There are 50 days to go until Round 3 of the Australian Stock Car Championship is held at Winton Raceway (August 29-30).

Before that, the SCA AUSCAR field is going to Winton to participate in the 2026 edition of the Winton Festival of Speed from July 23 to 26 2026 along with other AUSCAR and Sportsman owners as well as many other racing categories.

There has been a change of plans for the #71 Ford Falcon, Alex Hollier will be behind the wheel of the car for the event.

An interesting part of the change of plans was the fact that Jamey Hollier mentioned an XF Falcon, new cars or returning cars always get people interested and we look forward to seeing the XF Falcon that they have in the future.

News of the AUSCARs being at Winton has been spread further by an article by V8 Sleuth’s staff which is a good thing as they have a big readership and that means more potential opportunities.

Remember that if you see somebody wishing that NASCAR or AUSCAR was back in Australia, give them a link to Stock Cars Australia, the more that are informed that it exists, the bigger that things will become.

You may have seen this Chevrolet Lumina for sale earlier this week, the ad tells precisely the shape it is in and its Australian history, but we are here to tell you a little about its American history.

The car started life as an Oldsmobile for Aroneck Racing, it was the #53 and it was given the team car number 3 as it was designated for Super Speedway use at tracks like Daytona, Charlotte and Atlanta.

It appeared at the 1990 Daytona 500 and was driven by Jerry O’Neil to a 31st place finish, the above image is from the 1990 Daytona 500 and Jerry actually drove one race for the No. 2 team that same season.

The car was prepared by Doug Taylor, and this information came from Danny Crump who worked at Aroneck Racing and was very happy to answer our questions about the car when we done some research a while back after being curious about the Aroneck plate on the car.

There are plenty of Stock Cars in Australia with then Winston Cup history, Stock Cars Australia’s #3 Lumina was an ex-Race Cars & Engines #31 car, and the #41 Ford Thunderbird was a #19 Little Racing car.

Quite a number of cars in Australia were either prepared by Doug Taylor or came from NASTRAK who got a number of their cars from Race Cars & Engines, some came from those who brought from Blue Max Racing.

We welcome all new followers to our Facebook page, we currently have 480 followers and 19 following, if those 19 are different to the 480 then we are sitting on a combined total of 499, one person away from the 500 milestone, that milestone would be worth celebrating.

Sponsors

Sponsors are very important in motorsport and below are some of the sponsors that either sponsor cars or races in a round.

West Heidelberg Motors are located at 34 Lillimur Ave, Heidelberg West VIC 3081.

Burgess Design and Build, they are located at 27 Market St, Goulburn NSW 2580.

Zoom Auto Care offers Mobile mechanical services and Race car services in the Goulburn, Tallong/Marulan and the Southern Highlands areas, if you interested in Zac’s services, call him on 0458132904.

Zoom Auto Care does have a Motor Vehicle Repair License with their license number being 63282.

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.

Engines are popular at the moment including a couple of Toyota and Chevrolet engines plus a Dodge engine.

TRD Phase 9 Engine – $35,000
TRD Phase 14 Engine – $60,000
Chevrolet SB2.2 Engine – $25,000
Chevrolet SB2.2 Engine – $27,000
Dodge R5P7 Engine – $22,400

For Sale

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 that does 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 want a Generation 5 body shell, one is now available, it is a Camaro made by Five Star, it is the one that Michael Bouts raced at Calder Park in 2023, you’ll find it in the group Race Cars 4 Sale Australia if the link doesn’t work for you.

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 whereabouts of cars and finding out parts of histories on a couple of cars, we’ve had some success in finding cars that have

In 2023, the above #2 Chevrolet that was raced in ARCA was spotted in South Australia and Victoria, it has not been mentioned since, where did it go?

The car was driven in ARCA by Dustin Hapka in 2012 for Wayne Hixson; he drove it at Elko Speedway and Kansas Speedway for 18th and 32nd place finishes.

Last reports suggested that the car was being auctioned, hopefully it is still in the country.

One thing that has puzzled us is that Bob Middleton was driving the #95 at Calder Park Thunderdome in 1999 looking like the above, in 2026 he was driving the #85 in Adelaide and its interior looked the exact same including the red square seen on the right side, a feature seen in Phil Barkdoll’s cars.

Either the #85 and the #95 look exactly the same (and are both ex-Phil Barkdoll cars) or the #95 later became the #85, we’re curious to find out what’s the story.

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 and was the #6, the number was styled just like Mark Martin’s was at the time but it did not have a Valvoline livery.

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 where the #88 Ford Fusion has gone? It has been a couple of years since it was last mentioned.

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? The above car is one of the two.

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.