There are 36 days to go until Round 5 racing action takes place at Calder Park Raceway, 35 days to go if you count the optional Friday practice.

Entries are officially open, if you are also doing Friday Practice you need to do both entry options as Friday is run by Drive Events.

Stock Cars Australia will be occupying the NASCAR garages, an early entry form had the garages as an option, the current one doesn’t have it, but the SCA price went up by the exact amount of money it would have cost to hire a garage.

For spectators, Friday Practice is free to attend, it is $15 for Saturday, $20 for Sunday and $30 if you want to go for the whole weekend plus kids Under 16 are free.

Joining Stock Cars Australia at Calder Park is the BMW E30 Racing Series, Victorian Super Tin Tops, Sports Compact by 2LSS and the Hyundai Excel Racing Victoria Trophy & Masters.

This Sunday will see Lukas Gates and Troy Perichon at Calder Park Raceway, they’ll be cutting laps in their respective #22 Holden Commodore and the #6 Ford Falcon.

We re-introduce to you a Ford Thunderbird that has had a great history, while the current look and number is unfamiliar to most, this car is the #75 that Dean Wanless drove with great success.

The #47 number and look are from when the car was needed to promote Marcos Ambrose’s move to NASCAR.

The car still has traces of its blue paint, its CAM rollover sticker that V8 Stock Cars had on it, the yellow Thunderdome light, the car even has Tweety Bird inside it.

After the 2002 V8 Stock Cars race at Queensland Raceway, the Wanless cars taken different career paths, the sister car to this one went on to run on the salt lakes which was a popular choice for ex-Stock Cars like the #25 Ford Thunderbird (locally built Wyhoon one), the second #41 that Gene Cook had (not the Phil Muffet one) was reportedly one, the #33 was one too and so was the #46 Oldsmobile.

This car has been sitting idle since the Ambrose promo but current owner of the car, Andrew Atkins, is going to restore the car but fans will have to be patient as it is going to take a while to achieve.

This week we read that the Lumina body on the Seery/Roker/Coon/Ellis car (Oldsmobile and Commodore before the Lumina) is believed to have come from one of the Tropic Coast Racing Luminas that was turned into a Monte Carlo, so we set off to find out which one it came from.

While browsing around, it was reported in the report of the Adelaide round of the 1993/94 season that Ian Thomas crashed at Adelaide in practice, this car was described as an ex-Jimmy Spencer Chevrolet (see Slide 1).

An interview with Peter Sportelli (see above) said that the car ‘Destiny’ was ‘killed’ by Kevin Schwantz and it got a new front and rear clip and was rebodied with Monte Carlo panels.

Scott Williams over a decade ago said that Elvis was the car that was in the wall at Adelaide.

When Marshall Brewer brought a car for Fastrack, the car matching the Adelaide description was reported (see slide 3) however in the same article it was saying the car was the one Dick Trickle had driven (1990 not 1991) and that was not an ex-Jimmy Spencer car, it was an ex-Morgan-McClure Oldsmobile (Slide 5).

When the Luminas were put up for sale, Car #4 was ‘Ex Kodak USA Lumina currently being built’, something is muddled up, either the car is Destiny like the bottom of the Fastrack report states or the 1994 report is accurate and the car that Fastrack received was Elvis and not Destiny.

What a head spinner.

Now for something that does make sense, this website now has a new yearly record, thanks to what looks like spam from Canada unless somebody out there was looking at everything.

Thank you to everybody who has visited the site this year, thank you for all your likes and shares that never need prompting and thank you for your comments, they are always appreciated.

Work continues on the NR2003 mod, the red near the 46 needs to be higher up so that means all the pointy bits will need to be redone but that is all part of the highs and lows of creation, for all the climbing you do, there’s a couple of slides down the mountain too.

For Sale

There are 36 days to go until the 2025 edition of the Calder Classic, you’re looking for a car to buy to be part of the show this year and into the future, we have an option for you, it’s the #02 Ford Falcon XF Sportsman and the selling price is $20,000.

Let’s tell you a bit about it, it was driven by Tony Howlett and after the Thunderdome was closed, it was stored in a shed for many years until purchased by Brad Hall who found it to be in great condition, and he quickly got it into track running condition as you see in the photographs.

It has a 302 Cleveland engine and a 4-speed gearbox, an in-date harness has been installed so you the driver will cut laps on any track in great safety.

While the price may make some initially hesitant, remember that everything has been done for you, there is no need to source an engine or gearbox etc. which are both costly items, there is no shell or body parts to source, no need to spend months or years working on it, there is no need to make the car look good either, it is all there and done, ready for you to race against the likes of the #54 Falcon, the #6 Falcon and many other fine AUSCAR/Sportsman vehicles four-five times a year.

Are you interested? Check out the ad on my105.com and/or contact Brad Hall for further discussion.

Most Wanted

We are looking for anybody who may know with absolute certainty where the above ex-Brad Jones, ex-Kim Jane Chevrolet Lumina ride car nicknamed ‘George’ came from.

We have two different opinions on this car; one is that Brad Jones got it from George Elliot (he isn’t sure about that) and the other is that it came from Walter Giles (the Giles family doesn’t believe that) and both arguments are very confident that they are correct.

It has been suggested that it is the Buick LeSabre of Walter Giles, we haven’t found anything to confirm or refute that, a report has been found that Walter’s original chassis went to Mark Harrison but we’re still looking into it.

The car has Oldsmobile parts like the rear bumper, roofline and deck lid, it has Lumina 3/4 windows, and the front was added later on than the rest of the body.

On the dash there is an imprint of a square on the right side indicating that a plate was there at some time, had this remained we would have likely known its origin.

Pink was found in the surviving layers of body paint pointing its history towards Ron Goodman’s car for the Gold Coast in 1992 and Walter Giles who also had pink cars.

The #05 Ron Goodman Oldsmobile was an ex-George Elliot Oldsmobile as stated in the Round 4 1991/92 programme, it was originally claimed to be a car purchased from George, but a later publication said it was ‘lent’ (leased) to Ron by George, and it was given back to George.

As you can see, the right side of this Oldsmobile has a Lumina 3/4 window.

Somebody out there has to know for sure, Brad Jones getting a ride car had to be a pretty big deal as he only had ‘Elroy’ on hand early on, plus a ride car is a nice way to get more Stock Car laps in too and we believe that would make the car newsworthy.

See you next week.