“It’s the best $1000 I’ve spent in my life.”

So said Ken Panici-Allen after being handed the keys to one of two new 2025 Hyundai i30 sedan N Line’s on Monday morning.

The 74-year-old was the metro winner of Telethon’s annual car giveaway on October 19, after donating $1000 in honour of his sick wife.

Mr Pancini-Allen said he made the donation under his wife’s name because she was undergoing treatment for ovarian cancer and Parkinson’s Disease.

He “thought it’d be nice for her to see her name on TV”.

Mr Pancini-Allen said he and his wife had been donating to Telethon for years they and encouraged “everybody else to go out there and spend that money every year, because those kids really need it.”

Mr Pancini-Allen recalled the moment the Martin couple got a knock on the door from Seven’

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