Hey Folks, Just wondering, have you or do you know of anyone who has ever won a car from a "raffle"? In all the mags there's tons of ads for buying raffle tickets. I got suckered and bought a ticket at the GoodGuys show, $20 for 1 ticket. The ticket lots can go for a lot of money, so I thought I'd throw the question out there......
A couple of years ago, a community group in Kansas City raffled off a nice '55 F-100. I bought a ticket for $10. I didn't win, but the guy who did win drives the shit out of the thing; we see it at all the local shows.
A friend of mine won a '55 Chevy a few years ago from a Church raffle. The odds were pretty good as the tickets were $100 a pop. He was drunk and bought two...
A local guy won one of the give-away cars at I think NSRA York, could have been some other show tough, a few years ago. Still see the car but he doesn't own it. Bill
Years ago we were asked to donate a cosmetic restoration on any winning vehicle for a charity. The guy who won had a '66 F100. It was a little rough but we gave it our best. He only bought 1 ticket, for $1. He won a couple of local shows with it so I guess we did ok.
I was standing next to Alex Gambino when he won a BRAND NEW Dodge Hemi Quad Cab from Goodguys a few years ago. He used the money to start his own business.
I sell tickets for a new ford f-250 and a new harley and trailer every year. trucks are $10 bucks each and harley with trailer are 5 each. I get to meet the people who win them. goes to jdrf every year. we also are doing a polaris 500 ranger this year. $5 bucks a ticket. All for charity
Back in the mid 80's a guy I worked with won a custom Renault Fueago at an AMC company picknic. The sticker price was $28000. and the income tax was $ 8000. The dealers could not give away Fueago's at 12K and they offered him about 8 or 9 for it so he could pay the tax. In the end he got nothing but a couple months use out of it.
Have never won a car yet despite buying plenty of tickets on them. One nice thing about Canada, is that any winning such as a $50 million dollar lottery or a $60,000 dollar vehicle ,it doesn't matter what the prize is or the value it is TAX FREE ! Score 1, advantage Canada.
So whats the temperature right now? You guys do have those pot powered snowboard medalists................wait the pot and snoboards thing is redundant
Those raffle car odds are probably a hell of a lot better than any of the Lotto's. And I read somewhere recently that you would have to buy an average of 450K Big Macs to score an average win of $500 on their Monopoly game and would set you back about $1.8M. here it is: http://consumerist.com/2010/10/if-you-want-to-be-a-mcmillionaire-youd-better-start-eating.html So, compared to that kind of deal, the car raffles are probably almost a sure thing.
Yea a bleepn 98 Ford Taurus. Took over a year to get the title and had to give the damn thing away to get it out of my driveway.
About 25 years ago i was lucky enough to win a1956 F-100 351 and auto,9" rear. I guess you have to be in it to win.
I know of a guy in my town who won a restored 67 Corvette in a charity auction. Like somebody said earlier, the odds gotta be better than a state lottery.
Ask him- Gambino Kustoms, very well known member on here. I was right there- and I was in the passenger seat when he drove it across the stage with everyone applauding. Never told a more true story!
There is a car club in my area that trailers a built small block Chev to all the local car shows.It starts and runs. They sell tickets for 5 bucks a piece, but they don't raffle it till the end of the year. Year after year I see them doing the same thing. Motor looks the same to me. If they "raffle" it at the end of the year not at the shows who is to say they ever do. Great scam.
There was a radio station in Jacksonville FL that raffled a house off......yes, a house. Turns out, some poor shmuck won this thing, the house was stuck in probate (or something legal like that) took forever to get the deed straightened out, had to pull a mortgage to pay the taxes and realized that the great deal he got was smack deep in the hood....and was an udder peice of chit....add to that that the abandoned property rate in that particular neighborhood is upwards of 30% good luck reselling it... yeah, I'm thinking that I would be asking "uh.....before I accept this major award.....where was it again and can I go there first?" Then pass it off to the runner up.... I've won one thing in my life and that was at a GG show where I hadda car....I was second to the last draw and the only things left to pick were a $200 off a welder cert or a bundle of sham wows....I gave the $200 cert to a buddy that was in the market for a welder...
No i have not won a car........ but I have been involved in Raffling cars ..........I'm involved with Shelsley Walsh Hillclimb which (2005) needed 1 Million Pounds......yes that right 1 Million GBP (from a club with 1500 members !!) to purchase the lease of the track for the next 99 years.............. http://www.shelsley-walsh.co.uk/about/ Raffles can be a good way to make a profit, if i remember we raffled four in total over several years 2 Jags/Lotus/?? and the cars were purchased at a discounted 'trade' price then the tickets sold at events around the country. It means a lot of damned hard work selling enough tickets to make your money back and more........ No isues or problems with tax/titles here.......... . .
In 1995 not a complete car but a fiberglass body and frame from Raven Street Rods. I picked the model A pickup. Never finished it, I sold it.
Basil Davenports .....Spider II still climbs as good today .....makes the hairs on your neck stand up. Keith
the father of one of our employees (the employee has retired he is that old) his father won the use of a new dodge every year for life on the lawrence welk show way back in the early 60´s and was still getting a new car back a few years ago lost since the guy retired
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