FORD MAKES HOLIDAY GIFT OF KING RANCH F-150 TRUCK TO LOYAL SAN ANTONIO CUSTOMER TO CELEBRATE F-SERIES SALES RECORD
SAN ANTONIO, TX - Ford Motor Company today celebrated the record-setting sale of its 912,000th F-Series truck in 2004 in a BIG way - with the giveaway of a 2005 King Ranch Special Edition F-150 to a loyal customer in San Antonio.
Willie Zavala, a San Antonio native and Vietnam veteran, got the surprise of a lifetime when officials from Southway Ford and Ford Motor Company presented him with the keys to the four-door, full-size luxury edition pickup truck, valued at nearly $38,000. The presentation was made at the Southway Ford dealership at 7979 Interstate 35 South.
"I never expected this," a stunned Willie Zavala said shortly after learning the news. "This is a beautiful Christmas gift."
Zavala has been a Southway Ford customer his entire life. He has purchased seven Ford pickup trucks from the dealership, and thought he was coming to Southway Ford this morning to sign the papers on his eighth truck.
As it turns out, that purchase would have been the 912,000th F-Series truck that Ford would have sold this year, a record for the century-old automotive manufacturer. When Ford officials learned the news last week that Zavala's intended purchase would set the record, they quickly decided to give him the truck as a reward for his customer loyalty and to celebrate the milestone mark. ....
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