Soviet racing driver, engineer and car designer Edgar Lindgren had a very long career in motorsport, lasted from 1950s to 2000s. Lindgren, born in 1935, began racing motocross for the Moscow Higher Technical School in 1955. In 1970, he began working for MADI (Moscow Automobile and Road Construction State Technical University), and also started racing single seaters – Estonia 15 in the Soviet Formula 4. In 1971, he finished fourth in the series classification. In the 1976 season, he made his debut in the Soviet Formula 3 in Estonia 18M. A year later, he debuted in the Soviet Formula Easter, where he finished fifth in the classification, and also debuted in the Peace and Friendship Cup (28th place). In 1978, he was assigned Estonia 19 and was seventh in the Formula Easter, and thirteenth in the Peace and Friendship Cup. In 1979, together with mechanic Vladilen Doronin, he designed his own project called Estonia-MADI-02. With this car, Lindgren won the Formula Easter vice-championship in 1980–1981. In 1981, he was sixth in the Peace and Friendship Cup. A year later, again in cooperation with Doronin, he designed the Estonia-MADI-03 car, with which he won the third consecutive Formula Easter vice-championship; in the Peace and Friendship Cup, he was seventh.
In 1983, Lindgren won the Formula Easter championship, the Peace and Friendship Cup vice-championship, and seventh place in the final of the 8th Summer Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR. In 1986, he took fourth place in the final of the 9th Summer Spartakiad, and at the end of the year he changed his car to Estonia 21M . In 1987, he took eighth place in the Formula Easter USSR Championshpi. In 1988, he was sixth, and in 1989 – third. In 1990, he made his debut in the Polish and Czechoslovakian championships. In 1991, he won the vice-championship of the Formula Easter.
After the collapse of the USSR, Lindgren continued racing. He became 3-times Russian champion in Formula Vostok in 1993 – 1995, and won the ASPAS Cup, Russian Formula 1600 series, in 1998.
The scale model represents Lindgren’s Estonia 21M car from the 1988 season when he was classified 6th overall in the USSR Formula Vostok Championship.
| Season | Series | Event |
| 1988 | Formula Easter | USSR Championship |
| Driver | No. | Entrant |
| Edgar Lindgren | 71 | MADI / DOSAAF |
| Scale | Manufacturer | Collection |
| 1:43 | Boris Pershin | |
| Cat. No. | Quality | Rarity |
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Conversion of Estonia 21 model be PCT from de Agostini Avtolegendy SSSR Collection
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