HICKORY - The NCEL today handed over the keys to the latest winner of a brand new Harley-Davidson® Fat Bob® motorcycle. Joe Shuford of Newton is the third player to scratch and reveal the Fat Bob® prize on the Harley-Davidson® game introduced in late March.

Shuford told the NCEL that he is only an occasional player of the lottery. He had stopped with his wife at the Conover Pure on 1st Street in Conover when on impulse he purchased his winning Harley-Davidson® instant scratch-off ticket.

“I couldn’t believe it,” Shuford explained. “I told my wife to look at the ticket because I think I have won a motorcycle.”

Shuford added that a week after he won the motorcycle, he bought another Harley- Davidson® ticket and won $100.

NCEL Executive Director Tom Shaheen congratulated Shuford during an event at Blue Ridge Harley-Davidson® in Hickory.

The Harley-Davidson® game had a total of six 2009 Harley-Davidson® Fat Bob® motorcycles that players could win instantly. As of today, there are two remaining. In addition, there are two that players can win by entering the two remaining second chance drawings. In the first drawing held May 6, a Lenoir woman’s name was drawn as the motorcycle winner. The NCEL will award one motorcycle each for the remaining two drawings. Plus, the NCEL also will award over a thousand Harley-Davidson® merchandise prize packs in the second chance drawings. Players may enter as many non-winning tickets as they want.