Centennial Cavalcade a world first

27 JUNE 2018

To mark its 100-year anniversary in September, the Victorian Automobile Chamber of Commerce (VACC) is conducting a community event it believes has never occurred before anywhere in the world.

The VACC Centennial Cavalcade, to take place on Saturday, 22 September, will muster 100 different vehicles from 100 different years in an unrepeatable centenary celebration that honours motoring in all its forms and the automotive industry that underpins it all.

The VACC Centennial Cavalcade will leave Calder Park Raceway (north of Melbourne) and finish in Bendigo, where VACC was founded in 1918. Featuring cars, motorcycles, commercial vehicles, trucks and road registered farm machinery – one each from the years 1918-2018 – it is believed that a motoring event of this scale has never before been attempted.

VACC Executive Director, Geoff Gwilym said that the VACC Centennial Cavalcade was a way of giving back to regional Victoria, and to the motoring community of Victoria, who for 100 years, have been the customers of VACC businesses.

“The VACC Centennial Cavalcade is a fitting tribute to VACC members, past and present; to VACC’s birthplace – Bendigo – and to Victorian motorists, without whom there would be no VACC members,” said Mr Gwilym.

“VACC was founded in Bendigo, where a group of far-sighted motor traders gathered together 100 years ago and decided that their future lay in collectivism. One hundred years later, over 5,000 VACC members agree: we are stronger together.”

Vehicles already confirmed for the VACC Centennial Cavalcade include the 1967 Aston Martin DBS Vantage used for the film On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, a 1918 Buick E644 Roadster, a Volkswagen Beetle prototype, a 1956 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spyder and several cars from the RACV Heritage Collection. 

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