Below is a a brief description of the classes of historic vehicles represented by Australian Historic Motoring Federation Inc (AHMF).
AHMF determined a naming convention for vehicles of different ages that make up the old vehicle movement. There are 4 vehicle classes, while the historic class is sub-divided into each decade, up to 25 years old.
These are vehicles manufactured up to 31st December 1918.
These vehicles generally had:
Typical vehicles from the Veteran era are pictured here.
These are vehicles manufactured from January 1st 1919 up to and including December 31st 1930.
These vehicles generally had:
Typical vehicles from the Vintage era are pictured here.
These are vehicles manufactured from January 1st 1931 up to and including December 31st 1949.
These vehicles generally had:
Typical vehicles from the Post-Vintage era are pictured here.
Any vehicle manufactured in the decades of the 1950's, 1960's, 1970's. etc up to 25 years old.
Australian-made Holden were available in the 1950's, although British and American vehicles were still prevalent. By the 1960's most of the vehicles sold were Australian-made; Holden & Ford Falcons were the most popular. BMC was building vehicles in Sydney while some British cars were assembled in Victoria and South Australia. American vehicles were being imported with some still assembled in Australia. Japanese vehicles were starting to arrive in larger numbers.
By the 1970's, Japanese companies had started building vehicles in Australia, British vehicles were fading from the market and European vehicles were imported in larger numbers.