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With only three weeks to go, this year’s Motorclassica is really starting to take shape. Our field of entrants in this year’s Australian International Concours d’Elegance is stronger than ever – 139 cars and 33 motorcycles in all, among them 23 brand new restorations from across five states making their public debut. On the new car front we will see unveilings from Mercedes-Ben ...

  Paul Mathers, Event Director for Motorclassica was recently interviewed by Chris Goodsell from Road Ramblings. Click the video above to hear the interview. ...

Some of Australia’s rarest and most valuable number plates will be on offer to collectors and investors, in a new auction initiative at Motorclassica at the Royal Exhibition Building on Saturday evening 13 October.   Shannons Auctions and VicRoads Custom Plates have combined forces to present the ‘Rare Heritage Number Plate Auction’, the first-ever number plate auction to be he ...

This month’s newsletter comes live to you from the biggest concours d’elegance in the World, Pebble Beach in Monterey, USA, where the Aussies are celebrating a win! But more about that later… By the time you read this, there will be less than seven weeks left until our own display of Australia’s finest automobiles and motorcycles at Motorclassica. Boy it sure does come around q ...

Motorclassica’s first-ever Live Restoration Theatre will be the centrepiece of a three-pronged education-theme at the 2018 event.   The Southern Hemisphere’s premier automotive exhibition for classic and collectible cars and motorcycles, Motorclassica, now in its ninth year, will again be staged at Melbourne’s Royal Exhibition Building, 12-14 October.   Set to be the most inter ...

Australia’s new Targa Florio Australian Tribute event has joined forces with Motorclassica’s long-time presenting partner Lorbek Luxury Cars, to give the ever-popular Club Sandwich feature a new flavour at this year’s Motorclassica, at Melbourne’s Royal Exhibition Building on 12 – 14 October.   The Targa Florio event’s involvement will bring with it the new Targa Florio Bar, an ...

Less than three months to go and the wheels are well and truly turning here at Motorclassica HQ. In fact, we are bursting our gaskets with so much news that we have decided to tease you a little, and spread it out over the next few months. But don’t let that stop you from reading on as there are some serious “stop press” moments coming right up including a sneak peak from our ...

It might be cold outside, but things are really starting to heat up here at Motorclassica central as we start to lock away the details of this year’s show. Entries for the Australian International Concours d’Elegance have been flooding in and we now have more than 300 cars from which to choose the lucky final 140 which will grace the highly-polished floors of the Royal Exhibiti ...

Australia’s own 1980 World Driver’s Champion Alan Jones will celebrate 90 years of the Australian Grand Prix, at this year’s Motorclassica at the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne on 12 – 14 October.   Jones and his father Stan are the only father-son combination to have both won the Australian Grand Prix in its nine-decade history.   “Not enough Australians realise the si ...

It seems like only yesterday that we closed the door on Motorclassica and said goodbye for another year. And what a show that was, setting records on a whole range of different fronts, the highlights being our celebrations of Ferrari, Lancia, Holden and Moto Guzzi. This year we have coming roaring out onto the track with a whole grid worth of new celebration classes that will ...