Celebrating 70 Years of the BMW Car Club GB

Celebrating 70 Years of BMW Car Club GB

Throughout 2022 the BMW Car Club is celebrating its 70th anniversary, and we want you to get involved.

If you have any favourite memories or images of past Club events, or activities that you have enjoyed over the years, please email them to officeadmin@bmwcarclubgb.co.uk to be featured on these pages. You may wish to share some images from your favourite National Festival, or some words about the most memorable pub meet you have attended. Or maybe you like to put togther a few words to describe what you enjoy most about being a member of the BMW Car Club.

This issue, we’d like to share with you some history of the Club and how it all started. It’s quite incredible to think that when the Club was formed, the country welcomed its new Queen, a brand new Ford Consul would set you back £717, and BMW released the 501, their first model to be manufactured and sold after the Second World War.

We’ll now hand you over to a piece written by Peter Rust, the Club’s Vice President, which was featured in the 50th anniversary edition of Straight Six in 2002.

Founder of the BMW Car Club, the late R.J.T Hewitt (left)