Check out our latest donation to the Museum. We got a MINI!!! Okay, it isn’t a real driving MINI, but it is a full-size fiberglass MINI from MINI of Charleston. This had been mounted on the wall in the dealership. Brad Davis rescued it after…

We would like to welcome you to the first issue of The Foundation Forum! We are launching this online newsletter to keep you up-to-date on all the events and activities of the Foundation, including the Library, Archives, and Museum, current and future exhibitions, the Ambassador…

The Miller Norburn #64 2002 driven by Nick Craw, owned by Scott Hughes, is featured in the July 2020 issue of Roundel magazine. This car had been part of the ICON exhibit in 2018. Check out the article here: Miller & Norburn 2002

Foundation Trustee Scott Hughes and wife, Fran, have been featured in the Summer edition of The Ultimate Classic magazine. See a preview here. Scott and Fran Hughes in The Ultimate Classic summer 2020 issue Get your copy and read about Scott and Fran and many…

Our friends at the BMW Classic Car Club of America have a nice preview article about some of the cars that you will see in the GENESIS: BMW From the Beginning exhibit. Check out the article here: Genesis in The Ultimate Classic – Spring 2020

Check out the GENESIS: BMW From the Beginning book review by David Lightfoot in the July 2020 issue of Roundel magazine. Roundel Magazine

Check out the GENESIS: BMW From the Beginning book review by David Lightfoot   in the Puget Sound chapter newsletter Zündfolge Quarter 3, 2020 issue. Click on the link below. Puget Sound Newsletter  

Our friends at Windy City BMW have published pictures in both the May and July issue of the Windy City BMW Breeze newsletter from the vehicles in the GENESIS exhibit. Check out the issue here (Cover page and page 4 for May and pages 10…

Street Survival driving tips for teens during social distancing was promoted on Autoweek.com recently. Check out the article at this link. Click Here

The GENESIS: BMW From the Beginning exhibit book by Jackie Jouret was reviewed on BMW Blog by Hugo Becker. Click here for the article.

Bill Wade, National Program Director of the Tire Rack Street Survival provides some useful tips you can teach your teen in the driveway. This was published on Automobile Magazine online over the Memorial Day weekend. Click here to see the article

Since our February 4th news posting about starting the HVAC installation, although it has been slow, progress has moved forward. Due to a tremendous amount of rain this winter, it did slow down the work outside considerably. The system is now installed and operational with…

The “PASSION – 50 Years of BMW Cars and Community” exhibition ended with a great celebration on January 11, 2020. Over 140 people chose to bid farewell to the array of 23 automobiles and memorabilia associated with BMW CCA members who have been paramount to…

The BMW CCA Foundation is delighted to announce that FCP Euro as the new Hospitality Sponsor for the Tire Rack Street Survival program. In 2020 FCP Euro will provide each Street Survival school with a meaningful subsidy to help offset the expenses for providing food…

If you’ve ever wondered where your money goes when donating to the BMW CCA Foundation, here’s one cool place. We are installing a brand new HVAC system for the Archive and Exhibition area! Thanks to generous donors, we are adding climate control to the exhibition…

In the summer of 2018 the BMW CCA Foundation hosted a birthday get together for Kurt Sposta, the project manager that lead the team building Plant Spartanburg.  Kurt invited several of his friends, including one Manfred Heller. Manfred, a longtime friend of Kurt and BMW…

At Oktoberfest 2019, this was the largest gathering of the Foundation Ambassadors at one event. The Foundation wanted to have a welcome dinner for these Ambassadors. For many, this was the first time to see the Foundation Museum as well as meet the Trustees and…

The BMW CCA Foundation Museum is a proud member of the National Association of Automobile Museums (NAAM). It’s a great network for automotive museums, and each year, select members of our staff attend a NAAM conference hosted by various automotive museums around the country. Being…

Our Tire Rack Street Survival sponsors, donors and volunteers know…in their core…that the program saves lives. And it all feels even more vital when we receive letters like the one below, from an Emergency Room physician… who also happens to be the father of five…

Your BMW CCA Foundation is a small nonprofit, with a big footprint. And we can’t do it without you. So we’re willing to give you some great collectibles when you donate…read on! Last year, good people like you made donations that enabled 2,300 teenagers to…

To those who don’t know me already, I’m an automotive journalist who first became Technical Editor of Road & Track magazine in 1965, then Engineering Editor, then Editor, then European Editor, then a freelancer trying to contribute what I could to R&T and other car…

Each year, our donors make it possible for nearly 3,000 teenage drivers – and their families- to benefit from high-level car control training that saves lives. Facilitating 110+ Tire Rack Street Survival clinics from coast to coast every year is hard- and vital- work. And…

We get a lot of fan mail for Street Survival that most folks never get to see.  We’ll be publishing some of these letters, so that everyone- our hard-working facilitators, our coaches, our cone-shaggers, our corporate sponsors, our donors and everyone else who make this…