Seaside coffee travel trailer in Australia was raffled off to a new owner for $50

Ms Willson first parked the 1950s replica camper beside the Ross Creek boat ramp on Queensland's Capricorn Coast about seven years ago after it was built by a local carpenter.

She has since grown a vibrant community and a diverse circle of friends around the little blue and white trailer selling coffee.

"I always get a little bit of itchy feet and I've had a lot of customers who've said to me they'd love to have a little business like Ruby," she said.

"But financially, for a lot of people, [starting or buying a business] can be a bit of a strain."

Mr Coudrey, whose national agency has sold more than 4,000 businesses since 1995, said the common hurdle the raffle method would remove was the issue of finance.

"It's probably not an easy business for a bank to lend money on, so even if a buyer wanted to buy it, getting money from a bank wouldn't be easy, especially since the royal commission, that's really tightened up lending," Mr Coudrey said.

Ms Willson has developed some special friendships with many of her regular customers.

One of those is grey nomad and sailing enthusiast, John Amber.

Mr Amber drove his campervan into the Ross Creek car park about two years ago and has spent every morning since perched on the park bench, watching the customers come and go.

The 66-year-old was the first to buy a ticket in the raffle but said he has no plans of coming out of retirement.

"The moment they call out my name, there'll be a for sale sign right beside it," Mr Amber said.

Too tall to stand up straight inside the van, Mr Amber said if Ruby ended up leaving Yeppoon, it was likely he would pull up stumps and continue north on his own caravan adventure.

"I'd move on — I've got the old bus over there and I better get somewhere before it rusts out," Mr Amber said.

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Ruby was won by Marianne, who took it to Sydney, and put it up for sale on Gumtree.

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