More than 140 veteran vehicles will be based in Forbes for the next week, for the 2018 Veteran Cars of Australia Rally.
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The event has been years in the planning, and it’s all coming together with the pre-1918 cars and motorbikes to arrive in Forbes this weekend.
The organisation’s national president John Burke has made numerous visits to Forbes over four years of planning, working with local community groups and Council to prepare a program for the visitors.
He’s hoping locals will take the chance to see these veteran vehicles.
If you’d like to see the cars, drivers will be registering for the rally at Town Hall on Sunday afternoon and they will be flagged off for their first day trip, to Parkes, from Town Hall about 9am Monday.
They’ll be departing McFeeters Motor Museum about the same time Tuesday, to enjoy a day in Grenfell.
Wednesday will be spent in Forbes, on display around Town Hall and Victoria Park from 1-4pm and then the feature of a very special evening parade through the town centre.
Drivers will light the acetylene lamps on the vehicles, and make two laps through town as dark falls.
Forbes Business Chamber is hoping community members will come down and enjoy the spectacle, then linger for a beautiful evening in town.
There will be food available, children’s games, music and dance entertainment.
The cars will park up in Rankin Street so we can all have another look at them.
Thursday and Friday mornings the cars will again be leaving from McFeeters, between 8.30 and 9.30am.
On Thursday they’ll be heading to the Eugowra Showground, where they will enjoy a yard dog trial demonstration, and then on to Canowindra and Gooloogong. Friday will wrap up their tour with morning tea at Jemalong Weir and lunch at Bedgerabong.
