1/24 Opel Astra V8 Coupe Team Holzer - Tamiya 24248  [24248]

Towards Opel Astra V8 Coupe - Opel Team Holzer

The 2000 period of DTM (German Touring car Championships) happy European motorsports fans with plenty of fender-to-fender action unfurled by three major automobile manufactures: Mercedes-Benz, Opel, and Audi. Building with this particular excitement the 2001 timeframe, the battle framework ended up being truly changed from two 100km occasions on a single time for you to at least one 35km super sprint qualifier battle, followed by the 100km main battle with mandatory tire modification. Like in 2000 period, Opel joined eight finely tuned products in battle. Different improvements was in reality designed to several of those devices including extended wheel bases and modified aerodynamics. Although fundamental as a kind of these racecars cannot differ significantly from production as a type of the Opel Astra, some got big bumper spoilers, over-fenders, side-skirts, rear-wings, and different race-oriented goodies. But probably the many salient feature regarding the 2001 cars ended up being the gull-wing doorways that launched and shut via roof-mounted hinges. The goods was at truth ready with 460hp outputting 4-liter V8 devices, which transferred ability to a big component tires via a six-speed sequential transmission. Driving first regarding the 3 items entered by Team Holzer finished up being expert motorist Joachim Winkelhock of their vivid orange colored unit. Although Opel Team Holzer had an arduous time getting noteworthy battle outcomes through the whole initial 50 percent of summer season duration, the team's winning potential finished up being revealed whenever Winlkelhock took 4th location through the whole 5th battle at Norisring, where the cars battled it from general public roadways shut to traffic.

Specs & qualities

• 1/24 scale, total height: 196mm, total width 81mm. Model replicates unit driven by Joachim Winkelhock under Opel Team Holzer.
• Gull-wing design doorways are effortlessly exposed and closed despite construction via metal hinges.
• elements for propping up gull-wing doorways have already been correctly recreated within model.
• Roll-cage and car-interior was replicated combined with the utmost authenticity.
• Taillights utilize clear, clear red, and clear orange elements.
• metal transfer markings are included for grille, emblem, bonnet and door-catch.