Winner: U.S. soldier wins 2010 Mustang Stories contest

[David Burkart]

One of its key objectives in launching the2010mustang.com was to collect some of the greatest Mustang stories from around the world. Finally, the marketing team at Ford has announced a winning tale, and it’s from a solider who’s currently deployed in Iraq.

Kory Chesher of Kentucky is the Grand Prize Winner of the 2010 Mustang Stories contest, meaning he’ll shortly be the recipient of one brand-new 2010 Mustang as well as an all-expenses-paid trip to its unveiling at the L.A. Auto Show.

Check out Kory’s inspiring entry that won him the contest below:

It started when I was about six years old. I was in the truck with my father and we were at a stoplight. Across the road at the other light was this “car”. It drew my attention away from everything else in the world. I asked my dad what it was and he simply said, “Oh, that’s a Mustang.” I remember it like it was yesterday. I now know that it was a 1968 black fastback. That was almost 20 years ago. 20 years of love, addiction, obsession. 20 years of longing and desire. Now I’m a soldier in the United States Army deployed to Iraq. I spend my spare time tearing through Mustang magazines that my family and total strangers are kind hearted enough to send to me. Every opportunity I get I’m online poring through forums and pictures; studying every little tidbit of knowledge I can get my hands on; meticulously memorizing seemingly insignificant trivia. Names, dates, specs, colors, paint codes, production numbers, costs, anything, everything. A Mustang of my own wouldn’t quell this life I live; it would supercharge it. The only thing greater than a life loving Mustangs is a life with a Mustang. With a Mustang to call my own I could finally experience the pride and freedom that I have only been watching from afar. It will ignite a passion like nothing I have ever experienced. Mustangs are my one true love. I am ready to go driving now.

Those interested in checking out other Mustang stories can still check them out at the2010mustang.com. Congratulations Kory!

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