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A child meeting an exotic car through the Ride of Your Life Foundation

Making dreams come true
with the power of automobiles.

Two things under one roof. A foundation that gives children facing serious illness a day they will never forget, and a defensive driving school that sends teenagers out onto the road better prepared than we were.

Raleigh, North Carolina · 501(c)(3)

$95 per student 6 hours over two days 501(c)(3) non-profit Raleigh Research Triangle

What we do

One foundation,
three ways in.

DDS Defensive Driving School

Teen Defensive Driving School

Three hours in the classroom and three hours behind the wheel, taught by active firefighters, police officers and EMS drivers who have spent their careers on the roads your teenager is about to drive. $95 per student.

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Ride of Your Life Foundation

Ride of Your Life

A North Carolina nonprofit, operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes under Section 501(c)(3). For a child in treatment, that means a day surrounded by the cars they have only seen in posters — and the people who own them. Every course fee and every donation goes toward making another one of those days happen.

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Ride of Your Life Academy

Ride of Your Life Academy

The educational side of the foundation. We work with the Scouts of America, the YMCA, The Governor Morehead School for the Blind and the Carolina Exotic Car Club, using automobiles to teach and to open a door. Scholarships and community grants sit here too, so cost is never the reason a young person misses out.

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Part of the same family

Carolina Exotic Car Club

Our courses are held on the club campus at 3107 Glen Royal Road, and its members are the ones who bring the cars on a Ride of Your Life day. The club is a private club, an event center, a storage facility and a consignment center in its own right.

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