Winner of NTI adventure truck announced

A grandfather, planning to travel to Queensland’s Cape York, has been announced as the winner of a deluxe Expedition Truck, raffled to raise funds for medical research.

This was the fifth truck to be raffled by NTI and it raised $555,850 for motor neurone disease.

This year’s record fundraising amount brings NTI’s total raised for MND research to more than $1.5 million over four years.

Ian Fuller of the Blue Mountains was named the winner at the NTI Supercars round in Townsville earlier this month and was recently handed the keys to the Expedition vehicle, which doubles as a truck and a luxury motorhome.

Mr Fuller said the timing was amazing.

“We’ve been planning a trip up to Cape York for four years but because of COVID we never got there,” Mr Fuller said.

“We've had a departure date locked in for some time, so to go from a little pop-up camper trailer to this Expedition Vehicle is such an amazing gift.”

Mr Fuller said he purchased five tickets in NTI’s raffle.

Mr Fuller said the couple sold their caravan last year and his wife Margaret saw the Expedition vehicle and 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.”

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NTI CEO Tony Clark said all funds raised through the Expedition Truck ticket sales will be donated to the MND and Me Foundation for medical research.

“We are blown away so many people took part in this year’s raffle, helping to raise funds for life-saving research,” Mr Clark said.

“Every day, two people are diagnosed and two people pass away from MND. NTI’s former CEO Wayne Patterson lost his battle with the disease in 2018 and we’ve been committed to helping find treatments ever since,” Mr Clark said.

“In the past, we’ve raffled restored vehicles but this year we wanted to promote a sense of adventure and celebrate borders being open again with the Expedition Truck, and we’re thrilled Ian will be putting this vehicle to the test on his great adventure up North,” he concluded.