Visit BMW Car Club of America Foundation Museum for just $5 with food donation

BMW Car Club of America Foundation Museum, at 190 Manatee Court, Greer, South Carolina, is partnering with Greer Community Ministries to help the hungry. 

Through March 27th, 2021, admission to the museum is just $5 if you bring a bag of non-perishable food as a donation. 

Normally adult admission is $12, and youth (age 6 to 17) admission is $6. Kids 5 and under are always admitted for free.

Read on for some information about the donation drive, the museum’s hours, and its current exhibit, “GENESIS: BMW From the Beginning.”

The museum is about an hour and a half from Charlotte.

All who enter the museum must wear a face mask. If you don’t have one, they will provide you with one.

Food Drive

To help those needing assistance, the BMW CCA Foundation Museum is partnering with the Greer Community Ministries. By bringing containerized food to the Museum, visitors will receive a heavily discounted admission and the food will go to a good cause – helping the hungry.

The Greer Community Ministries aids those needing food and clothing. They also run a Meals on Wheels service to over 350 homes daily. And they share their food with other food organizations to help those needing a hand.

GENESIS: BMW From The Beginning

GENESIS: BMW From the Beginning, Presented by The Werk Shop, exhibits twenty-four historically significant cars and motorcycles built by BMW from 1927 to 1965. All have been lovingly restored, and are owned and cared for by passionate enthusiasts.

With informative kiosks, an audio tour, and fascinating vintage photography, GENESIS begins during World War I, when BMW emerged as a maker of technically advanced airplane engines, through its expansion into motorcycle and automobile production in the 1920s.

The exhibit explores BMW’s incredible motorsport successes of the 1930s, its role in supplying the German military during World War II, and its rebirth as a peacetime mobility company in the 1950’s.

Produced with sponsorship from The Werk Shop, Classic BMW of Plano, Texas, CocoMats, and Yokohama Tires, GENESIS assembles the largest collection of pre- and early post-war BMWs ever seen in North America.

The automobiles on display are especially rare, and several are the only examples of their kind in the US.

Together, they take visitors through the astoundingly rapid development of BMW as a carmaker in the 1930s, when its race-winning roadsters gained world renown, through its postwar resurrection with the Baroque Angel sedans in the 1950s.

One of the cars you will see at the exhibit are the 1930 Dixi (pictured above), the oldest known BMW in the United States.

For more information and a preview of the exhibit, visit www.bmwccafoundation.org or telephone (864) 329-1919.

 

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