The Aquia Creek Corvette Club, a Stafford regional club with members from Culpeper to Manassas and everywhere in between, raffled off a brand new 2009 Corvette convertible on Dec. 13 at Lindsay Chevrolet in Woodbridge.
The more than 20-year old club has been for years mostly a social club, with its members taking trips together in their Corvettes, having dinners, and generally having a fun time with an emphasis on America’s favorite sports car.
This past year the club decided to do more and to grow from simply a Corvette focused social club into a Corvette focused charitable and fundraising organization. For its first major fundraiser, the club decided to raffle off a new 2009 Corvette convertible and to give the proceeds to a combat wounded veteran from the Iraq or Afghanistan theater. The process began in January and it took until the end of July for the club to get a license from the Virginia Gaming Commission in Richmond. The club started selling tickets in August for $100 each. The original odds were 1 in 1,200 to win the $70,000 car.
Lindsay Chevrolet sponsored the club’s raffle, and the dealership’s general manager, Paul Smyth, and Santa Claus drew the winning ticket, which belonged to Al Maynard of Maryland, a veteran of the Army Air Corps.
“I’ve been laughing for three days,” Maynard said on Dec. 15 as he picked up his new car. “I wasn’t even thinking about it. If there’s anything I can do to help vets, I do it.“
The club raised around $10,000 through the raffle to benefit a combat wounded Marine and single father of two children, who lost both legs in a suicide bombing at a checkpoint in Haditha, Iraq, in early 2007. Additional donations are still being accepted.
For more information on the Aquia Creek Corvette Club, visit accclub.org.
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