Sunnen set a new record of $120,000 in donations during the Sunnen Engine Charity Sweepstakes held at the 2019 Performance Racing Industry (PRI) Trade Show in Indianapolis. The previous record of $102,000 was set at last year’s PRI Show.

A visit from Richard “The King” Petty may have had a positive impact on sales as fans swarmed the ticket booth to meet and photograph the NASCAR legend, as well as purchase tickets for the chance to win a high-performance engine.

This was the 31st anniversary of the Sunnen Engine Charity Sweepstakes, and once again all proceeds went to Victory Junction, a camp for children living with serious medical conditions founded by the Petty family. Jerry Lavender of Layton, Utah, ultimately won the prize.

For the second straight year Sonny Leonard and the team from Sonny’s World Class Racing Engines in Lynchburg, Virginia, built a high-performance engine valued at more than $66,000. The custom-built 762-cubic inch, 1,400 HP, naturally-aspirated, hemispherical head EFI engine can be street and strip driven on 93 octane gasoline.  

For more information, visit sunnen.com, sonnysracingengines.com, and victoryjunction.org/sunnen-sweepstakes.