29 days until Round 2 racing kicks off at The Bend, 28 days to go until the optional practice sessions start.

Owners/Drivers have until 11:59pm on April 27 to get their online entry in.

Don’t forget V8 drivers that your race car may be suitable for the Muscle Division, check in with Stock Cars Australia.

Apex Hunters United have posted their video ‘Two Nascars, One Crash and A Motorsport Festival’ which is all about their Adelaide Motorsport Festival experience, see the fellas driving the #3 Lumina and the #8 Monte Carlo as well as seeing all the other vehicles on the track, don’t they look fantastic?

Wouldn’t it be nice if one or both of them were able to race in a Stock Cars Australia round? It must be very tempting for them after they had a good run in Adelaide and Blend Line TV is going to be covering Calder Park, has to be very, very tempting.

We have news from the #31 SCA AUSCAR team, they’ve got their steering column good to go, they’ve got some fabrication to do and Perspex for the windows plus the wheels are getting ready for powder coating, everything appears to be coming up Milhouse.

This car is going to be fantastic when it hits the track, and we certainly hope that it will be this year, isn’t it exciting the prospect of close to ten SCA AUSCARs by the end of the season?

We checked in with Jake Frisch from Jake Frisch Motorsport to get the latest news on his #4 Pontiac and the news from Jake is that ‘the steering column is pretty much finished now, seat brackets made up this week, will dummy fit the seat in it when I get time then we can mount the pedal box and finish the floor off‘.

Jake goes on to say that the steering column ‘Was originally a steel housing, fully stripped, refurbished with new bearings, checked for straightness etc. etc. and machined up new aluminium column housing all done in house by my dad Gary Frisch‘.

Check out the different paint on the bars, it is a snapshot of the long life that the car has had when the Lawes Brothers drove the car as an Oldsmobile.

Jake also talked about the fuel filler (see above) saying ‘that’s the dummy fuel filler he machined up so we don’t have to run the full filler neck but can still look like it’s original look’.

V8 Sleuth reported on the re-appearance of the #30 Pontiac, we’ve seen this car online on and off through the years and now it is up for sale at a price of $35,000 which is a good deal for a complete ready to go car plus some spares.

There has never been a better time to sell a Stock Car and there’s never been a better time to race one, there’s always room for a competitor at Stock Cars Australia.

This morning, the above came in the mail, the 1/64 model of the #5 Oldsmobile of Max Dumesny, if you want one it is $20 plus $10 shipping, the #5 Pontiac is there too, go to the Dumesny Racing store if you are interested in it and any other Dumesny merchandise.

Did hit a little snag when I brought the model, the shipping total wasn’t included and I got an adjusted bill a few weeks later, so I sent the $10 and it got posted promptly so do make sure the shipping total comes up for you if buying a car or two.

As you see it does come wrapped and in the plastic box so those are pluses so well worth the money spent.

While browsing through the May 1, 1992, edition of the Auto Action magazine, an ad was noticed and immediately got our attention, the VL AUSCAR/Sportsman and so it was immediately scanned and sent to Pauly Botheras who now owns the #4 in the ad.

The Botheras team are aiming to race this year, they did have an engine setback, but they are hoping to get everything good to go and then get some testing done and then hopefully appear at Calder Park Raceway.

Now to Eddie’s Oldsmobile and it comes down to this, either Doug Taylor built it, or he reconditioned it, the confusion is because that while Peter Sportelli says that Doug built it, Doug says that he reconditioned it so there is a memory conflict, our hope is to find an Auto Action magazine edition that covered Round 1 of the 92/93 season and hopefully the author goes into detail as Ian won the first part of the race.

There is a precedence, when Barry Graham hopped into the #85 Lumina for Denzil Mead, the race report specifically mentioned that Rodney Combs built the car so we’re hoping for the same kind of magic.

Why don’t we automatically accept people’s word about a car? When you get told different accounts about something, you don’t know who to trust, owners/drivers/crew etc. can make a mistake as it is has been 30+ years, so we have to take all the accounts and find verbal or written proof from 1992 etc. to match.

Ford Australia celebrated 100 years this week, let’s take the time to think of all those who have driven a Ford in Stock Cars and remember the Australian NASCAR championship won by Robin Best and the AUSCAR championship won by Leigh Watkins and of course the SCA title won by Scott Nind in the #16 Ford Mustang.

That’s it for this week, a big week which is just how everybody likes it.

See you next week.