There are 8 days to go until Round 5 racing action takes place at Calder Park Raceway, 7 days to go if you count the optional Friday practice.

Entries are open, if you are also doing Friday Practice you need to do both entry options as Friday is run by Drive Events, a Motorsport Australia license is required for Friday.

Stock Cars Australia will be occupying the NASCAR garages, a nice, spacious area to use.

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, use this link if would you like to buy your tickets online.

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.

We always follow the VMRC website for entry updates, but it hasn’t been updated for a couple of days, but we know all of the above eight cars and their drivers are going to be in action.

The weather for next Friday and the weekend is currently for wet weather conditions 1 to 5mm each day so make sure you bring a coat, an umbrella and a towel to wipe a wet seat just in case it is true.

Rain has always played a part in the Stock Cars Australia story at Calder Park usually for its quirkiness, it rained just as Race 2 finished in 2023 and it rained all night, it had no impact on the next day, in 2024, rain threatened to wash out Sunday and we watched on the radar map the rain coming straight for Calder Park before it suddenly dissipated into drizzle.

For Sale

If you have a Stock Car, AUSCAR, Sportsman or a HQ for sale, drop us a line any time and we’ll advertise it for free, it can be a complete, turn key car, a car missing some parts or even if it is just a roller, we’re also happy to advertise the sale of parts and promote offers for working on cars.

As you can see, the #02 Ford Falcon Sportsman is not here, the first steps of the car having a new owner have been taken and hopefully we’ll see the #02 in a different category soon.

Information 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.