Ness Auto Sales and Service

Lodi, United States

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Specialties

We are an Independent Automotive Service Center featuring quality ACDelco Parts. We offer vehicle maintenance, service & repair. Feel free to call or come by our location anytime.

History

Established in 1972.

When Richard (Tack) Ness was 14 years old he worked at the local pharmacy. The pharmacist always asked him if you would go to school to become a pharmacist, but day after day Tack knew that wasn’t what he wanted. On his way home from school he walked by the local gas station and dreamed of someday owning it. After graduating from High school he went into the army. Upon returning home he went to work at the gas station he once dreamed of owning. After a few years at the age of 20 he was given the opportunity to buy into the gas station. When he went home to tell his mother he was going to buy a business that was at that time called Thistle and Brown, she cried on his shoulder and told him he would never make it and he shouldn’t do it. Like most children Tack didn’t listen to his mother and bought it anyway. A few years later he purchased the other half of the business from Pat Brown and was joined in partnership with two of his brothers Don and Charlie in 1973. At that time they own

Meet the Business Owner

Craig N.

Business Owner

I graduated from technical college and joined the business as a technician. Over the years I’ve worked in all aspects of the dealership from the Service Department, Parts Department, office, and Sales. In January 2009 I bought in as a partner into the business when Don retired. I am currently still in business with our founder and father Richard «Tack» Ness, and his brother Charles Ness.