My 1969 Chevrolet Camaro

His love of colour and painting on vehicles has since taken him to great heights ranging from a multitude of street machines to royal carriages for the Queen. Today he will unveil his latest creation, exclusively revealed here in Carsguide today, a 1969 Chev Camaro that finally achieves his ultimate dream.

"Ever since I was 17 I've always wanted a candy-apple red car... and now I've got one," he says. But it's not just any red machine. There's 15 coats of paint on it, a silver base topped with a red transparent dye creating an exquisite depth of colour rarely seen on a car. "It looks like a toffee apple," he says.

Webb's Camaro is one of eight never-before seen cars and three custom bikes to be unveiled at the 10th annual MotorEx show at the Sydney Showgrounds at Homebush Bay this morning (Saturday).

The 11 inauguration vehicles, the ultimate in custom machine presentation in Australia, headline a show featuring more than 400 cars ranging from the Meguiars superstars (65 custom show cars) to the street elite (custom cars that can be driven on the road) to muscle cars, classics and bikes.

Webb is the show organiser, a key judge of the various categories, and the bloke who came up with the whole idea years ago. He says the inauguration cars at this year's show are top shelf.

"I would think this year will be the best. There's quite a variety of hot rods, street machines and hi-tech tuners."

This year's show features many past winners of the various categories, returning for the first time to mark the 10th anniversary. Normally the winners are not allowed to re-enter. For many of the exhibitors and thousands of car fans at the show over this weekend it's all about the cars.

But Webb says the paint job is just as vital as the machine. So much so that he says he could make the most humble of cars sexy with the right paint job. When he bought his Camaro three years ago it was halfway through restoration project. But Webb cast all that aside and stripped it back to bare metal to begin his work.

"It is all about the preparation," he says. He applied four coats of silver, six coats of red and three coats of clear before it was rubbed down and then a final two coats of clear to his Camaro. Underneath the car it's a more practical Satin Galaxy Grey colour as he may drive it after the show.

Webb started his career as an apprentice spray painter in Bowral at 17. Since then he has created many masterpieces. "That's been my life, the paint," he says. Back in the 1980s he painted the royal carriage presented to the Queen by Australia to mark the occasion of the Australian Bicentennial in royal claret and black. He is working on a similiar project now.

The Camaro is his fifth elite level show car and he still owns three of them. Over the past 35 years he has been involved in painting hundreds of cars. He also helps apprentices and people new to the work by assisting at TAFE. As Australia's top show car judge he travels Australia and overseas to judge at various car shows.

This year's MotorEx show is bigger than before, taking up much more room across the Showgrounds. Apart from the rows of chrome and polish there's also the Shannon's classic car and memorabilia auction at the show tomorrow afternoon and a freestyle motocross show.