There are 29 days to go until Round 5 racing action takes place at Calder Park Raceway, 28 days to go if you count the optional Friday practice.

Preparations are well underway as vehicles are being readied, accommodations are getting booked, budgets are fine-tuned and those (like us) who are going by a road trip, things like good music playlists are being readied.

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.

Troy Perichon who will be driving the #6 Ford Falcon is the first entrant for the round; it is the second round of the season for the #6 Ford Falcon as it had appeared at Winton.

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

Roy Ellery has posted a recap of the previous round at One Raceway; Daniel and Jeff Stubbs taken home two wins apiece and that means their Stock Car championship battle will be resolved at Calder Park.

Anything can happen on November 7 to 9 so make sure you get to Calder Park to watch the conclusion as there is plenty of championships to be decided and more.

AUSCAR #31 posted a new photo from the 1990s of the AUSCAR in action, the #31 is being chased down by the #25 of Terry Wyhoon who would go on to be champion of that season.

Please consider giving the #31 team and the #22 team a like on Facebook and join the #14 team group, the team is just five people away from reaching 600 members.

Over at the #46 Oldsmobile team, work continues on the car, Eddie has put a lot of work into the car in recent weeks as the remains a possibility of being on display at Calder Park.

Thanks to Norm Chong, the history of the car has become clearer thanks to a small detail that was spotted.

Norm sent Eddie a photo of three of the Tropic Coast Racing Oldsmobiles in a line in the team workshop in 1992, the photo seems pretty standard until when looking through the window of what is now Eddie’s car, the ‘Intrepid’ sticker that was seen in the John Faulkner Racing era is seen, it was recognisable due to the way that the I was written.

This means that John Faulkner Racing inherited the Intrepid name when they purchased the car in 1993, it was recently discovered that the outline of the I in Intrepid is still on the dash, 33 years after the car arrived in Australia.

This week we saw that a recent ‘Rusty Cars Down Under‘ video showed the #00 Pontiac in the background and a Generation 6 Camaro is being prepared for shipping to Australia, it looks and sounds good.

For Sale

There are 29 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.