Market Find: A 1969 Porsche 911S Race Car That Once Carried Monte Shelton's Number 57

The 1969 911S was the first 911 built on Porsche's longer 2,268mm wheelbase, and the first 911S to get Bosch mechanical fuel injection in place of carburetors — a genuinely significant year in the model's early development. This particular example has spent more of its life on a racetrack than a road. Currently listed on PCARMARKET's marketplace by Spain-based dealer ClassicCarsAndorra at a $106,000 buy-it-now price (the highest offer on file so far is $60,000), it's a numbers-matching 911S that was pulled from street duty and rebuilt into a dedicated vintage-competition car in the early 1990s — and it carries the name of the man who raced it.

The conversion is thorough and well documented rather than cosmetic. According to the listing, the car retains a period-correct 1,991cc flat-six built by Porsche tuner Dick Elverude (a credit that traces to the seller's own description rather than an independently confirmed record), paired with a close-ratio Type 901 5-speed manual transaxle, 930 Turbo front brakes, a welded 6-point roll cage, a Sparco racing seat, an ATL fuel cell, and its original Fuchs alloy wheels. The bodywork carries lightweight doors, hood, and engine-lid retention pins along with Perspex rear quarter windows — standard period race prep, not a modern restomod's idea of what a race car should look like. Under the Martini Racing livery and number 57, the seller says the factory Irish Green paint is still visible in the door hinge areas, consistent with the Porsche Certificate of Authenticity that documents the car's original color.

The name attached to the car is the more interesting part. Monte Shelton, who prepared this 911S for historic racing in the early 1990s, was one of the most accomplished amateur-turned-professional Porsche racers the Pacific Northwest produced. Driving for Porsche in the Trans-Am series between 1976 and 1987, he won five races; his record of seven victories at Portland's Rose Cup Races, built up over five decades of entries, has never been matched. His best finish at the 24 Hours of Daytona was third overall in 1979, sharing the car with Bruce Canepa and future Indianapolis 500 winner Rick Mears. Shelton co-founded the SCCA's Oregon Region, was inducted into both the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame and the Northwest Motorsports Hall of Fame, and kept a competition license for more than 60 years — his final race came just two months before he died in June 2019, at age 85. Between his professional career and his death, he kept racing this 911S in SCCA and Porsche Club of America vintage events; a tech-inspection sticker still stuck to the windshield dates to the Portland Historic Races of July 2005, one of several period decals documenting the car's competition life well beyond its original early-1990s build.

The sale includes a clean Oregon title, the Porsche Certificate of Authenticity, and SCCA/PCA logbooks that name Shelton as the car's driver — the kind of paper trail that's genuinely hard to fake and genuinely valuable for a car whose entire worth rests on its racing history rather than its originality. The seller pegs output at roughly 225 hp, though notes that earlier documentation with the car cited as much as 255 hp — a gap the listing doesn't resolve, and a reminder that a 56-year-old race car's exact specification is rarely a settled question. Buyers in the listing's comment section have raised similar questions about specific engine and induction details, which is normal territory for a car with this much history and this many hands in its past. What isn't in dispute is the provenance on paper: a documented Monte Shelton race car, for sale an ocean away from the Oregon roads and racetracks where he spent 60 years of his career.