roffle What was the best AS roffle of ever?

[loserone]

Not actually a roffle, sorry.  What have been our best roffles? I quite liked winning a Lexus LS400..

[busmansholiday]

I liked winning this Merc, which came in useful for my friends wedding.

 

[dollywobbler]

I don't think anything will ever top the Lada Samara 'Wheel of misfortune' ROFFLE live at Shitefest 2016.

[stereotype]

Father @Tickman and his Jag was a good one, reinforced the fact we are working class!

[loserone]

9 minutes ago, dollywobbler said:

I don't think anything will ever top the Lada Samara 'Wheel of misfortune' ROFFLE live at Shitefest 2016.

This is one I missed out on, but was exactly what I was thinking of

[Jim Bell]

13 minutes ago, dollywobbler said:

I don't think anything will ever top the Lada Samara 'Wheel of misfortune' ROFFLE live at Shitefest 2016.

Got to be. Hands down. 

[Supernaut]

32 minutes ago, loserone said:

Not actually a roffle, sorry.  What have been our best roffles? I quite liked winning a Lexus LS400..

But dome won that. Well, he won it when I roffled it for £3 per ticket!

Or was there another LS400 roffled through AS too?

 

The 2016 ShiteFest wheel of misfortune was amazingly done, though. Another vote for that from me.

[Jazoli]

I liked winning the Jag back after I'd sold it

[beko1987]

49 minutes ago, dollywobbler said:

I don't think anything will ever top the Lada Samara 'Wheel of misfortune' ROFFLE live at Shitefest 2016.

A perfect mix of a fab prize, magnificent danger and alcohol! 

[DoctorRetro]

I wish I'd won that Samara. ?

What would be the most epic collection from a roffle win? Essex to Aberdeen and back in 23 hours was my entry. 

[SiC]

1 hour ago, Jazoli said:

I liked winning the Jag back after I'd sold it

MFV?

That's had quite a few owners and a lot of miles covered in collections alone. It's gone back and forth from Scotland to South of England at least four times!

[320touring]

I loved this one for 3 reasons:

1. I got shot of the Alfa

2. It sold our really quickly

3. I met @sporty-shite 

 

 

 

[camryv6]

Junkmans Range Rover

[Jazoli]

29 minutes ago, SiC said:

MFV?

That's had quite a few owners and a lot of miles covered in collections alone. It's gone back and forth from Scotland to South of England at least four times!

Yeah that one, I don't know why I sold it and still miss it but didn't want it back when I won it, go figure as they say..

[SiC]

3 minutes ago, Jazoli said:

Yeah that one, I don't know why I sold it and still miss it but didn't want it back when I won it, go figure as they say..

I believe @Eddie Honda owns it now. 

It was a decent car but made me realise that Jags just aren't me. At least at my current age. 

[sdkrc]

I'm obviously biased so my vote is the visa. 850miles in a day but it was special because it was a community save.

Also, what is the tale of the Lada Samara. I'm intrigued?

[omegod]

I can't recall which one it was but there was one roffle that went mental where roughly 7 cars were going to change hands if it fell a certain way, May have been for a good cause or something 

[barefoot]

I quite liked the idea behind the Cannock one, I paid a few quid to someone & failed to win an unknown car.

I didn't even go to Cannock that weekend & can't remember what sort of car they bought & raffled.

[320touring]

That was a pug 307 CC which promptly what it's heater matrix whilst en route to @chaseracer towers.

Negotiating Cannock whilst driving a mobile fog machine was fun*

[chaseracer]

It spent a week parked at the top of the road (with the keys in the tailpipe!) while Billeh sorted transport.  I'd like to tell you that house prices have since recovered, but my cars are still here...

[wuvvum]

The Samara and Visa were both memorable contenders, but the answer is obviously the roffle for my CX which is ongoing as I type - you too could participate in this slice of Autoshite history for just £11 (or two for £20).

[chaseracer]

This one, perchance? ?

 

[wuvvum]

The very same.  In fact I note that you are yet to purchase any tickets - how many should Borniteidentity put you down for?

[DoctorRetro]

1 hour ago, sdkrc said:

I'm obviously biased so my vote is the visa. 850miles in a day but it was special because it was a community save.

Also, what is the tale of the Lada Samara. I'm intrigued?

I forgot about the Visa! A bit crazy being as it was my idea at the start! What became of it? 

[sdkrc]

The clutch cooked itself at Scotoshite in January and there's some other part of the clutch mechanism which has bent. I've saved some $$$ and am getting her fixed after lockdown. 

She made an excellent show car and still fires up first time/rolls freely.

[Carlosfandango]

I won this on my 50th birthday in 2019. Yeah, I had to get the fupping thing shipped across the sea but it made me very happy indeed. 
 

CFD 

[aldo135]

I think my Xantia win deserves mention for including a family swim on the way back! Top man @SierraMikeHotel picked it up for me and met me at the Hertz drop off outside Heathrow. 
 

The Bini that’s become an AS bike was a good one too, especially as @Tickman bought me the ticket and I didn’t know until it was drawn! Brilliant wee car that’s ready for a new owner again I’m sure? 

[Split_Pin]

Surely this is a contender, won at the end of January 2019 from @320touring

1) 3 tickets were £12

2) It was less than 10 miles away from me.

3) Had no MOT but needed only a wheel bearing to pass which was supplied.

4) Having just completed 6 months/6000 miles of trouble free service for Ms_Touring, I knew it was reliable

5) Brutha_Touring subsequently found all the service history, confirming that @Lacquer Peel’s friends mum had spent over £1k on it in the last year having all the brake and fuel pipes replaced.

6) It has gone on to provide a lot of fun for me and my family, including a trip to Arran last year, the roof works.(manual) and doesn't leak (much!). Everyone seems to love it including my postman and neighbours.

7) It's in overall decent nick after just a polish and valet.

The only negative is that it won't become a forum bike because despite some indecision last summer, I'll never part with it now. My wife and I wrote our wills recently and if I predecease her, it's to be parked up in the garage for my son.

[rantingYoof]

5 hours ago, Supernaut said:

But dome won that. Well, he won it when I roffled it for £3 per ticket!

The story behind that is one of my favourites.

You buy it for £sillylowprice because owner is literally emigrating the next day.
You pootle about in it.
You take it on a track day and its brakes and electrics get utterly gubbed (or, in fairness, more utterly gubbed than they were before)
You understandably think 'fuck this' and roffle it, selling out in about 5 hours flat.
Dome wins, comes to collect, and fixes* the electrics by booting the dashboard.
 

[loserone]

5 hours ago, Supernaut said:

another LS400 roffled through AS too

Yes, I won the ex @Spottedlaurel ex @JohnK ex @Jim Bell Ls400 ("tales of £13 car") and Mrs L1 spun it into some road furniture.  Subsequently swapped for a mandolin, it's sitting on @scaryoldcortina's drive for his son, who's bought a Mercedes Benz instead.