There are 134 days to go until the 2026 Australian Stock Car Championship gets underway at Sydney Motorsport Park, it is nice to have our countdown back.
The 2026 schedule is out and once again New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria will be playing host to rounds.
As you can see the season finale will once again be at Calder Park (it better not rain again) on November 6 to 8, SCA is back with the Hi-tec Oils Super Series for that round.
The 2026 season will make its presence felt in three different series including the brand-new AASA Nationals Series.
Round 1 – AASA Nationals Series
Round 2 – VMRC
Round 3 – AASA Nationals Series
Round 4 – VMRC
Round 5 – Hi-tec Oils Super Series
If you have a Stock Car, an AUSCAR, an OzTruck (or a Truck Series truck), a GTA or a V8 suitable for Stock Cars Australia and you want in on the action in 2026, contact Zac at Stock Cars Australia.
Richard White Racing have released an eight-minute video giving you a great look at the team’s run at Calder Park Raceway including some fantastic in-car footage from Race 3 and 4.
It was great luck that the footage was filmed on the largely dry Sunday and not the wet, windy and quite freezing Saturday.
The latest from the AUSCAR #31 team is that the car will be using the original spec Dave Bennett alloy heads and Yella Terra‘s world-renowned roller rockers
SCA unveiled their new logo today, some of you may have seen it on flags at the presentation at Calder Park but now you will be seeing it on cars and across social media and it looks great.
Western Australians last weekend got to see ‘Silvie’ which is Jeremy Gunson’s immaculate looking Truck, some lucky people got to sit in the truck that is almost ready for action in WA.
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.
One car that gets mentioned a lot is the ex-Kyle Petty Pontiac that was later the Harrington Commodore and then the Tinworth Pontiac, we’ve read somewhere it was sold a few years ago which if true would not be the car we seek as Paul has had his car since before 2000.
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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