Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Cancer Survivor Wins 1975 Ferrari At National Automobile Museum


Leanne Look, a 55 year-old Golden Valley woman, beat cancer last year and this month she beat the odds to win the National Automobile Museum’s raffle car, a 1975 Ferrari 308 GT4 Dino with direct ties to Bill Harrah.
                Look said she was at the Reno National Championship Air Races when the National Automobile Museum display for the sleek, black Ferrari raffle car caught her eye. 
                “On a whim, I bought 8 tickets for $5,” Look explained.  “I didn’t know what year the car was I just knew it was a Ferrari and it was just a really cool car!”
                This particular Ferrari is cool car indeed. 
                “While every car we raffle is special,” said Jackie Frady, executive director of the National Automobile Museum, The Harrah Collection, “this car has ties to Bill Harrah himself.”
                The Ferrari was a one-owner car with less than 22,000 miles on it when it was donated to the National Automobile Museum by Earl Casazza.  Casazza bought the car from Bill Harrah’s Ferrari dealership, Modern Classic Motors, when it was located in downtown Reno.
                Casazza said he donated the Ferrari to boost fundraising efforts for the Museum.  It did. 
                More raffle tickets, a total of 89,112, were sold for the Ferrari than for any other car the museum has presented.
                To date Museum raffle cars have generated $336,000 for the nonprofit, 501 (c) 3.
                When Ferrari winner Leanne Look got the call notifying her of her win, she said she “ran right down!” to the Museum.
                She said she was in a fog while they took pictures of her with the Ferrari but her mind was very clear about what she was going to do with it.
                “I gave it to my son, Travis,” she said.
                Travis Look is a Reno Police officer and the gift was a smart move.
                The car “is really fast!” she said.
                Leanne Look said she never bought a ticket for the National Automobile Museum raffle car before but she is definitely going to buy tickets for the 2011 raffle car.
                “It’s a Corvette,” she explained, “and my daughter wants the Corvette.”

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