Winner of Isuzu adventure truck announced
Prize-winning Blue Mountains couple heading to Cape York in $265,000 expedition vehicleA grandfather, planning to travel to Queensland’s Cape York, has been announced as the winner of a deluxe Expedition Truck, worth around $265,000, that was raffled to raise funds for medical research.
Ian Fuller of the Blue Mountains in NSW was named the winner at the NTI Supercars round in Townsville earlier this month and was recently handed the keys to the Isuzu-based expedition vehicle, which doubles as a truck and a luxury motorhome.
Ian spent $125 on purchasing five raffle tickets, and he said the timing of his good fortune was amazing.
“We’ve been planning a trip up to Cape York for four years but because of COVID we never got there,” he said.
“On the fourth of August, we will head north as that date has been locked in for six months – so going from a little pop-up camper trailer to this Expedition Vehicle is such an amazing gift.”
The Blue Mountains' couple sold their caravan last year and when his wife Margaret saw the Expedition vehicle she said: “Oh that’s fantastic, it’s got extra seating for the grandkids.
“The grandkids live 300 kilometres away, on the NSW mid-north coast and we have them every school holidays and at least one weekend a month, so it’s quite a trip to get them each time, and this truck will be great for that.”
This was the fifth truck to be raffled by NTI and it raised $555,850 for motor neurone disease research. This year’s fundraising amount brings NTI’s total raised for MND research to more than $1.5 million over four years.
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