Our Story

After I proposed to my now Fiancé, in Foz do Iguacu, Brazil; we were driving back to her city when we spotted this beautiful truck parked at a gas station. We turned around to look at it and soon discovered that it was being raffled off in the support of a great cause, to pay for the medical treatment of young boy born with developmental disabilities. We bought a ticket, and hoped and prayed that we might win.

Fast forward 6 weeks later, and my Fiancé calls me on the phone ecstatic, shouting with joy that we won! I said, "Won what?" She exclaimed, "The Truck!!" I asked, "What Truck?" ... "That Truck!!" Our ticket was drawn in the raffle and we won the truck, it was an incredibly exciting moment in our lives! Several months later, I visited Brazil and we went to meet the family who raffled it off in support of their son. It was a pleasure and a blessing to meet their family. I got to drive the truck for the first time, which was also my first time driving a "four on the tree" style shifter. We started the paperwork process to bring this unique truck home to the USA.

The next step was to find a shipping agent in both the US and Brazil, we then learned of the process required for preparing the truck for export. After many frustrating visits with the Brazilian DMV, and a visit from a DMV inspector, we finally had the truck in our name, and ready to be exported. It was then shipped from Cascavel, Brazil to Santos, Brazil where it awaited being loaded aboard the ocean liner. After it was cleared by Brazilian Customs, it was loaded and shipped to Panama, where then again it changed boats and made its way to Baltimore. In Baltimore the truck was unloaded and cleared by US customs with the help of our Import Broker. Then the truck was shipped on a flatbed to NY. The whole process took about 6 months beginning to end, with the actual shipping portion, requiring about 3 months. But in the end the truck finally showed up at our house and it was an unreal moment, first seeing this same truck in Cascavel, Brazil now here at my house! I can't say enough how blessed we are to have won this truck. It is truly incredible to know where it came from and be able to drive it regularly.