Parkes Antique Motor Museum

The Parkes Antique Motor Museum lives in the Henry Parkes Centre complex on the Newell Highway, staffed and stocked by the Parkes Antique Motor Club: up to 24 cars and a dozen motorcycles at a time, owned by members and friends and rotated through the gallery so the floor keeps changing.

The veterans carry the weight: a 1908 NAG Puck, a 1914 Alldays & Onions that is one of only three known in Australia, and a restored 1940 Holden bodied Oldsmobile convertible, with guests as unlikely as an ex Paris Motor Show 1986 Jaguar XJ6 on loan from the UK.

The ticket is shared with the King's Castle Elvis exhibit (this is Australia's Elvis festival town), and the complex adds the Henry Parkes Museum, a 45 tractor antique machinery collection and the visitor information centre. It is the natural Newell Highway leg stretch.

A rotating club collection inside a multi attraction highway complex.

Look out for:

• The 1908 NAG Puck and the 1914 Alldays & Onions, one of three known in Australia.

• The restored 1940 Holden bodied Oldsmobile convertible.

• Up to 24 cars and 12 motorcycles, rotated by the Parkes Antique Motor Club.

• The King's Castle Elvis exhibit on the same ticket.

• The wider Henry Parkes Centre: the Henry Parkes Museum, 45 tractors and 10,000 plus items in the machinery collection.

Best way to experience it: treat it as the Newell Highway break: motor museum and Elvis on one ticket, the machinery sheds if time allows, and the visitor centre for the Dish and town tips.

• Open Monday to Friday 9am to 4pm, weekends 10am to 3pm; closed Christmas Day, Australia Day, Good Friday, Anzac Day and the King's Birthday.

• Entry is a combined ticket with the King's Castle Elvis exhibit: $14 adult, $12 concession, $8 child, $35 family. The Henry Parkes Museum and machinery collection are ticketed separately.

• Displays rotate, so the floor changes between visits.

• Car and coach parking, picnic area and wheelchair access at the Henry Parkes Centre; phone 1800 624 365 (visitor centre).

Last updated: 3 September 2026