Sat, Apr 12, 2014

Oregon Chapter LeMay ACM Tour

LeMay - America's Car Museum

About this event

Join us as we tour the LeMay - America's Car Museum in Tacoma, Washington. Reopened in June 2012, the LeMay ACM is one of the world's largest auto museums. See www.bmworegoncca.com/calendar for details.

From the museum website:

LeMay – America's Car Museum (ACM) spotlights America's love affair with the automobile.  Featuring a nine-acre campus – with a four-story museum as the centerpiece – ACM, situated atop Tacoma, Wash., 30 minutes south of Seattle and in the shadow of Mt. Rainier, is one of the world's largest auto museums and attractions when it opened in June 2012.

ACM is designed to preserve history and celebrate the world's automotive culture.  The spacious facility houses up to 350 cars, trucks and motorcycles from private owners, corporations, and the LeMay collection, which amassed a Guinness Book record of more than 3,500 vehicles in the mid-'90s.

"Everybody remembers their first car, family driving vacations, a sports car they fell in love with as a teenager," says ACM CEO David Madeira. "Personal experiences with cars are at the heart of the American experience, and we're going to showcase more than a century of automotive lifestyle and history as well as the future of transportation."

 

We will meet in Portland and head to the Tacoma museum as a group, so please come with enough fuel for a 140-mile drive, one-way. Halfway fuel stop at Love's Truck Stop in Napavine, WA.
Starting Location:
  The Portlander Inn - Jubitz Cascade Grill Parking Lot
  10350 N Vancouver Way
  Portland, OR 97217
  http://www.portlanderinn.com
Time: 8:00 AM

 

We plan to hold a driver's meeting at 8:30 AM and leave from the Jubitz Travel Center at 8:45 AM. Those wishing to have breakfast, coffee, and conversation can gather earlier. Cascade Grill is open 24 hours a day.

LeMay ACM entry fee is $10.50/person at group rate, or $14.70/person if we have less than 10 people on our tour. Once inside, the museum also features a racing simulator ($8) and a slot car track ($3).

Event requirements

Our CCA club insurance requires all drivers to be BMW CCA members, Guests may join in the ride as passengers and we can invite first time nonmember drivers to join in and experience the fun of the BMW Oregon CCA., All participants must sign our insurance waiver before the road trip begins.

Entries (14)

JB
Joe Brumbaugh
NP
Nancy Piazzese
SW
Scott Welch
CP
Cory Piazzese
SH
Scott Huck
CL
Corina Lagravinese
AL
Andrew Lagravinese
GL
Guy Lee

LeMay - America's Car Museum

Tacoma, WA

Organizer

Fun Run/Tour organized by

BMW CCA - Oregon Chapter

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