Shannon's Tamworth Motor Show: Tamworth car enthusiasts get ready to show off their isolation labour of love

Tamworth residents will get a chance to see the vintage vehicles at their first ever public display this weekend during Tamworth's 10^th Shannon's Tamworth Motor Show.

Co-organiser Neville Evans is looking forward to the event's famous "unveils" at its central display. None of the cars to be revealed have ever been shown in public before; you get one Tamworth motor show and that's it, he said.

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"Because people have been locked down for a couple of months, they've been working on restoring of their cars. They're building or restoring, they've got them done," he said.

He said many of the cars have had a "total restoration" from scratch - mechanics, interior, paint, everything.

"It can take three or four years, it can take 30 years. It depends on how the money that lasts and how keen the person is to get it done. We have one coming from down in Singleton that has been I think 15 years in the build. It's finally finished and it's coming for an unveil on Saturday morning at 10," he said.

Local restorers are set to be joined by hundreds more from across the region and the state.

The Tamworth event is the state's only ongoing annual indoor motor show, and one of just two in the country.

Mr Evans It should be a pretty big one, estimating that about 3000 people will turn up to the event, more than their ordinary 2500.

This year's central display is Australian-made Fords and the event is set to feature former race driver Kevin "KB" Bartlett as a special guest.

The event is the major fundraiser for Tamworth West Rotary club, with the money going to local charities and the enormous international effort to end polio. Organisers expect to fundraise over $20,000 in just two days.

The event will take place at the TREC on the weekend of May 22 and 23. Doors open at 9 with the big reveals to take place from 10 to 11.

Mr Evans said it will be a huge volunteering effort, with somewhere between 80 and 100 shifts involved in the weekend.

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Incoming Rotary West President Henry Melssen said the club is looking forward to marking their 10^th anniversary.

"Apart from the event being a great thing for the public, it's become a social event for people to go to but it's also a great thing for the the restorers, a lot of the guys that do restorations, it gets them together' he said.

The first motor show was held in 2010, but the event was cancelled last year due to the coronavirus crisis.

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