There are 28 days to go until racing is underway in Round 2 of the Australian Stock Car Championship, the round will be held at The Bend, and it is the second time that Stock Cars Australia will be in South Australia.

It is a VMRC round and so the link to go to for putting in entries and finding out information etc. is right here.

On the bill for the round are the Vic Super Tin Tops, Vic V8s, Hyundai Excel Racing Victoria Trophy & Masters, The Australian Superkart Grand Prix and Holden HQ Racing.

Hundreds of people last weekend at the MOTOREX event at Melbourne Showgrounds stopped by Richard White Racing’s stand, the team gave away posters, they had the #3 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 there, a guess the cost of damage competition, the Stock Cars Australia flag was flying, and a big TV was showing races from the series.

Repairs are underway on the car; a replacement nose will be fitted to the car this weekend.

Coming up on May 15 is a Test & Tune session at Calder Park Raceway, each group gets six sessions of 15 minutes apiece, the cost is $200 and a Motorsport Australia license is required.

If you want to know what the #19 Chevrolet Monte Carlo, the #45 Dodge Challenger and their drivers are up to, now you can with the Zentrix Racing page.

Aaron Noonan at V8 Sleuth wrote up an article on the Stock Cars being at the Australian Grand Prix in 2000, it was the second and last time they were on the bill for an AGP.

Sponsors

Michael Rice’s new sponsor for the two-time Muscle Car Division championship winning #108 Holden VT Commodore is Baxter Motors which is located in Drouin, Victoria.

Shane and the boys have a renowned mechanical service that services all types of machinery from race cars to B Double Trucks with experience and knowledge in all forms of repairs from doing a logbook service to a complete engine rebuild, their helpful advice and cheerful nature is well known in the Gippsland region.

If you’re in the Drouin area and need some help, call (03) 5625 2103 or visit them at 39 Railway Ave, Drouin.

If you have a car sponsor and you want to give them some promotion just like what you see above, we can do that here for you for free, it doesn’t even matter if you own that particular company.

If anybody is looking for sponsors and wants us to post about it, let us know what packages you are offering, and we will put it up for you for as long as you like.

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.

Parts For Sale

Do you need a wheel for your Holden AUSCAR? Brad Hall is selling them for $210 each.

For Sale

The ex-Phelon Motorsports #66 Ford F-150 Truck is for sale; it is an ex-Craftsman Trucks series vehicle awaiting a new owner and it’s a Ford too which is something unique when it comes to Trucks that are in Australia.

If you’re looking for something in the style of the early decades of NASCAR, there is a Ford Galaxie for sale for $25,000, it is a 1969 Ford Galaxie body with a 1989 Randercar chassis with a McGunegill built 347 ci windsor engine, find out more here.

If those two do not get your interest, how about a HQ Holden or two? there’s the #20 HQ Holden complete with the AUSCAR VIN ‘A 625’ or there is Cameron Fisher’s #39 HQ Holden for $20,000.

If you want something historic, how about the Future Tourer that James Brock drove to victory at Bathurst in 1999, it was previously the #03 AUSCAR that Peter Fitzgerald had raced, it is for sale for $69,500

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.

Do you know the fate of this Ford Thunderbird? It is an ex-Charlie O’Brien car (it is not the #41 Ford Thunderbird) that was driven by Pete Nolan in 1999, it was last known to have been owned by a Rodney Brewer.

On the subject of a Ford Thunderbird, if there is anybody in contact with Martin Borrows, we would like to find out what happened to his Ford Thunderbirds, we are hoping that they are still around somewhere as the Thunderbirds are in small numbers and the more that we find, the better.

Does anybody know who ordered two Commodores for the 2000/01 season, a season that did not happen which resulted in the two cars remaining in the USA?

Now that we firmly believe that the #8/#27 ride car turned #3 Lumina was originally an ex-#31 Race Cars & Engines Oldsmobile that was then used by NASTRAK/George Elliot, we are hoping to find out if the car that was leased out to Ron Goodman in 1992 is the same car, it is also theorised that Walter Giles used it when he went between Buick and Chevrolet Lumina eras.

That’s it for this edition of Aussie Stock Car News, thank you for coming.

See you next week.