The convoy set off from Waiau near Hamner Springs on Saturday, and had only one puncture along the way.
Wheels at Wanaka general manager Allan Dippie, who purchased and organised the transportation of the collection, said the hardest part was loading the machinery on to the trucks.
"It was a logistical exercise to load them as some of them were 18 to 20 tonne, but we had a really good team of mechanics and crane operators, [and] the trucks all ran beautifully - and some of the trucks are as old as the Caterpillars themselves.''
Most of the collection was originally from the Lindsay Willis Caterpillar Experience museum in Rotorua, which closed in 2013. The machinery was then purchased by Ben Gough and Gina Satterthwaite, grandchildren of Tracy Gough, one of the founders of Gough Gough and Hamer.
Mr Dippie said he heard about the collection "through the grapevine'' and thought it would make a great addition to the vintage tractors and earth moving equipment already in his collection.
He said about half of the Caterpillars were in working order, almost half would need a bit of "tickling to get going'' and a few of them would need restoration.
However, they had until the next Wheels at Wanaka show Easter 2021 to get them going, he said.
