There are 120 days to go until the first round of the 2026 season gets underway at Sydney Motorsport Park.

This is the last edition for 2025 as our next scheduled edition is set for January 2, 2026.

Ten years ago today, what became ASCN was originally thought up on a wet and miserable Boxing Day 2015, and the home internet was spotty thanks to rain getting into the neighbourhood telecommunications box which greatly reduced reliability, and it had made watching ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ a bigger epic than it already was as it was watched in small chunks so there was a lot of time to think in between buffering sessions.

The original idea of the site which was called World of AUSCAR was to try and make sense of all the information that was on Facebook, there was a lot of conflict, and there still is as memories fade, histories get mixed up and even newspaper and magazine reports from the time got details mixed up which adds to the craziness.

Thankfully Stock Cars Australia was starting to make tracks in the motorsport world and so instead of writing about the past all the time, we could also write about the present, and it turned out well.

Thanks to you, ASCN has enjoyed increases of site visits for all but one year since 2017, this year has seen a 31% increase on 2024’s record setting numbers, thank you to all who come to celebrate Stock Car racing in Australia.

If our year ends with a flourish, we may reach 15,000 site visits for the year, regardless of if we do get there or not, we have had a great year.

While the festive season is in full swing (pretty much runs until January 2), work has not stopped on the Oldsmobile owned by Eddie Ivermee, you got to love the blue of the engine.

Hopefully these reports of the progress of the Oldsmobile inspire people with their builds or perhaps inspire somebody to seek out a car to their work on.

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

The #8 Monte Carlo is for sale, this car was built in 1999 for Joe Bessey and was run in Winston Cup competition, it was driven by Geoff Bodine and other drivers in 1999 and 2000, it went on to be raced in SCCA competition and then it was brought to Australia by Graham Booth and it has been around SCA since the very beginning.

Don’t worry fans, Richard White Racing isn’t going anywhere, they’ve got plenty of Stock Car racing left in them for the future.

You can buy the car as it is, you can buy the car with a fresh engine, or you can buy the car and have Richard White Racing prepare it for the 2026 season.

If you’re interested, check out the link above that has all the details and then contact Richard.

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.

Additionally, if you want to buy a car, tell us what you want, what condition you want it (complete or roller) in and your price range and we will post it for you.

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.

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.