Win an All-Steel 1936 Chevy Pickup Street Rod + Fender Custom Shop Strat

The build: pre-war steel, small-block simple

BADD's grand prize this month is a 1936 Chevrolet pickup done the classic street-rod way: an all-steel pre-war cab and bed over a 350 V8 with a four-barrel carburetor and dual exhaust, plus power steering and power brakes so it drives like something you'd actually use on a Saturday. The listing doesn't publish the transmission, the odometer reading (pre-war rods are almost always true-mileage-unknown anyway), the paint color, or a build sheet — the photo carousel is your best window into finish quality. The sweetener is legitimate on its own: a Fender Stratocaster Limited Edition Custom Shop Heavy Relic in Aged Surf Green, serial #CZ577081, goes home with the truck.

Why it matters

Steel is the story. Most surviving '36 Chevy half-tons rusted away or were restored decades ago, and at any cruise night the pre-war rod field is dominated by Fords — a steel-cab Chevy is the rarer sight. The market agrees this is a $25k–$45k segment depending entirely on build quality: a customized '36 Chevy pickup recently sold for $27,500 on Bring a Trailer, while rough builds trade in single-digit thousands and show-quality trucks push far higher. Driver-grade with good bones is the honest read here.

The fine print worth knowing

Tickets run $30 for one up to $1,000 for 300, and per BADD's rules, entries are good for every giveaway in the current calendar month — the posted schedule is First Prize August 8, Second Prize August 16, Third Prize August 24, and the grand-prize truck-and-guitar drawing on August 31 at 8 p.m. Eastern at BADD's Miami headquarters, streamed on their Facebook. There is a genuine free mail-in route (hand-printed index card to the Miami HQ — full verbatim instructions in the free-entry section below), but note the deadline: cards must arrive by August 30 at 4 p.m. ET, a day before the drawing. One quirk worth knowing: the rules text on BADD's page currently prints two mail-in deadlines — a lapsed March 31, 2026 date and the August 30, 2026 date that matches this month's schedule — so if you're mailing an entry, the August date is the operative one, and confirming with BADD costs nothing. Vehicles are awarded in "As is Condition" with no guarantees. BADD is a real, Florida-registered 501(c)(3) (registration CH18378) founded in 1983; that said, raffle tickets generally aren't tax-deductible even when the operator is a charity. The page prints no minimum age or state-residency terms, so if your state is strict about raffles, ask before you buy.