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Welcome to the Michiana Chapter of the BMW Car Club of America! Our chapter serves Michiana Chapter BMW CCAmembers in western lower Michigan and northern Indiana.

Our purpose as a chapter is rather simple... to promote interest in motoring; to organize and conduct touring activities; to encourage safe and skillful driving; to offer classes, disseminate information, produce various publications, and generally promote activities related to motor touring. Our vehicles of choice are made by BMW. And we have a good deal of fun along the way!

If you are not currently a BMW CCA member, please consider joining, whether or not you own or drive a BMW. (But if you do decide a Bimmer would look good in your driveway, we can even help you find a nearby dealer!)

Your comments and suggestions are always welcomed... as is your participation in any of our activities.

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2007 Fall Color Tour Report.

 

Wow!!! What an incredible event. The turn out for this years color tour was unbelieveable !! Over 90 people and something like 45 cars showed up. We had quite a diverse array of models present as well, new and old 3ers, 5ers 6ers and a dozen or so m-cars. The rows of BMWs looked like a big event you read about in Roundel, it must have been quite a sight for onlookers to see all the BMWS assembled together.
 
Many people asked how I came up with the route. It was easy really. I knew that Kent County had three covered bridges that were relatively close and I wanted to make that my theme. It was just a matter of finding scenic roads to link them up. The idea for using the apple orchard as a starting point came from last years color tour where we visited one and it went over well. Robinettes also had a very ideal location to start from. I got the idea of visiting Grattan Raceway from a previous event where we all met at Gingerman. I knew Grattan was in the area and I asked Steve Adsmond a fellow club member if he could help me out with this. For awhile it looked like we were not going to be able to do it but Steve’s persistence paid off and we were able to work it into the tour. I think that was probably the highlight of the event as we were able to go single file at a speed deemed "as comfortable yet prudent as you like" Like many I have never had my bimmer on a track before and what a great track. I now have inclinations to do some driving schools where I might get to do some laps at speed.  I picked Bostwick Lake Inn as our restaurant as it was also in the area and I had heard good things about it. They were very accomodating to a party of our size and I appreciated that. I also want to thank Bob Colburn for his help with this project. He directed me to the proper channels for getting the newsletter out, the website updated and getting deposit money to the restaurant and I thank all those people as well. And I thank everyone that came, you all coming was the reason it was so successful. What a great chapter we have and here’s to many more great events.
 
Matt Westgate event planner

.BMW CCA National


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