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The Gen6 specification Camaro has been purchased by an Aussie collector and will be raced by Richard White in this year\u2019s Stock Cars Australia National Series.<\/p>\n
SCA promotes a five-round series spread across AASA and Victorian Motor Racing Championship events featuring ex-NASCAR, AUSCAR, Sportsman, GTA and OzTruck machinery.<\/p>\n
White and his team are regulars with a pair of Chevrolets \u2013 a Lumina dressed as Dale Earnhardt\u2019s #3 Goodwrench car and a Monte Carlo that pays tribute to Earnhardt Jr\u2019s #8 Budweiser machine.<\/p>\n
The latest car to come under the care of White\u2019s eponymous team has also been finished in Earnhardt colours, although he is still trying to track down its provenance.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t know the full history at the moment, but it is an ex-Hendrick Motorsports Gen6 Camaro, 2019 body,\u201d White told Speedcafe.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s definitely ex-Cup. Hendrick grinds all the chassis numbers off, which makes it hard, but we\u2019re trying to find out [more information].<\/p>\n
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Richard White with the Gen6 Camaro. Image: Brooke Marangos Media<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been prepared by Rhine Enterprises in Denver, North Carolina.<\/p>\n
\u201cBill Rhine is a well-known restorer of vintage stock cars and does a lot of work with building cars like ride cars and show cars for NASCAR and Toyota.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Camaro arrived in Australia in February and was recently taken to Winton for its maiden local laps following a shakedown on a chassis dyno.<\/p>\n
Although cagey on exact numbers put out by the Richard Childress Racing V8 under the \u2018hood\u2019, White said it\u2019s good for more than 800 horsepower.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s more power than what I\u2019ve had in my previous cars,\u201d he said. \u201cWe didn\u2019t have time to do any setup work on the car, but it has a lot of promise.\u201d<\/p>\n
The most eye-catching element of the car is the livery, which White said is a tribute to both generations of Earnhardt.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe front half of the car is Dale Sr\u2019s sort of forgotten 1981 livery and the back half is based on the 2010 Daytona Nationwide win that Jr had,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Earnhardt Jr\u2019s Daytona victory came in a throwback scheme featuring the Wrangler colours made famous by his father.<\/p>\n
White, 44, is a mechanical engineer with a farming operation outside Ballarat, making the workwear brand somewhat fitting.<\/p>\n
He is an unashamed Earnhardt fan whose interest in NASCAR stems from childhood.<\/p>\n
\u201cMe and a mate were probably a bit of an odd pair of Aussie kids in the \u201890s following NASCAR,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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White gave the car a shakedown at Winton. Image: Brooke Marangos Media<\/p>\n
White had a brief involvement with the Australian NASCAR scene during his teenage years, as well as banking work experience with Supercars squads including Perkins Engineering.<\/p>\n
Although focusing his career away from motorsport after a brief spell as an engineer in the Development Series, a love for NASCAR brought him back in as a competitor.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was really during COVID that I sort of got a bit more time at home, watching a few vintage NASCAR videos on YouTube,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI found out the Stock Car [Australia] Series existed and just started tracking down some cars.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m definitely an Earnhardt man and it just worked out that when I bought the Lumina out of Tasmania, it had already been done in the Goodwrench livery.\u201d<\/p>\n
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RWR\u2019s Monte Carlo and Lumina also carry Earnhardt colours. Image: AASA<\/p>\n
White\u2019s team will run his Lumina for series organiser Zac O\u2019Hara at the opening round as part of the AASA National Series at Sydney Motorsport Park on April 25-26.<\/p>\n
The Monte Carlo, which was originally raced by Geoff Bodine in 1999\/2000, is up for sale.<\/p>\n
Now over 25 years since the last Aussie NASCAR\/AUSCAR event on the Calder Park Thunderdome, nostalgia is driving car owners to get local machines back on track.<\/p>\n
That and new imports such as White\u2019s Camaro have organisers hopeful of attracting 15-20 cars for this year\u2019s opening round, pending the developing fuel crisis<\/a>.<\/p>\n The RWR-run machine will be the first Gen6 Camaro to race in the Aussie series. Image: Brooke Marangos Media<\/p>\n White is meanwhile pleased to see a growing appreciation for NASCAR in Australia that has largely stemmed from Shane van Gisbergen\u2019s move from Supercars.<\/p>\n He hopes his team can play a role in helping Aussies get to the United States.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019d like to create a development path for young engineers and mechanics who want to get some experience on these cars before they go to the States,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cWhether it\u2019s young Supercar engineers or Super2 engineers who have got their eye on doing something similar to what James Small or Andrew Dickeson have done.\u201d<\/p>\n Small and Dickeson both cut their teeth in Supercars before relocating to the US and currently work as Cup Series crew chiefs for Joe Gibbs Racing and Kaulig Racing respectively.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Hendrick-2.jpg\")
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