Dad who bought Mustang for son's bucket list gets offer from Ford CEO Jim Farley

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'I've just liked Mustangs for as long as I can remember. Six-year-old me liked it, the headlights looked cool, and I stuck with it.'

"For those wondering why I’d buy my 18yr old son a 330hp Mustang, well, he’s been given months to live and can’t work long enough to buy one himself," Tegerdine wrote in-part.

on March 13 to talk more about his situation and what made the iconic American muscle car so special. "With all that's happening, and we found out he has more tumors in his lungs. We needed to buy the car," Tegerdine told the press., Joseph said in seventh grade he was taller than anyone else on the football team at five feet and six inches tall. He told the publication that he played center and running back, before noting that one of the hallmarks of bone cancer is sudden and extreme growth.

"It was really crazy. That tweet was just kind of random. He sent a direct message to me, saying, 'Hey, you want me to do this?' If it's OK, his guys would get everything set up at the Ford Performance Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. They're flying us out there. It's just really cool, and we'll stay in Charlotte for a couple of days. There's a big dinner before school. Then Joseph will be on the track with the Dark Horse," Tegerdine told the press.

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