There are 21 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 and The Australian Touring Car Classics.

Everything you need to know about the round can be found right here, it has entry forms and the prices for spectators.

There has been a change to ticketing and it is now just a Weekend General Admission pass for $30 and kids under 12 are free.

They’ve also included ‘Cars & Coffee’, this might interest those who can’t race but wants to bring a car along, you go to ‘register your car’ on the website, fill in the form and you get one free general admission ticket, registering is also free and it must be done by December 7.

The fourth official entry for the round is in, and it is Mick Heppleston who is bringing his #304 Chevrolet Silverado to the great track that is Sandown, there will be more entries to come over the next three weeks.

We have news from AUSCAR 31, work is progressing nicely on the car and as you can see, the car has a new seat and everything associated has been adjusted perfectly, check out all those photos of the #31 Holden Commodore on the wall, pretty neat.

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Last week, we talked about getting some hero cards, here is the first of them, look at that beautiful Ford Thunderbird, looking at the card makes us want to look up how they make such cards.

On the AUSCAR side of things, we have the Pretty’s, another well detailed hero card, technical details were on the back, a good insight to how the cars were run.

This is the Ken James one, there was actually a time not long ago where those 01 Monte Carlo models were reappearing in a spate of garage sales and eBay before settling down again.

Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve been helping our American friend Johnny Ray try figure out the history of his chassis, now there is a big development, while the chassis had a number sequence just like RCR’s early numbering system, it is believed that it actually had been built by Team SABCO.

We know there are ex-Kyle Petty Pontiacs in Australia, so if you do have a Kyle Petty Pontiac from 1990 onwards, check your chassis numbers.

Now that the festive season is approaching perhaps you feel like buying yourself or somebody you like some goodies (none of them are ours) such as this George Elliot jacket, your own Neville Lance hero card , this Kevin Schwantz signed and framed card or a Kevin Schwantz poster and what about a Jim Richards hero card?

Perhaps you want to complete your die cast collection with a 05 Holden Commodore AUSCAR model from when Peter Brock made his second and final AUSCAR appearance?

There’s also a Calder Park Thunderdome hat, the price is not bad but the shipping cost sure has a lot of bite, that’s overseas shipping for you but if you want something original, this is it.

For the last couple of weeks, we’ve been helping research the history of the #4 Holden VS Commodore Future Tourer as we attempted to help fill in its AUSCAR history.

The logbook said its chassis was WSR1 and logically that pointed at Wayne Smith Racing but we had to be sure about these things and so we went digging.

The then available history to us recorded that Leigh Moran raced the car in Future Tourers in 2002, so we had a find the link between Wayne Smith in 1999 and Leigh Moran in 2002.

Troy Perichon’s sharing of the car in the V8 Sleuth comments section about Future Tourers got a little reaction but no answers.

So, we put out an appeal on AUSCAR Racing and Mark Telfer had the answer, the car was driven by him in 2001 with the entrant being Wayne Smith Racing and the number #37.

So now that we had the driver, number and team before Leigh Moran all was left was a little bit of a history gap which was the year 2000 and so we looked up 2000 events on Natsoft and Christian D’Agostin was listed in Future Tourer race results as driving the #37 for Wayne Smith.

Leigh Moran put the icing on the cake by confirming the details and now we know that Troy Perichon has an ex-Wayne Smith AUSCAR turned Christian D’Agostin, Mark Telfer and Leigh Moran driven Future Tourer.

Speaking of Future Tourers, if anybody out there owns one and you need a category for your car to join, please contact Troy Perichon to make your 2027 plans to race a reality and get to race like it was 1999 again which isn’t a bad thing at all.

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 for their car(s) 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, all for free.

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.

Sponsors do help keep teams alive, and it does not matter if it is a big sponsorship or a small one, it all helps in the end.

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

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.

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?

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.