There are 127 days to go until the first round of the 2026 season gets underway at Sydney Motorsport Park.
History will be in the making; it will be the first AASA Nationals Series round and hopefully a full field will be able to compete, perhaps even crack 20 entries for the first time, Stock Cars Australia has come close at Sydney Motorsport Park before and with a little luck, we’ll get there at some track in 2026.
AASA has packed on the muscle in recent weeks. announcing series and categories, Super Tin Tops has been a hot topic in recent days as there are an AASA category and a Motorsport Australia category and the how and why has been hotly contested.
Don’t forget the 2026 Australian Stock Car Championship schedule is the following.
Round 1 – AASA Nationals Series at Sydney Motorsport Park (April 25-26)
Round 2 – VMRC at The Bend (June 6-7)
Round 3 – AASA Nationals Series at One Raceway (June 20-21)
Round 4 – VMRC at Winton (August 29-30)
Round 5 – Hi-tec Oils Super Series at Calder Park Raceway (November 6-8)
Meanwhile Eddie’s Oldsmobile continues to take shape, the mechanical boxes are being ticked one by one, then comes bodywork and then painting, as you can see the interior is looking sharp, complete with the TCR switch plate, it is still mind blowing that confirmation of a car’s history was hidden by just a flip of the switch plate.
What number will the car be? We call it the #46 but the reality is that Eddie has lots of choices, he could pick the #14 as the car was when Ian Thomas used it in ARCA, he could pick the #23 that Ian Thomas used in Australia, the #46 that John Faulkner used, the #9 that Eddie Abelnica used, the #48 that Paul Stocker briefly used the car as or the #6 that Doug Moss spent the rest of the 2001 V8 Stock Cars season with.
We woke up this morning to the shocking news of Greg Biffle’s death, Greg, his family and some of their many friends were on a plane that crashed trying to land at an airport, Greg won 56 races across the three major NASCAR sanctioned series, he was a champion in Trucks and what is now known as the O’Reilly Auto Parts series as well as winning Rookie of the Year honours in those series and he was named one of NASCAR’s 75 greatest drivers, Greg was also known for working with charities, he was at a charity event with Ryan Newman on Tuesday and he was known for rescuing and supplying people affected by a hurricane, he will forever be known as a racing legend.
Next week’s edition of ASCN will be on Boxing Day which is good news because it will be the 10th anniversary of the creation of what was then known as World of AUSCAR, it was very small for a couple of years and we’re still here today, more on that next week.
Up next is Parts Wanted, For Sale and Information Most Wanted, hopefully somebody out there has the definitive answers to our long running mysteries, they’re out there somewhere, we just don’t know where.
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 for that particular car goes cold after Gold Coast 1992.
As you can see, the right side of this Oldsmobile has a Lumina 3/4 window which is very interesting.
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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