The streets of Lismore and the Northern Rivers will be lined with vintage and veteran cars over the next four days as the Northern Rivers Vintage and Veteran Car Club celebrates its 60th-year of celebrations.

Sixty-six cars began to arrive at the Lismore Showgrounds in various forms of transport, such as on the back of a trailer or inside a converted caravan, with many of the travelling clubs members camping at the showgrounds.

The Northern Rivers Vintage and Veteran Car Club rally will be in full swing today as members hit the road to Coraki for morning tea and Evans Head for lunch.

Today was registration day as old friends caught up, and the cars were prepared for tomorrow's first outing. Club members spent their first night together at the East Lismore Bowling Club.

Lismore's first up-close look at the vintage and veteran cars will be on Friday morning at John Crowther car park (Dawson and Woodlark Street) from 8:30am to 11am when the rally takes members to Summerland House Farm in Alstonville.

The next opportunity will be at the Lismore Farmers Markets on Saturday morning at the showground between 8:30am and 10am before the cars make their way to Ballina via the scenic route for the vintage cars and an easier flatter run for the veteran cars.

Fifty-three per cent of the cars are pre-1930 and include a 1909 Renault, a 1913 Morris Oxford and a Ford Model T and A.

Local veteran car enthusiast and club member Robert Lovell said that Henry Ford was building cars in 1986, and it was the Model T that made cars for the people, whereas other manufacturers were making them for the rich. He was the man to start the production line to keep costs down, making them more affordable. Henry Ford sold over 15 million Model T Ford's, with more than half of the registered cars in America being a Model T in the early 1920s.

Stuart Cornford brought his 1911 Model T to Lismore from Toowoomba. Stuart often comes down to visit an old friend in Goonellabah but this time brought his prized possession.

For those that like a car from the vintage era, post-1930, there will be Buicks, Ford Mustangs, Mini Coopers and Holdens.

Give the drivers a wave as they pass by in the next four days as the Northern Rivers Vintage and Veteran Car Club brings some old-world charm to Lismore.