalgam points out that you can break the sticker price of $ 19,952 into four convenient installments of just $ 4,988.
PORSCHE 917K
Model: 1969 Le Mans winner
Scale: 1: 8
Price: $ 15,394
The 1969 winner, driven to victory by Jackie Oliver and Jacky Ickx, was the last GT40 to win at Le Mans. To make this model, Amalgam did “deep research and extensive development” for two years with the help of Ford and Gulf Oil. The model is based on the real chassis # 1075 exactly as it was when Ickx drove it over the finish line in La Sarthe. It’s 1: 8 scale, so about 20 inches long with a sticker over 15 tall. But be honest, you will never afford the real thing, and even if you can afford the real thing, you’ll want this model to go with it.
FORD GT40
Model: 1937 Le Mans winner
Scale: 1: 8
Price: $ 18,562
“Only three Type 57 tanks were ever produced,” Amalgam reminds us, “the first disappeared shortly after its presentation at the Paris Motor Show in 1936 and was never seen again. This model is based on the second, the famous 57S -based 57G tank that would win the French Grand Prix later that year, driven by Jean-Pierre Wimille and Raymond Sommer, who finished the 80 lap 1000 km race in 7: 58: 52.7 and emerged victorious by 50.6 seconds. Further successes followed in the next year when the 57G, driven by Wimille and Robert Benoist, was victorious in the Le Mans 24 Hours after 243 laps. That was seven more than their closest competitor in second place. Wimille would go on to win the race again in 1939 with the third tank, the Type 57C. “
And on your desk when you buy one of these.
BUGATTI TYPE 57G “TANK”
Model: 1963 Le Mans (weathered race)
Scale: 1: 8
Price: $ 19,952
Jag was certainly an early success story at Le Mans and won many races with his mighty D-Types. What you see here is a lightweight E-Type that competed in the 1963 24 Hours of Le Mans, driven by the Americans Briggs Cunningham and Bob Grossman. Jaguar never intended the E-Type to be driven, Amalgam says, but it was a perfect fit for the FIA’s GT category for production cars, so Cunningham and Grossman took off. The car was brightened up with aluminum body panels and an aluminum engine block, but a brake failure and subsequent crash meant the two only finished second in class and ninth overall.
JAGUAR LIGHTWEIGHT E-TYPE (LWE)
Model: Winner of the Le Mans class in 1962
Scale: 1:18
Price: $ 970
Amalgam recalls in its catalog that only 36,250 GTOs were produced from 1962 to 1964 and these cars are perhaps the most coveted classics of all time. None of the 36 cars were identical. The bodies were all hand pounded in Scaglietti’s workshop with aluminum over a wooden frame, but this is where the resemblance stopped. This model is the number 19 car, the winner of the 24 Heures Du Le Mans 1962 GT class, driven by Pierre Noblet and Jean Guichet. The couple won the class confidently and landed on the overall podium. Ferrari continued this winning streak on each subsequent lap, which resulted in Ferrari winning the championship that year with a maximum of 45 points.
FERRARI 250 GTO 3705GT
Model: 1995 Le Mans 3rd place
Scale: 1: 8
Price: $ 15,394
Le Mans wasn’t all Fords and Ferraris. In the mid-1990s, things took a slightly different direction as cars got closer to their production cousins. And although production of the McLaren F1 was limited to just 106 cars, technically it was still like the car you could drive on the road. While a McLaren F1 took first place in 1995, this is a 1/8 scale replica of the third-place finisher, driven by Andy Wallace, Derek Bell and Justin Bell.
MCLAREN F1 GTR HARRODS
Model: 1967 Le Mans 2nd place (class winner)
Scale: 1:18
Price: $ 970
You may remember seeing something like that flying through the air in Ford versus Ferrari. The 330 P4 is certainly one of the most beautiful shapes ever built, on or next to four wheels. This was the car that was sent into battle with Ford’s mighty GT40 in 1967. It didn’t win but came second. And it looked amazing to do. This one, driven by Ludovico Scarfiotti and Mike Parkes, finished four laps ahead of Gurney and Foyts Ford.
FERRARI 330 P4
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