Club permits across regional Victoria

Each page below carries the same statewide rules plus the things that actually change by location: which VicRoads office takes your application and where it is, which licensed vehicle testers the official register lists nearby, and which clubs already operate in the district.

• Club permit in Melbourne (Greater Melbourne) — Thirty-one local government areas and just under ten thousand square kilometres sit behind the single word Melbourne, which is why almost nothing practical about a club permit here is answered by the word itself.
• Club permit in Geelong (Barwon and the Bellarine) — Geelong has more people searching for a club permit than any regional centre in Victoria, and more local clubs competing to sign the form.
• Club permit in Ballarat (Central Highlands) — Cold is the local variable that actually changes how a hobby car is owned here.
• Club permit in Bendigo (Loddon Campaspe) — Twice a year the old-car world comes to this city instead of the other way round.
• Club permit in Shepparton (Goulburn Valley) — Three waterways meet here, and the Goulburn has been over its banks in the Shepparton, Mooroopna and Murchison areas in 1974, 1993, 2010–12 and again in October 2022.
• Club permit in Mildura (Sunraysia) — Adelaide is the closer capital from here — 399 kilometres against 545 to Melbourne — and that single fact reorganises everything about a club permit.
• Club permit in Traralgon (Latrobe Valley, Gippsland) — Three valley towns sit in a row along the Princes Highway — Moe, Morwell and Traralgon — and Traralgon is the largest of them, with an urban population of 26,907 at the 2021 Census.
• Club permit in the Mornington Peninsula (Port Phillip and Western Port) — Water on three sides is the defining fact for anyone garaging an old car here: Port Phillip to the west, Western Port to the east, Bass Strait to the south, and roughly 190 kilometres of coastline between them.
• Club permit in Warrnambool (Shipwreck Coast and the Western District) — The Great Ocean Road does not finish at the Twelve Apostles.
• Club permit in Wodonga (The Murray border and Victoria’s north-east) — The state line here does not run down the middle of the river.
• Club permit in Horsham (Wimmera and the Grampians) — Three hundred kilometres of Western Highway sit between Horsham and Melbourne, and that number decides almost everything about keeping an old vehicle here — where it gets inspected, who signs for it, and how long a club run takes.
• Club permit in Sale (Wellington Shire, Gippsland) — Wellington Shire’s council seat sits 212 kilometres east of Melbourne, at the point where the Princes Highway meets the north-eastern end of the South Gippsland Highway; the elm-lined stretch of highway through the middle of the city is King George V Avenue.