A Dorset courier driver was left stunned at home after BOTB presenter Christian Williams arrived to tell him he had won a £45,000 Ford Mustang Bullitt. Oscar Keats, 25, had been automatically entered into selected competitions every month through his BOTB Pass membership, and his father had been secretly in on the reveal from the start.
Keats looked overwhelmed before seeing the car, saying, “I feel like I’m going to pass out.” When the cover came off, he added, “I don’t know what to say. I’m speechless” and “I feel like I’m dreaming.” He also said, “You never really think you’re going to win. I don’t think my mates are going to believe it.”
The prize is a Ford Mustang Bullitt, a model inspired by the car driven by Steve McQueen in the film Bullitt. BOTB is an online competition firm that runs car giveaways, and Williams said the best part was that Keats genuinely had no idea he had even entered for the vehicle because of his membership.
After taking a seat inside the Mustang, Keats started the V8 engine and grinned as it roared into life. “It’s lovely,” he said. “It’s a proper American muscle car, and you can’t really beat it.” Williams called it “an incredible machine” with classic muscle car presence and sound, along with modern performance and technology.
Keats said he regularly visits Germany’s Nürburgring race circuit every year, and he was already tempted to take the new Mustang there for a spin. That gives the win a sharper edge than a simple garage reveal: this is not a prize he will admire from a distance, but one he seems ready to drive hard.
For BOTB, the surprise landed exactly as intended. Keats was not entering a one-off draw with his eyes fixed on a single car; he was being put into selected competitions month after month, and the winning ticket was hidden in plain sight. That is why the reveal worked so well, and why the car now matters to a 25-year-old who clearly knows how to appreciate what sits under the bonnet.
