There are 28 days to go until the racing action gets underway at Sandown Raceway to wrap up the 2026 season.

Don’t forget there is going to be plenty to see from December 4 to 6, HQ Holden, Excels, the Australian Endurance Championship, Sports Compact, the BMW E30s and the Australian Drivers Championship as well as our mighty Stock Cars Australia.

Those who like their Supercars will also be treated to a new spectacle at the event, The Australian Touring Car Classics, it was put together by Jack Perkins along with Rachael and Ben Eggleston, the category will showcase Supercars from the 2000s up to around 2017 and perhaps even earlier.

Everything you need to know about the round can be found right here, it has entry forms and the prices for spectators, it is $20 for Saturday admission, $40 for Saturday and Sunday combined, $30 for just Saturday and kids under 12 are free.

Colin Matton is the third official SCA entry for the round (picture from Calder Park 2024), that means you’ll see no less than three SCA AUSCARs on the track which is great as they great competitors.

Lukas Gates on Halloween gave ASCN followers a treat and no trick when showing the #22 Holden Commodore being prepared for Sandown.

Unfortunately, ASCN will not be at Sandown, our camper won’t be quite ready for travelling 1850km there, we’re feeling a bit glum not being able to go but we’ll save for 2027 and appear maybe in Sydney or QLD if the 2027 features any Queensland tracks (please do) or Calder Park if it is back on the schedule, somewhere we’ll be there.

Dodge this week was announced as returning to Cup competition in the United States, SCA of course is getting Sam Gibson in the #50 Dodge to help fly the Dodge flag here.

As you can see one nice Dodge motor is back in the car and the gearbox is back in it too.

There’s even more Stock Car news, The #1 Holden VT Commodore got to stretch its legs at One Raceway giving the O’Hara’s the opportunity to get it nicely setup and find and solve any issues that only track use can uncover, the consensus at the end of the test was that the car ‘drives really well out of the box.’

Earlier this week, we saw a photo of the #47 Ford Falcon, we don’t know whether it is a new photo or an older one as people in AUSCAR Racing last saw it surrounded by cars and it was dusty.

If anybody has a photo of Rod Dawson’s pit crew from his Toohey’s Red sponsorship, please let Shane Douglas know, there is a Rod Dawson sticker available on eBay.

We’ve acquired four hero cards, they are of Darryl Speers, Neville Lance, Ken James and the Pretty’s, the #31 one will be scanned and given to Jamie Jordan as soon as it arrives early next week, hopefully Monday.

Attention owners of any Future Tourers, if you need a category for your car to join, please contact Troy Perichon to make your 2027 plans to race a reality.

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, those who have followed the racing closely would have noticed the business on the front of the #26 Holden Commodore driven by Brad Lighton as well as being a race sponsor.

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 right below and on the website for as long as you like.

Sponsors Wanted

Are you and/or your business looking into sponsoring a car? Eddie Ivermee is looking for sponsors for his #23 Oldsmobile Cutlass, this car is the only Oldsmobile in the field, that fact is guaranteed to get attention by photographers and by streaming services like Blend Line TV when they are showing races.

With no less than four rounds in a season and a maximum of four races per round, there is no shortage of visual opportunities for your business, if you are interested, please contact Eddie.

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

Need a set of Holden AUSCAR wheels? Brad Hall has a set selling for $500, a saving of $340 from earlier advertisements.

A remote engine oil cooler is selling for $200 on Facebook Marketplace, located in Hervey Bay, a nice area not far from ASCN HQ.

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

Chevrolet SB2.2 Engine – $25,000
Chevrolet Engine (DAI 048) – $40,000
Dodge R5P7 Engine – $22,400
Dodge 358 Engine – $29,000

Looking for a Scalextric Thunderdome set? There is one on Marketplace, it only has the #17 car and is priced at $150.

Vehicles For Sale

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, and the car comes with a lot of spares too from car body parts to wheels and tyres.

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.

Cars Wanted for Buying

Phil Muffet is looking for a Chevrolet Lumina to buy; there are still a number of them in Australia and hopefully somebody is ready to part with one or two, the nicer condition that the car is in, the better.

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.

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.

We are looking for information on a Future Tourer, this is the #4 VS Commodore that was driven by Leigh Moran and it was looked after by Image Racing.

It was an AUSCAR, a biography from the Touring Car Challenge website states its AUSCAR history was from 1991 (nothing further), it became a Future Tourer in 1999, and it raced in the 2000s in categories like the Future Tourers and the Touring Car Challenge.

Chassis is named WSR1 in the log, theories are that it is Leigh Moran’s AUSCAR post conversion or somebody sold a Future Tourer to Leigh Moran and/or Image Racing (Terry Wyhoon), could WSR mean Wayne Smith Racing? Could the number four be the answer?

The #1 VT Commodore began its Commodore life at Fastrack (unveiled in December 1999) before eventually making its way to the O’Hara family and a life in Stock Cars Australia.

The chassis did have a life somewhere before Fastrack, but details have been muddled up, it does offer up one clue, the chassis was a light blue.

So, who aside from John Sidney Racing had a blue chassis?

The #2 Lumina (the ex-Ian Thomas one that Barry Blake was unfortunate to hit) has the above on the dash, it is an Aroneck Racing Car #3 badge, that symbolises that it came from 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.

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 was the one that was leased out to Ron Goodman in 1992, it has also theorised that Walter Giles used 8/27 when he went between Buick and Chevrolet Lumina eras.

The 05 in 1992 was notable for being an Oldsmobile front and back but had Lumina 3/4 windows just like the #3 Lumina has in the present day, it is also noted that the nose of the #3 Lumina has less paint layers than the rest of the body indicating that was installed later on.

We are hoping there is proof somewhere out there to solidify the story of the car.

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

See you next week.