There are 14 days to go until Round 3 action starts at Winton, time is going by quickly.

Entry updates have been a little slow this week so if you read it and see low numbers, don’t think that Winton will be a bad one because it is going to be a good one.

There were two new entries in the update this week to bring the online entry list to seven and SCA AUSCAR fans will be pleased as they are Jamey Hollier and Lukas Gates.

Jamey is in the EF Falcon and Lukas is in the VP Commodore, so we have a Holden vs. Ford battle on our hands this round.

Troy Perichon reports that four AUSCARs had a successful test run at Calder Park today so look out for new entries as we get closer to Winton.

Entries will be somewhere in the mid to high teens as most of the regulars are expected to be racing plus the number of SCA AUSCAR entrants will be up too.

If you haven’t entered and you’re thinking of joining the fun, visit the VMRC site here.

This week has been an interesting week for the #1 Pontiac, first its past as a brief star of a Mission: Impossible episode resurfaced and then it was announced the car was up for sale.

The car has a price tag of $15,000, it will need a lot of work, it doesn’t have any of the important bits and pieces like an engine, so you’ll need to source that, and the other parts so be prepared to spend to make the historic Stock Car go again.

The news of the #1 Pontiac has also generated a surge of online searches on anything related to Terri Sawyer as people discover that she won the first AUSCAR race and she had also won a Stock Car race.

The Marcos Ambrose Toyota chassis has dropped in price to $25,000, this car will also need a lot of work to get it back onto the track, but you would have one of the freshest Stock Cars in Australia.

The best priced roller is the Oldsmobile, this one is going for $7,500, it has some history behind it, Paul Stocker had it and Robin Best drove it before Paul did, like the others you will need to source all the important parts.

Stock Car Racing in Australia is strong, it isn’t a lack of vehicles that is stopping SCA from becoming bigger, it is a lack of completed vehicles as mechanical issues, time, money and helpers living too far away drag out efforts.

For those interested in our efforts in identifying the history of the #3 Lumina, Larry McInnes has successfully been contacted and Richard White will be chatting with him soon to hopefully get some answers.

‘It was a Walter car brought from George Elliot but had been Walters before that (I think or maybe leased)‘

The above is what Larry said a few years ago, hopefully it was a case of George leasing an Oldsmobile (or an altered Oldsmobile) to Walter Giles who eventually handed it back to George who sent it off to Brad Jones who gave it to the Janes who sold it on to Matt who sold it on to Brett who sold it on to Ray and then it went to Richard.

Chances are that we have all the bits of history sitting in front of us, it is just a matter of connecting it all together but most of the pieces don’t have labels, so research is needed to piece all the snippets of information together.

To wrap up, the success of SVG has led to a boost in the sport in Australia and New Zealand, this means newcomers are joining Australian Stock Cars pages and groups, sometimes they get things wrong, but nobody should bite their heads off because of that, even the pros who have been on the scene since the development of the Thunderdome get things wrong.

Scaring off new and future fans never helps growth thankfully those around Stock Cars Australia treat people with respect, it was great seeing kids come into the garage at Queensland Raceway and they were treated like Kings and Queens, that’s how you become good, numbers of people in a page or group don’t matter, actions do.

Thank you for reading, see you next week.