The Dream of a White Mustang

A Vietnamese refugee's journey from a boy who loved cars to a star auto engineer

From AARP

A collection of Ford Mustangs, brought to Vietnam for an exhibition for U.S. soldiers. Courtesy Anghel Restorations.

As darkness fell, Hau Thai-Tang could hear the gunfire. “Every night the sound got closer and closer to our home”—terrifying for anyone, but hard to imagine for an 8-year-old boy. “That’s what my brother and I grew up with,” Hau says. “When we would go visit our relatives in the countryside, we would see post-battle scenes, dead people in the streets.” An aunt and uncle were killed. Sometimes, the violence came right to their Saigon neighborhood. Once, a body was left at their front door.

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