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BMW
CCA FYIs
As you probably remember, our membership voted in April to merge our Club (BMW ACA, Puget Sound Region) with the national BMW Car Club of America (CCA). The date of the merger is November 1st. As of that date, we will become a chapter of the national club. This means a number of administrative matters will be handled by the CCA national office rather than locally.
Those of you with November CCA membership renewals should already be receiving your reminder from CCA. They have a provision for a yearly automatic renewal if you give them a credit card number. That is a great time saver!
Those of you with September or October membership renewals from ACA please remember that in order to renew at the old $25 rate, you must have your check to us by October 31st. After that date you will need to send a check to CCA for $35 to renew with them, so renew early to avoid confusion!
If all goes as planned you will be receiving the November Roundel, the CCA's fine national magazine, in the first few days of November. If you don't receive it in that time frame that is your first indication that your mailing address may not be correct back at CCA National. They are presently inputting into their database by hand all of our ACA mailing address information. A couple of typos are bound to happen. Please by patient and understanding.
We will be combining the November and December issues of Zündfolge again this year, so expect to see it around mid-November. This will be the first month we will be using the mailing addresses provided to us from CCA National. We are bound to have a few more lingering typos as we fine tune the information at National. If you have not seen your Zündfolge by late November please let us know.
Starting in November the membership cards will be issued by CCA National. If you need a replacement card you will have to contact them. Their information will be listed in the Zündfolge.
If you have one of our postcard sized "comp cards" floating around, either get it to a BMW owner ASAP so they can join before November 1 (to save $10) or throw it away. We will be pulling the cards from the displays in the local businesses and putting out the CCA equivalent to our comp card. It is a tri-fold brochure. We will all learn to call it affectionately the "Tri-Fold." CCA prints these up for all 63 chapters to use for membership recruitment. CCA National prints up a couple hundred thousand at a time. To our Canadian members, if you get re-assigned as a CCA member to some chapter in the Midwest but wish to remain affiliated with our chapter please be sure to let CCA National know your preference.
I'll have some additional CCA FYIs next month, thanks for reading!
BMW ACA/CCA Timeline & Histroy
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