Has anybody ever won anything worthwhile?

[Fred]

Has anybody ever won anything worthwhile...............something they've been really pleased with?

My Aunt won a pair of shoes in a raffle once, she was so happy until she realised they weren't her size!!

She solved the problem by stuffing newspaper into the toes.

[Kern Dog]

I've won a few radio contests, a few trophies at car shows, but the crown jewel for me was the wife. SHE is the single greatest prize that I can ever claim.

[Fred]

Mine too...................better than any lotto win. I wouldn't trade her for the world or even 20 charger's 

But I mean like a raffle prize.

[Todd Wilson]

When I was a kid I won a Neil Diamond record and several bags of Dorito's and 2 liters of pop from a radio station. We had just pulled into the parking lot of the store when they announced it on the radio to be the first person in the store to contact them to win. I jumped out and ran in and won!!!!!!


Todd

[Kern Dog]

$79 in the CA state lottery.
Sorry. I guess I'm just lucky in other ways!

[Fred]

$79 in the CA state lottery.
Sorry. I guess I'm just lucky in other ways!

Better to be lucky in love than lucky in gambling.   A happy home life is what it's all about.   

[doctor4766]

I win radio station comps all the time.
Grand here, few hundred there...
Movie tickets and CDs have been a regular thing too.
I also won a V8 supercar racing helmet autographed by a number of famous drivers once.
Since it didn't have Brock's signature I flogged it on ebay for a nice sum.
The funds went into my Charger not long after I bought it.
I guess there's some merit in listening to obscure radio stations and drinking VB.
Not a lot of competition out there lol

[Tilar]

$79 in the CA state lottery.
Sorry. I guess I'm just lucky in other ways!

Better to be lucky in love than lucky in gambling.....   

Maybe so but the lottery is cheaper.   

I've won 4 numbers in the Texas lotto probably half a dozen times. Prizes ranged from $89 to I think $118 each time. I also won a pair of Cleveland Browns tickets a couple years ago which was pretty cool. I had never been to a Pro football game so I took my brother and had a great time.

[Dino]

I won a Lassie book when I was very little in a drawing contest.  I also won a body man contest when I was in my last year ('92) so I went home with a lot of tools, and I mean a lot!

A few years ago I started to play some contests on online-sweepstakes.com.  First thing I won was a book called about a guy trying to find an answer for every question his young son had for him, no matter how stupid.  I then entered some contests in the musical instrument section and immediately won second place in a Santana contest (wife is a pretty big fan).  I won autographed hats, t-shirts, cd's and some more stuff.  Everything but the tickets that the first prize winner got. 

I used to do a lot of these contests and one time got quite the surprise!  I just got home on a Friday afternoon when my doorbell rings.  I open the door and there's this big box sitting there with 'Gibson' on the side.  My wife's still at work, my first thought is, she bought me a guitar!  Quickly I realize there's no way she would do that, she's already asking me while I own so many guitars if I can only play one at a time.

I take the box in, open it up and it's a brand new Gibson Explorer in a hard shell case.  Dark cherry mahogany body and pretty hot pickups.  Only then did I realize I won one of the contests I entered months ago.  I never got an email or a letter saying I won, this thing just showed up.

I played it for twenty minutes, decided the neck profile fit my hand perfect so made a note to build a guitar with the same profile.  Also decided that I really don't like the shape of these things nor the fact I can't play anything soft on it, the pickups were just too much.  Figured I'd put it on CL to see if anyone had any interest and said highest offer by next week takes it.  Sold it for $900.

Haven't won anything since.   

[beedees]

When I was about eight yrs. old, I won won a MULE-that's right, a mule in a grocery store drawing. Worthwhile? I thought it was pretty cool. Life in the '50's was a lot simpler then.

[Indygenerallee]

Won a bicycle when I was 7, thought I was the shit winning something like that!!  Won some at the Casino but not much, Grandfather won $25,000 there last year on a $5.00 slot machine (lucky old coot!)

[nh_mopar_fan]

I've won a few things over the years.

I won VIP tickets and dinner with Los Lobos at Legal Seafood in Boston prior to their show.

Front row and back stage passes for Blondie.

More concert tix than I can recall.

The best would be a week trip to Italy. Airfair, hotel and a million lire spending cash. That was pretty neat. They let me pick anywhere I wanted to go and let me add days to the trip (at our expense) We ended up doing 10 days in Florence, Milan, Pisa, and Rome.

[TheGhost]

If I didn't have bad luck, I wouldn't have any luck at all.

[Old Moparz]

Never won much, but then again, I don't really gamble so I don't have a good chance at it from the start.   

Things I recall winning......

Door prize at a winter meet in a car club I joined around 1980. It was a poster of Miss Direct Connection that's probably still rolled up inside the tube & in my attic. 

$35 in the lottery once & a handful of free tickets from scratch offs.

I also won a free wall safe for sitting through a boring, full of crap time share seminar in the Poconos. The worst part was the wall safe was a fake electrical outlet.   

[charger490]

i go to a lot of gun raffle's  and win guns and cash  we have one coming up 100 guns and 4 Polaris atv sportsman500  10 bucks a ticket. also won a lot of trophies and 50/50s.at car shows now waiting for pch to come to my door.

[cavemanno1]

Not a damn thing  i need a hug

[JeffYoung]

2011 SCCA Southeast Road Racing Championships, Improved Touring S class.  Beat about 70 competitors in a 30 or so long race series from March to October at VIR, Roebling Road, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Road Atlanta, Carolina Motorsports Park, Barber International Raceway, Nashville Superspeedway, Daytona, Sebring, Homestead and Palm Beach International.   Best six results counted, and I had five wins -- 1 at VIR, 3 at Roebling and one at Charlotte going into the final double points championship race.  3 of us had a shot at the title, I beat the other two guys head to head and won the championship.

I race a 1980 TR8, do all the work myself except for building the motor (and I've built one, just send this out now for best results), welding and body work.  Race against Acura Integra GSRs, 2nd Gen Mazda RX7s, Porsches 944s, Mazda Miatas, Datsun 240/260/280zs, NIssan 240sxes, NIssan 300zxes, BMW 325is, Alfa Romeo Milanos, etc.

[XS29L9Bxxxxxx]

Nearly 20 years ago...

...I won the heart of my wife 

[A383Wing]

I won $2 on the last Mega Millions Lottery.....got the Mega ball number...cost me $5 though

Bryan

[F8-4life]

At the age of 10 I won 1st in a local shuffleboard tourny and got $50! Won a gomecube at a church bingo but ended up giving it away

[mauve66]

i was like 11 or so and filled out a drawing card at a local dry cleaners, won a bass boat but since i wasn't old enough, i couldn't collect it, haven't won a thing since and doubt if i will, probably jinxed myself by not being able to collect the boat

[XS29L]

Won a trophy in the pinewood derby in cub scouts about a million years ago and a bunch of street races.

[Fred]

$79 in the CA state lottery.
Sorry. I guess I'm just lucky in other ways!

Better to be lucky in love than lucky in gambling.....  

Maybe so but the lottery is cheaper.  

I've won 4 numbers in the Texas lotto probably half a dozen times. Prizes ranged from $89 to I think $118 each time. I also won a pair of Cleveland Browns tickets a couple years ago which was pretty cool. I had never been to a Pro football game so I took my brother and had a great time.

Come on Tilar, one day you'll meet Miss Right and you'll make her Mrs. Right and you'll live happily ever after.
It can happen. Like my father-in-law always says...............there's a lid for every pot    

[Fred]

Not a damn thing   i need a hug

[Budnicks]

I have won lots of rounds Drag Racing over 30+ years, never a National event though... Won some smaller races in Winged Sprints & Nostalgia drag racing, for some kind of worthless Plaques or Trophy's... Lots of crappy stuff from small raffles... I got 5 of 6 numbers on a Calif. State Lottery $200+ million, some stupid number of people, also got 5 out of 6 numbers, we each only got like $69, I think it ended up to be  ...   I thought I was going to be kind of rich or at least a windfall of cash, previously 5 out of 6 were in the $100K range & a bunch of my close friends & women came over for a pool party, pizza & a keg of beer or drinks, so I lost money in the long run, I had a good time doing it though.... Oh I forgot a "Closest to the pin contest" at a Hogans tour Golf tournament & won a set of $1000 Ping Irons, I am in the Golf business so it was no big deal... I have won a few Golf tournaments also but I actually earned them & paid taxes on them..

[Chryco Psycho]

Never , I can't win a coin toss .
did win a few races drag racing but are we talking random chance or working for it ?

[Dans 68]

Won an iPad II last year from a blood bank. Karma is real.... 

Dan

[Fred]

Never , I can't win a coin toss .
did win a few races drag racing but are we talking random chance or working for it ?

Same here. ( a rather sad state of affairs)

We are talking random chance.

[Vainglory, Esq.]

I won a car once. Well, I didn't win it, a friend did, but he had no driver's license so he gave it to me.

You may be thinking that this guy was an idiot to just hand it out like that when he was the one holding the winning ticket, but it was a 1982-ish Dodge Caravan. Ended up being the band car for about 6-9 months until one of my friends/bandmates seized the engine. Pretty good for just paying the taxes.

[Bob T]

Had a $600 win on lotto once about 12 years ago, the rest are just yellow pieces of paper.
And a few meat raffles when I used to go to the pub years ago and won a Meguires car polishing kit and buffing tool with the changeable pads at a car show- that was cool 

Knew of a guy that won a 2nd div in the lotto worth a couple of hundred thou, he was a solid plasterer and just cut loose with it, had a hair transplant, brought a drag car, brought harleys for himself and best new friend, it all went pear shaped when he demanded the bike back and got the heavies involved and it went from bad to worse startlingly quickly and he ended up doing a stretch for it. Got out a couple of years later, broke as and had to go back plastering....( insert trombone noise wah wah waaaah )

[Mike DC]

Knew of a guy that won a 2nd div in the lotto worth a couple of hundred thou, he was a solid plasterer and just cut loose with it, had a hair transplant, brought a drag car, brought harleys for himself and best new friend, it all went pear shaped when he demanded the bike back and got the heavies involved and it went from bad to worse startlingly quickly and he ended up doing a stretch for it. Got out a couple of years later, broke as and had to go back plastering....( insert trombone noise wah wah waaaah )

Lottery winners don't have a great track record of using the money well.  The kind of person who plays lottery is a risk taker by nature and dumping a lot of money on them suddenly is a recipe for disaster in a lot of cases.

[bill440rt]

First thing I can remember winning that had meaning to me was a fishing derby as a kid. I had to be about 9 or so, showed up with a cheap fishing pole & a cup of worms. Meanwhile, the other kids all had fancy poles, lures, tackle, etc. I was the first kid to score a rainbow trout. Won a $100 savings bond, & got my picture in the paper. Good day for me as a kid, & managed to piss off a lot of the other kids, too!

Won tickets to Ozzfest a few years back by calling in a radio contest, that was cool. Unfortunately, once I got there I realized just how old I really am!   

[nvrbdn]

not squat, nothing. nada. zilch. zero.   

[GOTWING]

I won a mountain bike at a car show raffle.. and the best one was a new complete set of Budweiser golf clubs, bag etc.

[Chryco Psycho]

I gave up even buying tickets , I went to a car show 2 years ago & they had 2 50/50 draws , it was abig show & I think the morning draw was close to $1500, the the afternoon they had a second draw for $800 or so .... yes you guessed right the same person won both draws . I went to a social event last year & you do not even buy tickets they hand them out with the meal , there was 10 items to be won & the same person won 6 of them , how do you complete when people have luck like that
I have won the lottery twice now ...... But $10 doesn't go very far !!

[moparstuart]

   I won a chevy crate motor last september at a car show , First time i have ever won anything big . Sold it the next day for $ 2800.00.

[learical1]

My brother and I went to Super Shops back in February, 1978 so I could buy an Edelbrock CH4B manifold.  They were running a contest, giving away one Ford Courier every month until the Finals at Ontario Motor speedway, when Super Shops would give away their funny car.  I bought the manifold, my brother wins a Courier.

Most I ever won was $875 from a radio station.  Monday - Friday 8 AM-4 PM, the station would call out a name.  You had 15 minutes to call the station.  If you called in time, you get $125 an hour until someone else called in in time, up to a max of $1000.  They called it "the Peak Workforce."  I made it 7 hours.  They called my name at 2 PM and I called it at 2:05.  I called in again at 6:45 the next morning, offering to come in early to make some overtime.  Bastards turned me down!

[Rolling_Thunder]

Won a $50 gift certificate from Hotchkis Performance at their show a little bit ago.

Won $1700 my first time to Vegas (put in a $20 and gambled on that for 5 hours)

and won numerous team sport events (football, track, basketball, etc) 

[Tilar]

$79 in the CA state lottery.
Sorry. I guess I'm just lucky in other ways!

Better to be lucky in love than lucky in gambling.....  

Maybe so but the lottery is cheaper.  

I've won 4 numbers in the Texas lotto probably half a dozen times. Prizes ranged from $89 to I think $118 each time. I also won a pair of Cleveland Browns tickets a couple years ago which was pretty cool. I had never been to a Pro football game so I took my brother and had a great time.

Come on Tilar, one day you'll meet Miss Right and you'll make her Mrs. Right and you'll live happily ever after.
It can happen. Like my father-in-law always says...............there's a lid for every pot    

LOL, I've met 3 different ones that went by "Miss Right"... I just didn't realise they all had the same first name of "Always".  

[mauve66]

well, if i ever win the big lotto 60 mill plus, i will share with all the regulars on here, of course i get to decide what "regular" means............ and skip ain't it............

[Fred]

 I won a chevy crate motor last september at a car show , First time i have ever won anything big . Sold it the next day for $ 2800.00.

Geez! what are score. Good for you. 

[Fred]

I gave up even buying tickets , I went to a car show 2 years ago & they had 2 50/50 draws , it was abig show & I think the morning draw was close to $1500, the the afternoon they had a second draw for $800 or so .... yes you guessed right the same person won both draws . I went to a social event last year & you do not even buy tickets they hand them out with the meal , they was 10 items to be won & the same person won 6 of them , how do you complete when people have luck like that
I have won the lottery twice now ...... But $10 doesn't go very far !!

It's really amazing how some people manage to win lotto (and I'm talking 1st division) twice. I mean what are the odds. But they do.
    And the rest of us poor schmucks can only dream about it!   

[doctor4766]

Came home one day and announced to the (ex) wife that I'd won lotto and I'd give her half.
Next thing you know she's packing her bag mumbling something about "about time..and moving out"
I hope she liked the $14.50 check that I posted to her.

[Tilar]

  Damn, you mean it's that easy? lol

[Budnicks]

Came home one day and announced to the (ex) wife that I'd won lotto and I'd give her half.
Next thing you know she's packing her bag mumbling something about "about time..and moving out"
I hope she liked the $14.50 check that I posted to her.

, that's f--ken funny stuff there...

[Fred]

not squat, nothing. nada. zilch. zero.   

you forgot nix

[Rolling_Thunder]

not squat, nothing. nada. zilch. zero.   

you forgot nix

e niente

[70charger_boy]

I just won the 684 million dollar Mega Millions jackpot.

[GOTWING]

Man if i won that jackpot ( and yes i played) the first thing i would have done was to ship my old highschool car (my 1973 Dodge Charger S/E ) to Hodges Mopar restorations and have them do the finest restoration EVER done on a 73 Charger! I have had a complete 69 TNT 440 motor and trans in my barn since 1986 to someday go in that car. How times have changed, I only paid $200 for the motor / trans back then.  It was out of a 69 Chrysler 300 at the local
junkyard, complete with air cleaner,alternator,p/s pump, everything pulled in one piece! The 300 was cool it was a black convertible with a white interior, hit in the right front corner.

[BigBlackDodge]

I just won the 684 million dollar Mega Millions jackpot.

HAHAHAHA...................I found your hidden ticket in the McDonalds!



BDB

[moparstuart]

I just won the 684 million dollar Mega Millions jackpot.

dude you pop up at the best times   

[myaerocars]

   Last year I won $2,500 in free shell gasoline!

   Entered one of those  tear off things at the autozone and forgot about it.  Grand prize was a trip to the Indy 500. When I filled out the enter form, I said to myself... " I just want the gas - skip Indy!"  (see I am disabled and unable to travel so the grand prize did not really interest me).   Got a letter saying I won, fill out the forms and then they sent me 25   $100 Shell gas  gift cards.

   Gave one to mom, one to dad and one to sis and one to brother.  Gave 2 to church for the shuttle bus ..... swapped 2 for a complete 8 3/4  3.23 rear axle ready to install.  Put the rest in the tanks!    Such a deal.

Keep trying if you have not won anything... who knows....

Good luck and Godspeed,
JON 

[71ChallengeHer]

I just won the 684 million dollar Mega Millions jackpot.

So when are we getting married ?     

[Magnumcharger]

I won a complete home stereo system at a car show. I was way across the grounds when I heard my name called as winner of the door prize.
Problem was, I had a vasectomy only a few days earlier.
Man, getting across that couple of acres with a couple of ACHE-rs was almost too much!

I also won a Nintendo Wii system at a company Xmas party. I tried it out once, then sold it!!

[Budnicks]

not squat, nothing. nada. zilch. zero.   

you forgot nix

also forgot ZIP & goose eggs

[redmist]

I won this off of Pirate4x4:

[Fred]

car parts are always a winner!