The Saga of 2022 Continues

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Published: 19 June 2022

The Chapter rolls into the middle of summer with Northern Ohio as the featured marque at the Gervasi Vineyard's Wednesday night Cruise-In on July 13.  We're looking to continue our reputation of bringing lots of great cars for guests to review that night.  To get the details and learn how to nominate your vehicle for that featured brick drive to the pavilion click here.

Future events include a Hocking Hills Cars & Coffee meet-up with Buckeye Chapter and our annual fall brewery driving tour.

Of special note is the new North Central Regional event, Nordfest. The inaugural gathering of the chapters of the North Central Region will be hosted by North Star Chapter and take place in and around the Minneapolis area on the weekend of September 8-11.  For more information, click here.

To not miss out, check for later announcements on this web page, via the calendar to the left, and through email blasts to our members.  To get those emails, make certain your contact information is correct at BMWCCA's national web site, as only you can correct or change your information. To access your data, click here and follow the log-in directions.

In addition to our own events, we have highlighted in our left-column events calendar some events of interest from other chapters and organizations as well.

To see a list of all our currently finalized events, scroll to the top of this page, click Chapter Info, then scroll down to and click List All Calendar Events.

We're still planning more events and hope to see you in future months!

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.