Spring into 2025

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Published: 13 January 2025

The Chapter starts off 2025 with a two-part go-kart series and some special visits in the spring.

The go-kart series takes place in January and February.  Consider coming out to test your skills on the indoor track and spend some time checking out the other amusements at High Voltage and the Foundary in Medina.  Use the left-side links to go to each individual event for details.

We've secured special tours of at Western Reserve Historical Society's two facilities later in the spring.  The Chapter is hosting its members for a docent-led tour of the Wild Horses:  Sixty Years of Ford's Mustang exhibit at the Crawford Museum in March and a private tour of their restoration facility for early April. Again, check the left-side links for details and registration requirements.

As well, WE NEED YOU!  If you're experienced in instructing (or want to be) we could use you at our co-hosted Street Survival event on May 4th at Champion High School (northwest of Warren).  This one-day event gives young drivers much needed information to keep them (and others on the road) around them safe.  Check the left-side schedule for more details.

Origins of Northern Ohio Chapter

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Published: 09 October 2016

When early BMW Car Club of America members joined the national organization in the mid-1970s, they became members of a local entity which was rather unique at the time. While most chapters were located around metropolitan areas, Ohio had one of the first—if not the first—statewide chapter, Buckeye.

After attending meetings and events in the Columbus area for a time, our lifetime member John Franklin contacted members in Cleveland, Akron, and other northeastern Ohio areas and created the Cleveland/Akron Area to have more localized events and management. At approximately the same time, members in the Cincinnati region also organized regionally as an Area within Buckeye.

Cleveland/Akron monthly meetings initially were held at the Franklin home and later in area restaurants. To pull members from Cleveland’s western suburbs, later meetings were held at the Elegant Hog—the current location of the Windham Hotel.

In the early 1980s, the Columbus Area turned over management of Buckeye Chapter to the Cleveland/Akron Area.  In the late 1980s-early 1990s, the Cincinnati Area became the managing force for Buckeye.

After Buckeye Chapter hosted their first BMWCCA OktoberFest, members of the Cleveland/Akron Area requested secession from Buckeye Chapter. The intention was to concentrate activities and governance in a more localized area, believing this would better serve local members. This request for secession was one of the first of its type for the national organization.

In late fall 1991 with agreement from the remaining Areas of Buckeye Chapter, Northern Ohio Chapter was formed, encompassing Ohio postal zip codes from 44000 to 44999, which corresponds to the northeastern quadrant of the state. The general territorial area covers from Castalia-Sandusky to Galion-Mansfield to Dover-New Philadelphia over to the Pennsylvania border and northward to the shores of Lake Erie.