New Jersey, october 16: A New Jersey car dealer plans to keep his word after offering Florida pastor Terry Jones a new car if he promised to not burn a Quran.
Car dealer Brad Benson made the offer in one of his dealership’s quirky radio ads, which focus more on current events than cars. But he was surprised when a representative for Jones called to collect the 2011 Hyundai Accent, which retails for $14,200.
“They said unless I was doing false advertising, they would like to arrange to pick up the car,” Benson recalled. At first he thought it was a hoax, so Benson asked Jones to send in a copy of his driver’s license. He did.
Jones never burned a Quran but said on Thursday that the offer of a car was not the reason. He said he plans to donate the car to an organization that helps abused Muslim women.
“We are not trying to profit from this. We are not keeping the car for ourselves ,” Jones said from
-Agencies