Welcome to Most Wanted, Australia has had a lot of Stock Cars since 1988, some have vanished from sight, and some have clouded histories, where did they go? what is their story? perhaps you will be able to help solve a mystery.

John Maultsaid had three Thunderbirds, one is the ex-Terry Wyhoon Australian built car that Noel Heenan uses on the salt flats, one is a car that Todd Wanless and Dick Howe had both driven and got wrecked as the #11 at Albert Park in 1999, the third car was later owned and driven by Martin Borrows.

Where did the Martin Borrows driven Thunderbird go?

Pete Nolan drove his #47 Ford Thunderbird at Albert Park in 1999, this car was one of two ex-Charlie O’Brien Ford Thunderbirds, the car went on to Rodney Brewer, and we don’t know where it went afterwards.

The #31 Oldsmobile of Johnny Rutherford, it went to George Elliot, but nobody remembers where it went afterwards, the engine may have went into the #2 in 1990.

This #8 ride car was identified as being an ex-Race Cars & Engines #31 Oldsmobile, and those team cars were used by NASTRAK which explains how George Elliot would have had the car to sell to Brad Jones.

The mystery is, did anybody use such an ex-NASTRAK car to run a race or two before 1994/95?

Ron Goodman’s Commodores, he had two, one was rebuilt after being famously barbequed in a crash, the other was a ride car, they haven’t been mentioned in decades, what happened to them?

The race car was up for sale for $10,000 without an engine in 1997, ads stopped running in Motorsport News in April 1997.

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?

Brad Jones had the Chevrolet Lumina named ‘Elroy’ and the Chevrolet Monte Carlo named ‘Kevin’, where did they go? Could they still exist today in North America or another continent?

Two Chevrolet Monte Carlos with Holden Commodore bodywork parts were prepared in the USA for the 2000/01 season

After the Bob Jane era ended at the end of the 1999/00 season, they were left in America and were later used at Pikes Peak, who ordered the two cars?

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 that is seen in ex-Phil Barkdoll 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.