Kerrigan Advisors Represents on the Sale of Tommie Vaughn Ford in Houston, Texas to Vaughan Automotive
Sale of a nearly 70-year Houston landmark Ford dealership owned by the Janke family marks Kerrigan Advisors’ 453rd franchise sold since the firm’s founding and its 20th franchise sold in Texas since 2023, the most of any buy/sell advisor in the industry
Kerrigan Advisors represented the Janke family in the sale of Tommie Vaughn Ford, a Houston landmark dealership, to Vaughan Automotive, a Boerne, Texas-based group led by Shawn Vaughan. The sale represents Kerrigan Advisors’ 453rd franchise sold since the firm’s founding in 2014, and its 20th franchise sold in Texas since 2023, the most of any buy/sell advisor in the industry. It also marks the firm’s fourth announced transaction in a top US growth market in six weeks, following transactions in Charlotte, North Carolina, Atlanta, Georgia and Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Founded in 1957 by Tommie Vaughn, Tommie Vaughn Ford is one of the most recognized Ford dealership names in Houston, operating from the city’s Greater Heights neighborhood and owned by the Vaughn and Janke families for nearly 70 years. Located five miles from downtown Houston, it is one of only two Ford dealerships inside Houston’s 610 Loop, home to roughly 480,000 residents, and supports a base of nearly 35,000 Ford units in operation. Tommie Vaughn served as President and Chairman of the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo and was named one of the nation’s most distinguished auto dealers by TIME magazine. Following Vaughn’s passing in 2005, the dealership’s ownership transitioned to his daughter, Jeanie Vaughn Janke, and her husband, Jim Janke, who was named a TIME Dealer of the Year Nominee in 2018.
