Test report by CoMod Lotus for the Carrera DIGITAL 132/Evolution Porsche 917/30 'No.48' (30572/27367)
It's finally on the market!
We've had to wait long enough for this version of Porsche's 1100 hp, racing door wedge. The versions released so far, the Sunoco and the CAM2, are truly beautiful cars, especially race cars. I just can't do much with road cars on a racetrack. But my absolute favorite among the 917/30s is the recently released yellow racer with the Bosch livery.
The car already existed as a slot car. The manufacturer in the 1970s was Fleischmann (yes, they also built slot cars, and not bad ones). Although that's not strictly true: the Fleischmann model was a 1972 917/10, and the Carrera car is the original 1974 Donohue/Penske Porsche, chassis number 006. In 1979, the car passed into the possession of Vasek Polak. After the death of the well-known racing driver, Porsche collector, and dealer in 1997, the American Chris Gruys bought the car and repainted it with the current Bosch livery. The yellow one was one of my favorite cars 20 years ago. To be honest, it never saw the racetrack because I simply felt it was too precious for that.
When you compare the two vehicles, you realize that the two models aren't worlds apart, but galaxies. The build quality today is a dream compared to the car of that time. It's also more stable; the "Fleischmann" (meat-makers) practically had a predetermined breaking point above the front axle, as the body was so thin there that the front end would break off after a hard crash. The Carrera forgives almost everything, which of course doesn't mean you should drive it into every wall; it's simply too beautiful for that.
Enough raving: Buy the car and put it in your own slot. Or, as in my case, in your display case.
CoMod Lotus
It's finally on the market!
We've had to wait long enough for this version of Porsche's 1100 hp, racing door wedge. The versions released so far, the Sunoco and the CAM2, are truly beautiful cars, especially race cars. I just can't do much with road cars on a racetrack. But my absolute favorite among the 917/30s is the recently released yellow racer with the Bosch livery.
The car already existed as a slot car. The manufacturer in the 1970s was Fleischmann (yes, they also built slot cars, and not bad ones). Although that's not strictly true: the Fleischmann model was a 1972 917/10, and the Carrera car is the original 1974 Donohue/Penske Porsche, chassis number 006. In 1979, the car passed into the possession of Vasek Polak. After the death of the well-known racing driver, Porsche collector, and dealer in 1997, the American Chris Gruys bought the car and repainted it with the current Bosch livery. The yellow one was one of my favorite cars 20 years ago. To be honest, it never saw the racetrack because I simply felt it was too precious for that.
When you compare the two vehicles, you realize that the two models aren't worlds apart, but galaxies. The build quality today is a dream compared to the car of that time. It's also more stable; the "Fleischmann" (meat-makers) practically had a predetermined breaking point above the front axle, as the body was so thin there that the front end would break off after a hard crash. The Carrera forgives almost everything, which of course doesn't mean you should drive it into every wall; it's simply too beautiful for that.
Enough raving: Buy the car and put it in your own slot. Or, as in my case, in your display case.
CoMod Lotus
