Longwarry Heritage Truck Show celebrates its eighth year

The Longwarry Heritage Truck Show was held in Longwarry, Victoria last weekend celebrating working trucks of all makes and models.

The annual event, held as a fundraiser for the local football and netball club, now hosts up to 250 trucks and stationary engines, ranging in age from 25 years to nearly 100.

Hosted by the Trafalgar Truck Restorers Club the display boasts a number of vehicles from the Gippsland district, as well as others purchased by locals for the purposes of restoration.

Organiser Peter Farley says the event is a great opportunity to reminisce about working vehicles that have played a part in the history of the area.

“It is a way for people to display their pride and joys and bring back memories for visitors,” he said.

Visiting the display this weekend, trucksales.com.au discovered a diverse range of machinery dating back to the early 1900s. A small Dodge ranked as one of the only vehicles on the oval registered continuously for 74 years, one the oldest vehicles still regularly driven.

The display included heavy machinery too, including an early Euclid tipper as well as familiar prime movers, some faithfully restored with authentic trailers in vintage livery.

Logging and freight trucks were joined by smaller general cartage rigids and utes dating back to the 1920s. American and British machinery proved a staple of this year’s event, the presence of locally-built Dodge and International models another highlight.

Now in its eighth year the Longwarry Heritage Truck Display will continue as an annual event on the local calendar. The 2021 event is slated for the first weekend in February.