There is certainly one more happy classic Ford Mustang owner in North Carolina these days.  Army Captain John Pelikan had just returned from a fifteen month deployment in Afghanistan and arrived to be greeted by his loving family.  Amidst all the familial updates, this honorable Veteran's mother, Tamera, mentioned that his 1968 Ford Mustang was in the shop, having the radiator repaired.  Little did he know, there was much more to the story than a simple fix.

During Pelikan’s deployment, several family members and friends had pooled their resources together and put his Mustang in an automobile restoration shop to have it restored to glory…and then some.

Multiple family members gathered at his parents’ home, just a few miles away for John’s homecoming.  As he moved onto the back porch of the house, it was no doubt a sense of pure elation, as the honorable Army Captain cast his eyes upon a sexy black 1968 Ford Mustang reflecting the dawning sun, parked beneath a tall pine.

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