There are 85 days to go until the first round of the 2026 season gets underway at Sydney Motorsport Park.

Entries are now open for the event, it is early, but we will keep it up here weekly, so when the time comes for drivers to put their entries in, they will know where to find it.

Formula Ford, AASA Tin Tops, Formula RX8 and Legend Cars are also on the bill for April 25-26 with action taking place under lights and on the Druitt circuit.

A reminder that AASA is having a combine at Winton on February 18 and 19 if anybody is interested, all details including cost and how it is run can be found here, it is considered to be a dress rehearsal or scratch match to get competitors used to 2026 AASA rules etc. so you could see a variety of categories being represented there.

This is from the AC Delco shirt that we had mentioned last week, this shirt still has the tag on it, the shirt was by Australian Spirit and the tag says, ‘Continuous Recall’.

For those of you who are following the progress of Eddie Ivermee’s Oldsmobile through our weekly editions, the work on the car is pretty far long now, it has progressed to the point that any further reports would have massive spoilers of what it looks like and so we are now all awaiting the reveal of the car.

Eddie did ask a question ‘Bit of a long shot, but does anyone know what Motorsport Australia (CAMS) category the ex-NASCAR stock cars ran under in the Power Tour? or would anyone possibly still have an old logbook floating around for reference?‘

The series Eddie is referring to is V8 Stock Cars that ran in 2001 and 2002, a couple of the cars are in SCA or owned by SCA people like Laurence Mckinnon’s #25 was there as the #11 and Zac owns the #27 (then the #2) and the #19 Pontiac Grand Prix plus there’s a few more we know the locations of.

The answer provided by Zac was 2A SCC.

Don’t forget in this leadup to the 2026 season to please follow a couple of team pages, there is Richard White Racing – RWR, 22 AUSCAR and AUSCAR #31 and Botheras family racing auscar adventure.

22 AUSCAR has 31 followers and 10 following, Richard White Racing – RWR has 242 followers and 36 following, AUSCAR #31 has 64 followers and 24 following and Botheras family racing auscar adventure has 597 members.

Sportsman videos on YouTube are in short supply but one of the 1993/94 races at Sydney Motorsport Park is on YouTube, and it shows the #14 Holden Commodore that Paul Botheras now owns in pretty good detail, unfortunately in this race it was parked after having a mechanical issue, it is the yellow car in the background of the thumbnail.

Parts Wanted

Do you have a Pontiac Grand Prix bonnet that is just taking up space? Phil Muffet needs one for one of his two Pontiacs, so if you’re eager to sell one, please contact Phil and help get the project closer to completion.

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 with a very interesting project ahead, one that will be greatly helped by a sale.

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.

Check out the above video to see the car in action at Calder Park Raceway in November 2025, the #8 Monte Carlo had won one of the four races that weekend.

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 are looking for parts of histories on a couple of cars, the problem we have is that while people have given us answers, the answers do differ and so we seek written, verbal or visual proof to sort the histories out.

Paul Scicluna 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.

An advertisement in January 1997 offered four Pontiacs for sale, two front steer cars with 23-degree engines and two rear steer cars that were to be sold as rollers.

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.

So, if you know the answer, please let us know.

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 before Brad Jones got it.

We have two different opinions on this car; one is that Brad Jones got it from George Elliot (George 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 does have an AUSCAR VIN of A 053 which indicates that it was competition used by somebody.

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 as its earliest paint is Brad Jones white.

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.