151 a new york man living with an incurable form of cancer will be able to take a road trip in his dream car thanks to the generosity of his local car dealership peter hagberg of rochester new york went to a west herr car dealership last week in hopes of crossing off the final item on his bucket list purchasing a ford mustang gt convertible hagberg 59 was diagnosed in 2014 with waldenstrom macroglobulinemia an incurable and rare form of blood cancer hagberg underwent six months of chemotherapy that put his cancer in remission but the average survival rate is only sixandahalf years according to the national institutes of health meet the window washers that transform into superheroes for sick kids while hagberg was car shopping last week he opened up to the car salesmen about his health struggles the west herr dealership responded by selling hagberg his dream car at cost days later the west herr auto dealership group 23 dealerships in all gave hagberg and his wife jane a check for 5000 to help cover medical costs and pay for a road trip in the mustang to visit their grandchildren in maine and pennsylvania i was blown away hagberg said it restored my faith in people you kind of lose track of people who do good and you kind of have to search them out and they found me this time james raymond is the sales manager at west herr nissan of lockport where hagberg purchased the car he told abc news that he and a fellow salesman knew immediately they wanted west herr to help hagberg even more we were both in tears looking at each other saying we need to go a step further for mr hagberg raymond recalled we were in awe of his spirit and his personality reynolds reached out to matt lasher west herrs marketing director expecting that the auto group could possibly give their customer 500 instead the dealership donated 10 times that amount we were definitely touched by peters story and wanted to do something special and allow him to go on a road trip and see his family and take full advantage of his car lasher told abc news we wanted to surprise him raymond added what we did is small compared to the battles that mr hagberg faces everyday