48th Historic Winton Displays: Show me a Van, Man!
MEDIA RELEASE 17/3/2025
Historic Winton presented by the Austin 7 Club Inc
24th & 25th May 2024, Winton Motor Raceway, near Benalla
Major Sponsor: Shannons
Vans, vans and more vans are expected to be on display at the 48th Historic Winton amongst a huge array of heritage transportation.
“With the anniversaries of the VW Kombi and the Holden Panel Van being celebrated, we are inviting as many of them as possible,” Historic Winton event coordinator, John Kessner said. “So, this has inspired us to attract as many different types of vans too: Samba vans, 60s Hippie Vans, Bedford, Morris, Austin 7, Austin A30 and Austin A40 vans. All are invited!”
The 48th Historic Winton, to be held on 24th and 25th May 2025 at Winton Motor Raceway, always showcases paddocks-full of displays and well as two-days of historic racing.
These will feature alongside anniversary displays in the Shannons Car Park and other pride-of-place vehicles.
Relevant owners who are interested in displaying their vehicle must emails
John Kessner said that the Australian Motor Heritage Foundation’s 2024 Economic Value Study revealed that there are 970,000 historic vehicles in Australia with $10,240 spent per vehicle per year.
“The economic impact creates tens of thousands of jobs and extrapolates to billions of dollars circulating through the economy, so the impact of what we do here and of the entire historic car movement is significant,” he said.
Along with vans, the Heritage displays will include emergency vehicles, trucks, motorcycles and anything unusual that’s on wheels.
“Additionally, anyone with a quirky or fun vehicle is welcome to get in touch to obtain free entry for the driver for the weekend,” John Kessner said.
“In past years, we’ve had an antique French fire engine, an old movie fan van, stunning retro caravans, Clipper buses, spruced up semi-trailers and even an old ute with an enormous, fake bomb on the back like in the Road Runner cartoons,” Historic Winton event director, John Kessner said.
The organisers, the Austin 7 Club, will invite favourites to join the parade laps on track.
“Concourse quality vehicles through to rusty relics are all welcome,” he said. “These novel vehicles add to the fun of the event and are a great showcase of the vast amount of work that people put into their hobby vehicles in Victoria and around Australia.”
The full list of anniversary display vehicles can be found here.
Presented by the Austin 7 Club, Historic Winton is well known as being Australia’s most popular historic race event showcasing racing cars from the very beginning (more than 100 years ago) to the mid-1980s.
Preceding Historic Winton is the Benalla Historic Vehicle Tour on Friday, 23rd May. Motoring enthusiasts tour the rich and varied sights of Benalla and surrounds. All historic register vehicles are invited to enjoy this fun day and then stay on for Historic Winton. To add to the fun, Austin 7 Club, “President’s Choice” trophies are awarded to Tour participants with ‘stand out’ vehicles. More details about the Benalla Historic Vehicle Tour can be found here.
Shannons - Major Sponsor
