Around these parts ,there's a theater that raffles a restored vette and a harley each year as a fund raiser. Twenty bucks a ticket, buying them forever,no luck so far. Did win a ballon tire bicycle at the local carnival when I was 11 years old,rode it home proud as a pea**** only to have it disapear from the garage that night, swore to God the carny people followed me home and stole it back to give away at the next town.
I won a Schwinn Stingray bike when I was a kid. It was the 80's so the bike was a re-make edition and carried a big sticker price. They put my picture in the paper and gave me the bike (St. Jude's Bike-a-thon, raised the most money). The thing was ugly as hell with red and yellow paint, bannana seat, etc. This was the 80's so everyone else had light-weight BMX bikes. I didn't get another bike for years, cause i had a brand new schwinn!
My parents won a brand spanking new 57 Chevy 2 door in a church raffle. Dad said it was the cheapest most basic model that didn't even have a radio or heater. Sold it right away and Mom kept driving the 52 Ford 4 door they had up into the mid 70's. A high school buddy won a new Buick in the late 70's, sold it right away and used the money toward a new Harley. I haven't won a car YET, but I keep trying. Lots of good causes have raffles and you can follow up on their website to see who won. There is a historical society in Illinois that raffles an early Ford off each year and they actually send out postcards afterwards with the winners picture on it.
.......Not lucky on raffles.......Not lucky on Love.....Not lucky on cars.....Guess the only thing I'am lucky on is losing.....
Sure have bought enough of those damn tickets hoping to one day win one....still waiting....gotta play to win.
There was a guy on Long Island in the 80's that had a car show every month and if you entered the show you were entered in the end of the year drawing for a car and some other stuff.You had to be at the last show to claim your prize.They drew my name for the aluminum car trailer and as you probably guessed I was not there.The same thing happened to a friend of mine at I think Lead East years ago.His name was called to win a T-bucket just after he left the show.The same luck as me.
My brother-in law won a Alloway "Speedstar" at the "Shades of the past in 2005.....Appraised at $125,000.00
Back in the late 1960s at Ascot Park Gardena I was always winning the Bingo games from numbers based on the figure-8 cars finishing order and I would walk up into the press box to get a can of STP oil or gas treatment or some similar canned additive. I was about 14 years old so I gave the product to the family car-a 1969 2-door Chevy Malibu.
Each vehicle giveaway seems to do things a little different. Some ***ess value on just the parts vs. entire cars. Some cover the taxes, some make you pay the taxes. Some provide ***le for the car (if it is kit or special construction) some don't (make ***ling a nightmare!).
Some buds and I made a 'rod run' out of the annual Calif Golden State Controline Championships in '80. We parked our rods in front of the vendors' tents, at Del Mar High School... I never win raffles, but the hosting model airplane club was raffling off some nice kits, engines, and building materials... I opted for 20 One dollar tickets, had a great time watching Team Race & Combat matches, then ended up winning a Sig Super Chipmunk kit and a Fox .40 engine! Cool. Built the Chipmunk, flew it for a few years, then gave it to a young kid just starting out in the hobby. Should have seen his eyes. Worth every hour I had in painting it!
My little brother won a lowrider bicycle from a lowrider club raffle that was at hot august nights one year in reno. He only bought one ticket. When the guys showed up to deliver the bike they had it on the back seat of a 64 impala vert. They said they sold a ton of tickets so to win with only buying one was really lucky.
I won a new Pontiac in about 1983, on a Girls softball league Raffle, But they didn't sell enough tickets so I got $1,000.00 in cash.
^^^^^^^^^^Read this outloud to yourself. Tell me how it sounds? Only one prize, then the rest of the tickets mean nothing
I've got a buddy who won a brand new dressed out Harley a few years ago that lives here in Bowling Green. He still has it and rides the hell out of it. It's pretty funny because he treats it as normal transportation and doesn't keep it clean, polished, or even inside that I know of. He's a local elementary school music teacher and I believe he won it through some sort of school raffle/fund raiser.
My daughter and i attended Barrett Jackson auction 2009 on a couple of free tickets. We both entered a free drawing to win a FREE weeks use of a 60' houseboat and a 20' speedboat for 12 people at Lake Powell. She calls me up a month later, SHE WON! We spent a week on Lake Powell in September 2009. An $8,000 value. What a Great time to remember!!!!!!! John I never really thought they gave those away for real, but they do!
OT, but it's all I got. 3 years ago, guy sitting right in front of me at the Notre Dame vs Michigan State football game (in East Lansing) won the 50/50 raffle, put on by the coaches club. $17,000 and change. He was jumping up and down and almost fell down the ****ing stairs, from 43 rows up. Laughed about that for a while, then realized I was going home with less money than I showed up with and he was probably on his way to buy a new car, or something.
About ten years ago my son and I went to the Goodguys Show in Puyallup, WA and checked out the PPG paint tent. At the time they were having a kids coloring contest (my son was about eight). The kids were given a blank picture of a '40 Ford and told to go crazy coloring. I must say, my son pulled off some killer flames on his picture,and handed it in. He asked me, "Do you think I will win?" I said that there are a lot of kids here and chances are slim. About two weeks later in the mail comes a check for $100.00, a plaque and a personal letter from someone in the customer service department saying how cool the winning picture was. A smile comes to his face to this day when the topic comes up. Those positive words led to a p***ion for all that is art. You go boy!!!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but NSRA only gives away 1 car every year and that is at the Nationals. They give away some type of Chevy truck at the other meets.
Local Louisville, Ky. upholster Larry Sneed had his entry number called at the Nationals a few years ago. He goes running down to claim the car. They take him on the golf cart to see his car and ***le. Turns out 2 years earlier he put his car in his Dad's name so his wife couldn't go after it in the divorce. He never changed it back. He lost out on the car. Don't know if he ran right out and ***led it the next week or not.
In 1968, my nieghbor won a brand new 1968 Camaro --> 250/6 w/column shift Torque-Drive transmission. ****ernut yellow w/hockey stripe and black interior. AM radio.
This begs the question...would the HAMB be the perfect place to have a raffle for a rod of some kind? As a fund raiser? Has it ever been done? I know we have the auctions and such. I'd buy a few tickets for sure. Maybe the winner could pick it up at the HAMB Drags. Just wondering...
I remember my dad won a brand new 85 Thunderbird! It was in a raffle at a local garage. I know why they were willing to give it away since they got so much business from that one piece of **** car.
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