SAVE THE DATE Annual NJ Chapter Pick Your Pumpkin Rally to Benefit NORWESCAP

Oct. 26, 2025

Come join us for the NJ chapter's annual Fall Pick Your Pumpkin Rally. Come out and have a great time roaming scenic back roads of New Jersey while cursing the Rallymaster's ridiculous clues. In what has become a new tradition of the NJ Chapter, the rally is being run as a charity event to benefit NORWESCAP - an organization dedicated to helping low income families in northwest New Jersey through a variety of services including a food bank and nutrition assistance.

Clues and final route are still being finalized so check back here for updates.

For those of you who are new to the rally, the format is that cars are released onto the route at intervals. You are given a list of route instructions and clues/questions to answer along the way. The car with the highest score in each class wins with ties determined by time. Cars with a driver and navigator may enter the Competition Class (counts toward the chapter Driver Champ Series) or the Family Class and cars with 3 or more people are in Family Class. This is all for fun - we hope to have some prizes that are provided by the club (and maybe a dealer or two) but come out for the drive along roads that you may not have driven before and the chance to get together with fellow club members. This is one of the few club events with driving involved that both children and non-members are welcome.

Starting Point:
Panera Bread - Raritan (in the Staples shopping center off the Somerville Circle)
300 Route 22
Raritan, NJ 08869

Registration on-site opens: 8:15 am
Drivers' meeting: 9:00 am
First car off: 9:15 am sharp

Ending Point: Longhorn Steakhouse
138 Highway 31
Flemington, NJ 08822
We are announcing the end point this year so that anyone who can't do the rally but wants to join us for food and laughs can do so.

Cars will be released in order of registration date/time so register early if you want to be among the first cars sent out!

Cost: $25 per car (collected at the event, exact change much appreciated [we collect payment info during registration only in case you are unable to pay at the event]) - larger donations accepted with gratitude- all net proceeds donated to NORWESCAP. There must be one BMW CCA member in the car who is the registrant. Guests are not required to be members.

You may register on-site on the day of the event if this is a last-minute decision to participate - all are welcome but each car must have at least one Club member.