Disabled Veteran Receives Donated Car Beautifully Refurbished by Auto Collision Students – Good News Network

Disabled Veteran Receives Donated Car Beautifully Refurbished by Auto Collision Students  Good News Network

After spending years without wheels but with no shortage of errands, a Minneapolis veteran recently received a transformational gift. Students at a Minnesota engineering school beautifully refurbished a 2020 Hyundai Elantra for the Recycled Rides for Schools program at the nonprofit National Auto Body Council. US Navy veteran Robert Hanson hasn’t had his own car […] After spending years without wheels but with no shortage of errands, a Minneapolis veteran recently received a transformational gift. Students at a Minnesota engineering school beautifully refurbished a 2020 Hyundai Elantra for the Recycled Rides for Schools program at the nonprofit National Auto Body Council. US Navy veteran Robert Hanson hasn’t had his own car for over 2 years.

He has suffered severe health problems since his separation from the military, where he flew as a Navy airman from 1993 to 1997. Severe asthma and fibromyalgia issues make public transportation extremely difficult for Hanson, who received the Elantra at the Dunwoody College of Engineering in Minneapolis, after being referred to the Recycled Rides program by a Hennepin County welfare service. There, students at the college’s Automotive Collision and Refinishing school got to see what all the body work they’d been doing over the past several months was actually for. “I was so happy to see that he was happy to have literally a brand-new