To some people a car is just a car, with only the faintest of emotional attachments if it was a faithful and reliable steed. To other people though, a single car can mean the whole world, and entire families get attached to cars that just seem to stick around forever. When a family heirloom that valuable is stolen, there’s no way to put a price tag on replacing it.

Iraq war veteran Army Sgt. Martin May had his family ‘65 Mustang stolen from a storage unit in Sebastian, Florida, reports WPTV. Florida police were stumped, until a call from their brothers in blue in South Carolina to report that May’s Mustang had been found.

The 1965 Mustang had been in May’s family for decades, and he had stored it away with the hope of restoring it one day. In the meantime, May joined the Army and was sent to Iraq where, in the city of Ramadi in 2009, a sniper shot him in the face. The bullet cost him his eye, but in a recent, unrelated interview, May credited his Oakley sunglasses for saving his life.

As for the Mustang, it was stolen from the storage unit on the trailer it was left on. A call went out up and down the Treasure Coast to find the Mustang, but Florida authorities had no luck. Then a call came in from York County, South Carolina, where officers had apprehended a man driving a stolen truck hauling May’s stolen trailer and Mustang. May intends to restore the Mustang as part of his ongoing PTSD treatment, and hopefully the return of his family Mustang will give him a bit more peace.