Really lucky couple

JB

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badkins50

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I'm going to have to call shenanigans on this one :p. j/k. wheres my new vette, I want one. Congrats to them though.
 

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2 vettes, 2 years, pretty impressive!

Reminds me of an acquaintance in Vegas ... we were staying at the MGM Grand (Oldsmobile sent us there for the new car announcements back in the day) and we were standing in line to check in when the salesmanager from a neighboring dealership told me to hold his place, that he was going over to the dime machines. He walked over, put 5 dimes in and pulled the lever ... $10,000 jackpot! He wires the money home to his wife and tells her next year she and the kids are coming with him. We laugh and talk about it, everyone is congratulating him, etc. I tell him I want my cut because I held his place in line - he laughed.

Fast forward to the next year. Same place, standing in line to check in and this time I am behind he and his wife and 2 kids. He says to her, "See that dime machine, that is the one. This is what I did." With that he walks over, puts in 5 dimes, pulls the lever, and JACKPOT! Another $10k! Needless to say, he and his wife and kids had a GREAT time in Vegas!

Lightening can, and does, hit twice! I probably would not have believed it if I hadn't been there, both times, to witness it!
 

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What are the odds? Congrats to them!
 

stic88

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the only lottery i seem to win is the bi annual random pee in the cup lottery.
 

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Here you go JB a C&P of the article less photo ;)

Two cars, one lucky couple

Hanover couple wins their second Corvette in two years at Carlisle car show.
By TIM STONESIFER The Evening Sun
Posted: 09/20/2010 01:00:00 AM EDT


Earle and Dianne Black, of Hanover, stand next to the two Corvettes they ve won in consecutive drawings at the annual Corvettes at Carlisle. The odds of that feat are more than two billion to one. (Evening Sun Photo by Shane Dunlap)
Can lightning strike twice?

Apparently so, at least when it comes to the Black family winning corvettes.

It began last year, at the annual "Corvettes at Carlisle" car show event Earle Black has been attending with his wife, Dianne, for more than 20 years. Each year event organizers sponsor a drawing, with one lucky winner driving away in a special Corvette.

And last year, that winner was Dianne Black.

The couple looked on with thousands of others from a packed grandstand as the number on Dianne's ticket was called. She was the new owner of a yellow, 2004 Corvette with racing decals and 31,000 miles of road racing on it.

"I told my friends when we were out there at the raffle that if I win this car I'm going to absolutely scream," Dianne Black said last summer.

Then she screamed.

And the couple brought the car home -- their sixth Corvette -- with Earle Black, the retired owner of a garage in Brushtown, a longtime collector.

So this August, he said, when the two made the annual trek back to the Carlisle Fairgrounds, there was little talk of winning the drawing again. Though Earle Black said he held onto the tickets he was given with his passes, and bought three others, just for fun.

"I just did it for the same reason you buy lottery tickets," he said. "You just never know."

And as expected, this year Earle and Dianne listened at the drawing as another winning number was called-- not theirs

A few, long minutes passed.

With no one stepping forward to claim the prize -- a red, 2006 Corvette with just under 30,000 miles -- another number boomed from the public address system.
Earle Black's number.

"I was kind of embarrassed to walk up to the stage," he said, standing beside that red Corvette in his driveway this week. "I thought, how often does this happen?"

Not very often, it would seem.

Black said organizers told him there were about 50,000 tickets fluttering around that rotating drum in front of the crowd, and that the turnout was similar to in years past.

"There's just no way," Dianne Black said. "I mean, lighting doesn't strike twice, does it?"

Then, she said, she remembered that big tree in her back yard, which has been hit by lighting each of the last two summers.

And then Earle drove to the store and bought a few lottery tickets. Results there are pending.

Earle Black said maybe next year the couple will take their daughter to the car show, just for fun, to see if the tradition will continue. Dianne Black said maybe the streak actually has more to do with their son, who passed away eight years ago, and is smiling down on them.

Either way, the couple said the newest Corvette in the family is a keeper, and will always have a special significance.

After all, after years of collecting and restoring Corvettes, this one is lucky number seven.

tstonesifer@eveningsun.com
 

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Talk about luck!

I bought my son a $1 raffle ticket for a restored 67 Camaro this summer. Don't know what he's going to do with it if he wins, he's only 10 years old...

Dad will have fun driving it home though :D (If he wins......)
 

dolluper

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Crazy you have to be there to win....imagne the other person coming out of the can and not hearing the number with the winning ticket...but whoops it fell in the can
 
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