Welcome to the last Spring 2025 edition of Aussie Stock Car News though it sure felt that Summer 2025/26 arrived early in parts of the country this year.

The season may be over, but SCA drivers are still cutting laps somewhere as Robert Marchese (Holden VY Commodore), Laurence Mckinnon (Ford XE Falcon) and Dave Brien (Holden Torana XU-1) all went to Bathurst last weekend for Challenge Bathurst.

All three had four runs of five laps plus practice over the weekend and they had done well.

Drive Events has one more event this year for those wanting to go to Calder Park, it is on December 18 and the cost is $200, save $50, there are 6 x 15-minute sessions plus a BBQ lunch will be had there and the chance to do some passenger sessions, don’t forget extras like Motorsport Australia license, garage hire etc.

Brad Burgess is looking for a G-Force gearbox, it is wanted for his #47 Toyota Camry Stock Car build, Stock Car Brake and Suspension parts from 2009 onwards are also wanted, if you have any Australian sources of these parts, please let us know and let’s help get this Toyota going forward.

There are three ex-Marcos Ambrose cars in Australia, there is the #59 Ford Fusion, the #9 Ford Mustang and the #47 Toyota Camry.

It is now 100% certain that Eddie Ivermee’s Oldsmobile was named ‘Intrepid’ by Tropic Coast Racing; while he was getting his dashboard ready for painting, he removed the switch plate and when looking at the back of it, he saw that side of the plate was engraved with ‘Tropic Coast Racing’ and ‘Intrepid’.

So, if you got a Stock Car, check the back of the switch plate, it may reveal something interesting.

While we were dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s about Eddie’s Oldsmobile, we were a bit puzzled about the car known as ‘Destiny’.

Fastrack in the 90s brought a car off Ian Thomas, a Lumina and the switch plate said Destiny but here is where the story goes all over the place.

An article written about Marshall Brewer’s purchase stated it was the Dick Trickle used TCR car, but those ex-Morgan-McClure cars were known to be the ex-Robin Best driven car that Paul Stocker owned from May 1994 (not Eddie’s one) and the other was a road course car in November 1994 (turned Lumina after Destiny existed).

In an article published before the 1996/97 season, Peter Sportelli said that Kevin Schwantz wrecked Destiny (that is true) at the Thunderdome, he said the car received new front and rear clips and a Monte Carlo body.

The puzzling thing is that in August 1996, TCR published an ad offering a Lumina that had new front and rear clips and a new body which seems to fit what Fastrack got, the car at Fastrack sure wasn’t a Monte Carlo.

So, it is a good thing to check multiple sources and see where it takes you, one source is never enough unless of course a car has been a one owner car.

Earlier this week, we got the Cricut Maker 4 machine and started to have a little bit of a play around with to see what it can do, one thing that it can do is make stickers.

So, we gathered SCA AUSCAR pictures that we had taken from 2023-2025 and put together 18 stickers.

In the maker, you make up the stickers you want and put the boundary around them, put sticker paper in a printer and then print it out then you stick that paper on a mat and the machine cuts the outline of the stickers out, peel off the sticker paper and you got yourself a sticker sheet.

In the near future, we’ll experiment with Stock Cars and then OzTrucks and just have some fun with them.

In other news, our Facebook page reached 400 followers after it was stuck on 399 for a couple of weeks.

For Sale

If you have a Stock Car, an AUSCAR, a 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.

You may just have the car, the parts or the skills that somebody really needs.

Information Most Wanted

We met Paul Scicluna at Calder Park, he is looking for information on his #12 Pontiac Grand Prix.

This Pontiac raced at the Grand Prix round in 1999, it finished 23rd, 10th and 16th for the weekend.

The information we have received is that the car came from Les Kennewell and he got it from Robert Tinworth.

Determining which car from the Tinworth team is not as straight forward as Robert Tinworth said ‘l had 5 of them’ when asked about his cars in 2020.

The car may have been referred to as ‘The Beast’.

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.