We’ve made it to December, back in the day we’d be enjoying watching a Thunderdome race later this month either in person or catching the highlights of the race on TV.
This week was spent completing writing about the championship journeys of all four SCA champions (Jeff Stubbs, Robert Marchese, Jamey Hollier and Michael Rice), the videos made by Roy Ellery were a fine addition to each of the reports.
There’s still plenty more to do before the year is out, we’ll be writing a recap of Richard White Racing’s year and doing the year in review and anything else that people may need us to write about.
Winton’s YouTube channel gave users a small taste of the sight and sound of the #71 Ford Falcon driven by Jamey Hollier.
Time was taken out this week to resume having some fun with NASCAR Racing 2003, today was doing basic versions of the #1 Terri Sawyer Pontiac and the #27 Kim Jane Pontiac, might soon have enough for an All-Australian lineup.
Parts Wanted
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.
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.
Some recollections say the Miller car went to Paul Scicluna; some say the car known for being ex-Petty was last sold only six years ago which makes it hard to be Paul’s car as Paul has had his car for a quarter century.
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.
The trail goes cold after Gold Coast 1992.
As you can see, the right side of this Oldsmobile has a Lumina 3/4 window.
It appears that the Ron Goodman #05 also has a Lumina 3/4 window on its left side too making it a very odd-looking Oldsmobile, just as odd as ‘George’ is.
It would be interesting to know why the Oldsmobile was selected instead of a Lumina, was the #05 originally all Lumina? or was it previously all Oldsmobile and it was in the middle of a reskin?
Assuming it is the Elliot car, either George’s team fully changed the Goodman Oldsmobile into a Lumina after it was given back, or they just replaced the front to a Chevrolet Lumina after the Olds one took a beating on the Gold Coast, and it then served as a ride car with an Olds rear bumper.
Hopefully somebody who worked on George’s team in 1992 recalls a car going to Ron Goodman and then getting it back after the Gold Coast and knowing where it went next.
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.
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