Benson, a former New York Giants center, said he originally offered Jones use of a car for a year if he said promised never to burn a Quran. “I just didn’t think that was a good thing for our country right now.”

A New Jersey car dealer plans to keep his word after offering Florida pastor Terry Jones a new car if he promised to not burn a Quran.

Car dealer Brad Benson made the offer in one of his dealership’s quirky radio ads, which focus more on current events than cars.

But he was surprised when a representative for Jones called to collect the 2011 Hyundai Accent, which retails for $14,200.

“They said unless I was doing false advertising, they would like to arrange to pick up the car,” Benson recalled.

At first he thought it was a hoax, so Benson asked Jones to send in a copy of his driver’s license. He did.

Jones, of Gainesville, Fla., did not burn a Quran on Sept. 11 this year as he had planned, but told The Associated Press on Thursday that the offer of a car was not the reason, saying he learned about the offer a few weeks later.

He said he plans to donate the car to an organization that helps abused Muslim women.

“We are not trying to profit from this. We are not keeping the car for ourselves,” Jones said by telephone from California, where he was taping television appearances.

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