49 days to go until the 2025 season starts at Winton Raceway.

There’s a new post by AUSCAR #31, this post is their first for 2025 and is about engines as they continue to work towards getting the #31 AUSCAR back on the track.

Cole Davis continues to work on his #38 Ford Falcon, testing is expected to take place in a couple of months’ time before it makes its SCA debut.

The #22 AUSCAR’s Facebook page is going well, their last post shows that the engine from the Holden Commodore is out of the car and is receiving updates for the upcoming season.

Richard White Racing is busy getting the #3 Lumina looking good for the Adelaide Motorsport Festival, notice anything about the above photo? No pink, this is from the right front guard.

The outer yellow, blue and white we know to be from the Kim Jane era and the Brad Jones era but the yellow in the centre is interesting as it looks darker.

We’re still no closer to finding out where this car came from, somebody out there must have taken photos of an Oldsmobile car in the NASTRAK fleet between 1989 and 1992, someday will be our lucky day.

Eddie Ivermee’s #46 Oldsmobile is a couple of months from completion, but it will be at the Colac Motorfest Show n’ Shine this Sunday so if any readers are near Colac, go check it and other fine vehicles out.

The hole in the bonnet is from the time Donald Hudson turned the Oldsmobile into a record setting salt flats car, the then numbered 417 hit 357kph on Lake Gairdner in South Australia.

We’re asking Thunderdome programme owners from the beginning of 1991 until the last round of the 1991/92 season to keep an eye out for anything that says where the third Ian Thomas Olds came from, the first two Olds were ex-Morgan-McClure cars with one ending up being turned into a Lumina (see the sale and Brewer article) and Denzil Mead got the other with Allan Grice using it too but we want to know where the third Olds came from before John Faulkner got it.

Out of curiosity, would the rebodied Monte Carlo be the Mead Lumina or the Mead Oldsmobile?

That’s it for this week, sometimes it is hard to put into words how hectic things can get in the Stock Car world, but it is definitely moving along at a good pace.

Don’t forget drivers, if you have news, drop a line, ASCN is open 18 hours a day.

See you next week.