Exoto Sauber-Mercedes C9 Bundle 1988 & 1987 Ltd.Edition Two Sauber C9 Start Price USD 588.87 Current Price USD 588.87 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Saturday, November 22, 2008 End Time Tuesday, December 09, 2008 Location Buffalo Grove, Illinois See more about 'Exoto Sauber-Mercedes C9 Bundle 1988 & 1987 Ltd.Edition' Description Free International Shipping on "Buy it now" price. Invoice will be adjusted by Diecasm prior to being sent to the buyer with shipping set to zero ($0.00).  Insurance is required.  Applies only to eBay purchases made after November 7, 2008.This is for TWO Sauber C9!!! Car #1:Event: Wold Sportscar Championship and German Supercup Year: 1987 Exterior Color: Black Scale: 1:18 Manufacturer: Exoto - RLG19190 Limited Edition presentation version Together the Sauber C9 chassis and Mercedes V8 engine combination showed potential for great speed right from the start. Reliability had been an issue, however.   In it's first outing, May 1987, the C9 qualified second at Silverstone but only managed to cover half the race distance. The rest of the seasons Sauber competed in some World Sportscar Championship races and in the  German Supercup, with similar results: good qualifying performances but a lack of finishes. The team made progress throughout the season and ended on a high note.   On September 13, 1987 at Spa, Mike Thackwell put the car on pole and though 6 laps down the C9 finally finished a race. Then, just one week later, Jean-Louis Schlesser scored the C9s first ever victory at the Supercup finale at the Nurburgring!   With the taste of victory fresh and a great deal of confidence, Peter Sauber and his Swiss racing team proudly presented the Sauber-Mercedes C9 to the press in late 1987 and promised great things for the 1988 season. The multi-year sponsorship deal with Kouros had come to an end and a sponsorship package for 1988 was still in its infancy. So the C9 was painted glossy black and emblazoned with striking blue and white stripes. The three-pointed Mercedes emblem on the C9s nose foretold of the future... but nobody could have known at the time!Car #2:Driven by: Mauro Baldi and Stefan Johansson Event: 1000km Spa-Francorchamps Year: 1988 Exterior Color: Black Scale: 1:18 Manufacturer: Exoto - RLG18197 The 1987 World Sportscar season had ended on a high note at the ultra-fast Spa-Francorchamps circuit in Belgium: The Kouros C9 had earned it's first ever pole!   For 1988 Peter Sauber was planning to make an even greater impression on the Sportscar competition. The Swiss team continued to develop the C9 and justified the vast effort by claiming pole for almost every race on the 1988 calendar, missing out only at Le Mans and in Japan. Most rewarding, however, was seeing Sauber C9 drivers atop the podium at the Jerez, Brünn, and Nürburgring rounds with three events left!Formula 1 star Stefan Johansson was paired with the diminutive Mauro Baldi to share driving duties at three events. Together the pair had earned the dream result at the 1000km Spa-Francorchamps race: pole position, nearly a full second faster than the rival Jaguar XJR-9 of Lammers/Dumfries, and overall victory too! Relentless rain forced race organizers to call the race, bringing the contest to an end precisely 6 hours after the difficult race began, just 15km short of the planned race distance. It is this particular AEG Sauber-Mercedes C9, wearing Michelin rain tires, that Exoto has proudly reproduced and offers here in grand 1:18 scale!   The two beautiful AEG-sponsored C9s were shipped down to Sandown Park, Australia, for the final WSC race of 1988. There they enjoyed the perfect weekend by owning the front row of the grid and finishing 1-2. And so the stage was set for Sauber-Mercedes' Championship season!Look at it this way, you'd spend almost $850 for these two models at Exoto plus shipping.Visit Diecasm to learn how we bring collectors and non-profits together : www.diecasm.com Place a Bid!