The third round of the 2026 Australian Stock Car Championship was held last weekend at Winton Motor Raceway.

Spectators and viewers were treated to a great weekend of racing and hopefully the action sparked the interest of new spectators to the category and the interest of car owners who have the cars but need a good category home to race them.

The great news is that Roy at MotorsportArchives.com was there to record the action and you have some great video from Race 1 to look at.

Video from Race 2 is also available and there is more to come on the weekend.

A couple of weeks ago, Zac put his #2 Chevrolet Lumina up for sale, the purchaser of the car was Eddie Ivermee.

There are a couple of options for Eddie with this car, from a simulator to a show car and whatever Eddie decides to do, he will do it well as we’ve seen his handiwork with the #23 Oldsmobile Cutlass.

There are a number of Luminas in Australia still, there’s Richard White’s #3 Lumina, there is the ex-Walter Giles Lumina that ended up being a yellow #1, there is the ex-Jimmy Ellis Lumina that is being restored, there is the ex-Ian Thomas Lumina named ‘Destiny’ and there’s a #47 Lumina out there plus who knows what has been forgotten or is hidden out there as well.

On the subject of Luminas, if any of the above are interested in selling a Lumina, let Phil Muffet know as he is looking to buy one.

Over in Western Australia, Jeremy Gunson only has the tailshaft left to do on his #4 Chevrolet Silverado, it will be a bit of time before it is on the track as Jeremy is waiting for ‘Diviant’ the Zemunik’s car to be completed and also be ready for track usage.

While looking through the hundreds if not thousands of photos on ‘Bring NASCAR Back to Australia’ to count up the number of available Luminas, there is a photo of Robin Best’s #60 Ford Thunderbird that he had tried qualifying for the 1990 Coca Cola 600 with.

The car has always been intriguing, so a search was done on YouTube looking for any qualifying video and there was a video recorded by a spectator and sitting on pit road was the #60 along with Dick Johnson’s #38 and Trevor Byers in the #06.

The best look is at the 1 minute 42 second mark as the #3 is moving down pit road.

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
Dodge R5P7 Engine – $22,400

Vehicles For Sale

$50,000 can buy you a Ford F-150 truck that was driven by Rick Carelli for Phelon Motorsports, the pairing had taken home one win and finished the 2001 season in 15th position.

The Truck is also on Facebook marketplace either to buy complete, a roller or just buying the engine.

The #9 Chevrolet Monte Carlo that you may have seen with George Kulig is for sale for the price of $20,000 but it is missing an engine, gearbox and brakes.

The car has had Stock Cars Australia experience; it had participated in the Queensland Raceway round in 2024.

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? There’s the #20 HQ Holden complete with the AUSCAR VIN ‘A 625’.

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, turnkey 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 had a little bit of mystery to them whether it is a mystery about their past or their present location is a mystery.

If you have any answers to the following, drop us a line by commenting on this post, messaging on Instagram, sending an email or a message on Facebook.

The #2 Lumina that we posted about earlier has the above on the dash, it is an Aroneck Racing #3 badge, that symbolises the third car on the team, we’re wondering does anybody from Tropic Coast Racing know if it is original to the car or it was part of a cache of parts and the dash was put in the car.

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.

Somewhere towards the NSW coast was one of George Elliot’s #55 Luminas (yellow Pennzoil/Peters sponsorship) and maybe a Les Kennewell car next to it as part of a collection, it has been years since the photo was seen, do these cars still exist?

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.