Desperate times call for desperate measures, as they say. With business so slow that Steve White contemplated closing his shop, he decided to not go down without a fight and thought of a unique way to boost his workload: raffle off his own personal Porsche Carrera.
On a humorous note, the winner, a 21-year-old woman, did not take the car home immediately
because it has a manual transmission…and she doesn’t know how to drive stick.
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