02-06-06: Sometimes good things happen to good people. Rob Heard, a 16-year-old Mustang fanatic from Waterford, PA, was recently diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, Rhabdomyosarcoma. He has been an avid car enthusiast, involved in restoring cars since he was a youth. His parents decided to speed up the process of buying him his dream car - a new Mustang. They started at the Corry Ford dealership in Corry, PA with hopes of making the purchase a special occasion. Things escalated pretty quickly, as he ended up being invited to the AAI Ford Mustang assembly plant in Flat Rock, MI to watch his new car be built and take delivery.
Rob refers to the Ford Mustang as the "hottest car on the road" and was able to watch it being built along with his family. His shimmering new Vista Blue 2006 Mustang came equipped with the popular new “Pony Package” with white rocker stripes. At the completion of the build, his family and the employees gathered to watch him take the keys to his new 2006 Ford Mustang. Heard also was given an autographed jersey from hockey legend Wayne Gretzky and a Super Bowl jacket signed by Jerome Bettis who was in town for the big game on Sunday
AAI employees said that it may have been only the second time they’ve had a customer watch their car roll off the line. His mother, Karen Heard said, “It’s just a very touching thing to me because he’s gone through a lot, we just wanted him to have something special. We never expected anything of this magnitude.”
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