TUSCALOOSA,
Ala. – Larry Coon, owner of Coon’s Excavating in Norwalk, Ohio, will be turning
a few of his employee’s heads when the 71-year-old pulls into the parking lot
in a customized and fully equipped Ford F-250 Super Duty he just won in ProPickup
magazine’s Super Crew Sweepstakes.
Coon’s name
was pulled from more than 7,500 entires ProPickup
magazine had received during the nearly year-long sweepstakes program that
began last April.
“I can’t believe I’ve won. I’d seen the
[sweepstakes] registration form in the magazine and asked my wife to fill it
out and send it in,” says Coon during a phone interview the day after he was
notified. “I never win anything, so I’m still in a little bit of shock."
When asked
about the plans for his new truck – a four-wheel-drive 2011 Ford F-250 Super
Duty Crew Cab diesel valued at more than $80,000 – the Ohio contrctor, who has
more than 40 years in the concrete business says, “It looks like I can finally
retire my ‘02 F-350 that I drive daily for work and use the Super
Crew. I’ve followed its building from the first article. The Super Crew is
some truck.”
The
magazine’s Ford Super Duty, with custom vinyl graphics and the bed filled with
tool boxes and equipment, was customized by the editorial staff and Truck
Supply & Outfitters in Tuscaloosa to be the ultimate construction
contractor’s work pickup.
The truck’s
transformation from a “plain Jane” white work truck to “Super Crew” was covered
in every issue of the construction industry automotive magazine and on its
website, propickupmag.com. That’s where Coon, a professional concrete
contractor, saw the sweepstakes entry form and mailed it in.
The ProPickup
staff will present Coon the keys to Project Super Crew during a special
ceremony at Town & Country Ford in Bessemer, Ala., May 18. Then he’ll
be driving back to Ohio where the Super Crew will take on the duties it was
built for – serving as a work truck in the construction business.
“We can’t
thank our sponsors enough for helping put together such a great truck,” says
Stephen Abernathy, ProPickup’s associate publisher.
“Building a
Ford Super Duty like Project Super Crew shows how the right aftermarket
products can take function and form to an even higher level on the jobsite. We
couldn’t have asked for it to go to more deserving businessman who has spent
his life serving the heavy construction industry.”
ProPickup is a bi-monthly
publication that reaches more than 210,000 owners and managers of construction,
landscaping, aggregates, road and bridge building companies across the country
through both print and electronic distribution.
The magazine
builds a sweepstakes project truck each year with the help of sponsors’ product
support and encourages the readers to enter the annual sweepstakes to win it
when the build is finished.
Sponsors for
ProPickup’s Ford Super Crew Sweepstakes: Ford Truck; www.ford.com;
Vanair/www.vanair.com;
Hypertech/hypertech-inc.com;
Sage Oil Vac/www.sageoilvac.com;
Valvoline Commercial Products/www.valvoline.com;
Amp Research/www.amp-research.com;
UWS Truck Accessories/www.uwsta.com;
Buckstop Truckware/ www.buckstop.biz;
ARB USA/www.arbusa.com;
Mile Marker/www.milemarker.com;
B&W Hitches/www.turnoverball.com;
Mickey Thompson Tires/www.mickeythompsontires.com;Transfer
Flow/www.transferflow.com;
Truck Supply & Outfitters/www.trucksupplyandoutfitters.com;
USFleetTracking/www.usfleettracking.com;
Other
manufacturers that donated product toward the Ford Super Crew Sweepstakes truck
build include: AFE; Bushwacker; BDS Suspension; Hellwig Products; Airaid; EBC
Brakes; Camoclad; Advanced Signs & Graphics; BD Diesel; Marathon Seat
Covers; BOLT; Dick Cepek; Oracle Lighting Technologies; Gamber-Johnson; Go
Light; Holiday Raceway; Cobra Electronics; PIAA; Prolong; Weather Tec, Acari
and Whelen.
Fleetwest Transferable Truck Bodies (www.fleetwest.net) will be supplying a Load'N'Go Powerbody for next years sweepstakes.
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