And now Alsip has been given the Christmas present of a lifetime. Police found the old Mustang at the Department of Motor Vehicles in Salinas last September. Apparently a man attempted to have it registered after owning it for 23 years. Sounding not at all suspicious, authorities began to investigate whether the car had been stolen. "It had been out of the system for so long that it came back with no file," according to the California Highway Patrol. "The officer did some digging and found out the car was stolen in 1986." And so 28 years after its disappearance, the Mustang was returned to its rightful owner, who plans to have it fixed up and start driving it again.