The real racing history of our listed slot cars for sale #1 Tony Adamowicz's 1968 Trans-Am Porsche 911S

# The Real Car Behind the Model: Tony Adamowicz's 1968 Trans-Am Porsche 911S

Every slot car in the ScaleXseller cabinet has a story, but few are as scrappy and unlikely as the orange #7 Porsche 911S that FLY Slot has immortalised in 1:32 scale. Before it was a display-case collectible, it was a battered, salvaged street car turned giant-killer” and it ended its debut season as America's Under-2-Litre Trans-Am champion.

## From wrecked to raced

The story starts with Marvin Davidson, a Wall Street stockbroker and weekend racer who partnered with driver Tony Adamowicz at the end of 1967 to build a proper Trans-Am effort.Davidson bought a Porsche 911S, the team prepared it out of a converted school bus garage in Wilton, Connecticut, and took it to the Daytona 24 Hour  where Davidson rolled it in the infield near sundown, destroying the car.

That crash effectively ended Davidson's driving career;his business partners reportedly told him he could be a stockbroker or a racer, not both. So Adamowicz became the team's sole driver, and the pair went looking for a replacement car. What they found wasn't glamorous an orange 911S that had been stolen, vandalised, and left sitting in a police impound lot in Queens, New York. That unglamorous, salvaged coupe became the car FLY has now modelled: chassis #7, run by the newly formed Milestone Racing team.

## A giant-killer season

Milestone Racing was a shoestring operation by the standards of the era headquartered out of a Sunoco service station, run by a small crew including chief mechanic Mac Tilton, with Adamowicz doing the driving. Working with what was largely a stock 911S rather than the ultra-rare factory 911R, the team leaned on careful gearing and jetting changes for each track rather than exotic parts.

It worked. Across the 1968 SCCA Trans-Am season, Adamowicz and the #7 Porsche won six of thirteen races and set five track records, eventually stringing together five consecutive victories at Bridgehampton, Meadowdale, Mont-Tremblant, Bryar (Loudon), and Watkins Glen  that mathematically clinched the Under-2-Litre class championship before the season even finished. It was Porsche's second consecutive U2 title, following Alfa Romeo's dominance in the category before 1967.

## The Riverside race on the box

The livery captured on the FLY model — box label reading "Riverside 1968" comes from near the end of that campaign. By the time the series reached Riverside International Raceway in Southern California on 8 September 1968, the championship was effectively already decided. The car wasn't as fortunate on the day itself: an engine failure ended its race 78 laps in, a repeat of a similar mechanical DNF two weeks earlier at Continental Divide Raceway in Colorado. Fittingly, that's also the result FLY records on the model's box a DNF that didn't matter, because the title was already won.

## Why the story stuck around

The #7 Milestone Porsche wasn't just a period curiosity. Adamowicz went on to a broader motorsport career — Can-Am, Formula 5000, a start in the 1970 Indianapolis 500, and a class win at the 1969 SCCA Continental Championship. Decades later, the original Milestone crew Adamowicz, Tilton, and mechanic Don Breslauer reunited with Porsche master builder Marc Zurlinden to build a faithful recreation of the championship-winning car from a period-correct donor chassis, which Adamowicz then drove in historic events including the Monterey Historics and Rennsport Reunion.

It's a fitting arc for a car that started life as recovered stolen property: a genuinely humble underdog story that ended in a national championship, then came full circle as a piece of preserved motorsport heritage — and now sits, in miniature, on a shelf as a slot car.

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*This piece accompanies our FLY Slot 1:32 Porsche 911S "Riverside 1968" (Ref. F17101), available now.*