The Council of Heritage Motor Clubs NSW Inc.

Promotes understanding, knowledge and appreciation of ALL historic vehicles

Encourages the preservation and use of historic vehicles and related automotive heritagE   

CHMC is an active and respected advocate for its members and the automotive heritage sector with government at all levels 

Historic vehicles are not still here with us by accident, they survive because someone has cared for them through time,    or someone has rescued them, just in time

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EVENTS

CHMC'S ANNUAL RALLY 14,15,16 MAY 2027 - MAITLAND 

REGISTRATION MATTERS

for HVS & CVS

CHMC

YOUTH AWARDS

14,15,16 MAY 2027 - CHMC ANNUAL RALLY - MAITLAND 

A WEEKEND OF HERITAGE MOTORING HOSTED BY MAITLAND CLASSIC MOTORING ASSOCIATION

Make your National Motoring Heritage Day 2027 a weekend with like-minded enthusiasts and their historic vehicles touring the scenic lower Hunter Valley. Send in your Registration of Interest Form NOW and book your accommodation.

Rally Information and Registration of Interest Form

CHMC DELEGATES & AGM MEETINGS - OCTOBER 24 2026, Armidale

Meeting starts 10.00 am at Armidale Bowling Club 

What’s on the agenda:
• What your Committe has been doing on your behalf over the last year - reports from the office bearers
• Appointment of office bearers  
• Open floor for general business - ask questions, share ideas - clubs' perspectives shape everything Council does

MORNING TEA AND A LIGHT LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED FOR REGISTERED DELEGATES AND OBSERVERS

Hybrid meeting - for members who cannot attend in-person but would like to follow the proceedings it will be accessible on Zoom. Log-in details provided in Dinkum #38 to club Secretarys and Delegates. 

Host club - Classic & Specialist Car Club Armidale

HISTORIC VEHICLES OVER 100 YEAR OLD DOING WHAT THEY DO BEST Veteran cars and motorcycles toured the Cowra region in September on the week long 2026 National Veteran Vehicle Rally?

78 vehicles from 1905 to 1918 delighted young and old as they motored through Gooloogong, Grenfell and Greenthorpe, Woodstock and Wyangala. Vehicles came from every State and every club in the Association of Veteran Car Clubs of Australia. Congratulations to the 2026 Rally host club, the Veteran Car Club of Australia NSW, a member of CHMC, for a wonderful week of vetgeran motoring. Check out  more photos and videos on the 2026 Rally Facebook 

CHMC WAS FORMED IN 1970 by clubs in regional nsw.   now, its members are historic & CLASSIC MOTOR CLUBS in COUNTRY AND CITY NSW

        club Members own, preserve and restore cars, trucks, motorbikes, buses, tractors and antique machinery that ARE over 30 years old. mEMBERS ALSO HAVE  "youngtimers" - i.e. VEHICLES just waiting till they are old enough to be classed as historic
 These members and their clubs keep alive the sights and sounds of the vehicles and machines that were an integral part of the automotive and transport history of Australia. Some of their vehicles are more than 100 years old, others are from the 1990s, some are rare, some are unique, and many are everyday vehicles from our nation's past. All are examples of our country's automotive culture and history. 

THE FUTURE FOR HISTORIC VEHICLES?

CHMC monitors issues, trends and developments that affect the future of historic vehicles and their operation. Our contacts, in Australia and internationally, include peak bodies in historic motoring, and operating heritage groupsand government agencies, through them we obtain factual and reliable information and have opportunities to advocate to them on the future of historic vehicles. For more information and news on fossil fuels for heritage vehicles;  calculating CO2 emission for historic vehicles; historic vehicles and the environment; and EV conversions of historic vehicles

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