About Earnhardt Auto Centers

Tex Earnhardt and his sons, Hal and Jim, are the most recognized personalities in the southwest from having built one of the most successful automobile organizations in the United States. Tex Earnhardt started his first Ford dealership in Chandler, Arizona in September of 1951. From its humble beginnings of selling a few Fords a month, Earnhardt Auto Centers did nearly one billion dollars in retail sales and sold over 27,000 retail units last year.

In 1986, Tex noticed that many of the good folks he’d previously sold were having credit problems – yet no banks wanted anything to do with them. This meant those good people had to go to “buy here pay here” lots and buy cars that were questionable in quality. Tex wanted to give his customers a better option. He invested a small fortune and created the Mr. Ed Department. Earnhardts became the first franchised dealer in Arizona to arrange financing and provide new vehicles to people with credit problems. The Mr. Ed Department is now recognized as the number one special finance department in the World and has arranged over 75,000 loans for good people with bad credit.

The Earnhardt organization currently sells 9 different automobile brands: Ford, Dodge, Nissan, Honda, Toyota, Scion, Hyundai, Mazda and BMW. The dealerships are located in the cities of Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert, Avondale, and El Paso, Texas.