I know it's not Christmas anymore and Christmas is a long ways away...but this is a great story about a guy who used to sell cars for a living and now just gives them away. He is known as the Car Santa.
Terry Franz is just a nice guy that started off giving a few cars away when he was a used car salesman. It made such an impact on the lives of people he touched, he kept doing it. Finally he realized he was better at giving cars away than selling them, so he set up a program called "Cars for Christmas".
Through Cars for Christmas, mechanics volunteer to fix the cars, and a non-profit organization helps to screen the requests and manage the process. Terry gets to be Santa.
If the video doesn't work above, you can also watch the video on YouTube here. It's worth watching. You can see how one woman is touched by the gift and is so incredibly grateful. Heartwarming and a good reminder how sometimes we take life for granted.
By the way, Terry Franz stopped getting most of his income when he started becoming Car Santa. He fell behind on his own car payment and ExxonMobil, a sponsor of CBS's Assignment America, has agreed to completely pay off his loan. Good all around.
(Image found at this location: http://www.cars4christmas.org/DSC00727_261.JPG)
