The brightly lit showroom floor still needs a few chairs for waiting customers. The fresh drywall needs a few finishing touches. But when a reporter stepped inside Stanley Ford’s dealership at 8825 Mallard Street near the airport, Tony Stanley was already arranging a test drive of a full-sized Ford van.
Juneau’s new Ford motors dealership is kind of open for business.
Owner Tony Stanley said in an interview that he hopes to have his dealership open this weekend or early next week. However Stanley Ford has already sold “quite a few cars,” Stanley said. And the dealership has already signed cars up for warranty and recall work.
Stanley said the opening of its Juneau location was delayed by a few weeks due to his recent accidental injury and due to the size limitations of the dealership location.
Stanley said the dealership’s temporary 10,000 square-foot building is about half the size needed for a full-service dealership.
“I can’t do everything I want to do at that building,” Stanley said.
The smaller footprint gave Ford Motor Company pause in approving the location. Stanley said he plans to expand his current location or build anew.
“A nice, well-lit lot and nice crisp showroom to put customers at ease,” Stanley said of the company’s plans.
Stanley said he waited to order his cars until the 2013 models were available.
"We'll see the 2013s bubbling in over the next few months," Stanley said. Eventually the dealership will offer electric and hybrid vehicles to fit with of Juneau's hydroelectric power and limited road system, he said.
Once the doors are open, Ford owners with warranty or recall work to be done can come in and schedule an appointment. Stanley was able to bring on Ford Certified Mechanics including Dave Wall. Wall opened Evergreen Motor Works in early 2010 after Skinner Ford closed.
Stanley has owned a Budget Rent-A-Car location in Juneau for more than a decade. The Stanley family, Jose and Emelia Stanley, have owned rental car businesses and car dealerships around the state.
“Alaska is our home,” Stanley said, “and we are in the car business. From Fairbanks to Juneau.”
Stanley owns and operates various locations of Budget Rent-A-Car, Driven Auto Body, Stanley Ford in Kenai, Stanley Chrysler in Soldotna and a Nissan dealership in Fairbanks.
Stanley recently launched a tire- and oil-change and quick repair business called Quick Lane
“We started about a month ago and it has taken off,” Stanley said. He said he plans to bring a Quick Lane and a Driven Auto Body repair to Juneau.
Driven Auto Body is a Green Star certified business.
One of the major reasons Stanley brought Ford back to Juneau, was because of the past Ford employees in Juneau. Dave Wall was the key factor. Wall will manage Stanley Ford.
For more information, call Stanley Ford of Juneau at 523-8500 or visit http://stanleyfordjuneau.site.nlmkt.com/About-Us.aspx. For more information about Driven Auto Body visit www.drivenautobody.com.
• Contact reporter Russell Stigall at 523-2276 or at russell.stigall@juneauempire.com.
Comments (20)
Add commentGood luck, fellas!
Good luck, fellas!
They'll do fine....
There are plenty of people who will never buy a vehicle from Government Motors---Never!!!
Agreed, I will by a Toyota
Agreed, I will by a Toyota before I purchase a GM, or Chrysler product.
rotlmao
MADison and snagger!!! Only you two could turn a feel good local business story into a bile inducing diatribe.
You are a hoot. Better stop buying gas...Big Oil gets massive tax breaks and giveaways, especially in AK. Better stop driving on those "guvment" roads! Better stop buying any groceries shipped in on Jones Act protected shipping and "guvment" supported airports and airlines.
...and that is just a small portion of the "guvment" supported industries. Nevermind that "guvment" bails out the banks and the rich with nary a peep from you. As soon as it comes to a union business, you get all up in arms about the big guvment!
Madison and Snagger, if you
Madison and Snagger, if you don't want them you can send me your PFD checks. I'm sure you two would never ever take money or benefits from a socialist government like Alaska.
Ford yes
I too used to be a Chrysler fan. We are moving to a private car company for our next new car purchase... that would be Ford!
Great news for Juneau !
Dave Wall and his crew are highly trained mechanics. They know their way around vehicles .
This will be a long term business that brings good paying, full time jobs to Juneau.
Congradulations !
Thanks,Stanley!
Madison
You say you are so concerned about our country, why do you want to by a foreign made car over an American made one?
Made In the USA
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Mississippi, Tupelo, Mississippi – Toyota Corolla The facility will be named "Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Mississippi, Inc."[6]
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, Inc., (TMMK) is located in Georgetown. Engine manufacture - 2GR-FE and 2AR-FE. Vehicle manufacture and assembly - Camry, Hybrid Camry, Avalon and Venza.
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas, Inc (TMMTX) is located in San Antonio. Vehicle manufacture and assembly - Tundra & Tacoma.
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana, Inc. (TMMI) is located halfway between Princeton and Fort Branch. Vehicle manufacture and assembly - Sequoia, Sienna & Highlander.
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Alabama, Inc. (TMMAL), is located in Huntsville. Engine manufacture 1GR-FE, 1UR-FE and 3UR-FE. Engines mostly for TMMTX and some TMMI.
Toyota Motor Manufacturing West Virginia, Inc. (TMMWV), is located in Buffalo. Engine manufacture 2GR-FE, 2ZR-FE and 1AR-FE.
Madison has no problem
accepting money from government sources, especially when he uses it to try and end those sources. On the other hand, if anybody to the left of his accepted boundary does the same thing with, say, PFD money, he calls them hypocrites. So it's okay for him to accept money from programs to which he inherently objects, but it's not okay for "liberals" to accept PFD money while at the same time objecting to many of the actions of the fossil fuel industry.
Toyota
No matter how many place in the US Toyotas are made they are STILL not an American made car. Most of the money goes overseas to Japan. It is not an American company!
The amount of money pumped
The amount of money pumped into OUR economy from that foreign company puts American manufactures to shame. How many Americans are employed by them I wonder... Looking at four of my friends vehicles in the lot right now, the three 'American' cars are made in Canada/Mexico. The one 'foreign' car made in Kentucky. Try again billb. Oh yeah, those companies pay taxes as well.
Madison and Snagger
These two would compalin about anything.Good luck with the yuor new business.
Tom, bad info
Pretty lame to cite a few plants to try to infer that Toyota is making its cars in America. It is accurate that they have some plants here, but they produce vastly more cars sold in the us outside of North America. And they are only one of many companies selling cars here from oversees that makes their vehicles outside of North America. What's more, Toyota makes most of their engines and transmissions in Japan, ships them and assembles here, but most of the value of that car is in those components which aren't made here.
There's a bunch of links out there. Here is one. Get your facts straight, tom.
http://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/rulemaking/pdf/AALA/2012_AALA_Alpha_9-6...
Ive got to..... F O R D ....
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Fix Or Repair Daily
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Glad to see another business in town. Good luck!
The Money goes to Japan?
As of 2012 Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky is the automaker’s largest facility in North America, though its U.S. holdings have expanded dramatically. Kentucky is now the #3 vehicle-producing state in the country, behind only Michigan and Ohio.
There are more than 100 auto-supplier plants around the state, creating thousands of jobs. Five hundred North American suppliers provide 85% of the parts for Georgetown production. All in all, Toyota’s suppliers and vendors account for about 12,000 additional jobs. I worked for 1 of those suppliers before moving to Juneau last year.
Nearly 7000 full-time “team members” are employed at the Georgetown facility, and they represent the majority of Kentucky’s 120 counties.
http://www.toyotageorgetown.com/pdfs/haywood.pdf
Toyota’s total investment in Kentucky: a whopping $5.4 billion. Its philanthropic give-back to Kentucky counties where its team members live: a substantial $40 million-plus.
TMMK has the capacity to produce 500,000 vehicles and engines a year, Kentucky-made and Kentucky-proud. That’s about 2000 vehicles a day, at full capacity.
http://www.toyotageorgetown.com/pdfs/haywood.pdf
I guess all of those US citizens working for Toyota in Kentucky send their checks to Japan.
All Engines Made in Japan?
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky will invest $31.9 million on increasing production of its 4-cylinder engines by 100,000 per year at its Georgetown, Kentucky plant, creating 86 new jobs.
"This engine production increase and the several announcements before it reflect our growing optimism for an improving North American market," said Steve St. Angelo, executive vice president of Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America.
The Georgetown plant at 1001 Cherry Blossom Way in Georgetown currently assembles engines for the Avalon, Camry, and Venza models, built in North America. The added engine production will supply engines for those models as well as RAV4 production in Canada. The increase in production will raise the manufacturing complex's total employment to approximately 6,700 workers and overall plant investment to more than $5.96 billion.
http://www.areadevelopment.com/newsItems/5-8-2012/toyota-georgetown-kent...
Anyone want to buy my Toyota?
Anyone want to buy my Toyota? I want to buy a Ford from Mr Stanley.
86 jobs! Wow!
Now there is some damn good research, hug em. You cite Toyota and a town chamber of commerce in Kentucky. You ignore the fact that Toyota makes most of its parts in Japan and that lexus (a toyota sub) and significant 'new' economy models like Yaris (a growing Juneau greenie favorite) are 100% Japanese. Now add Kia, Nissan, Mercedes, Volvo, and the other foreign brands around the world that are making most of their cars overseas.
The bottom line is that if you want to support American workers buy ford, Chrysler (America) and even GM (although I am no fan of their bailout).
I'd push a dodge or a ford before you'd catch me driving a damn Toyota or Nissan.
I use to buy American when
I use to buy American when the replacement parts were cheaper. Now that they are the same price and the American companies(built in mexico and canada) are far inferior. I buy the Asian products, no one gives me fail buys.
I use to buy American when
I use to buy American when the replacement parts were cheaper. Now that they are the same price and the American companies(built in mexico and canada) are far inferior. I buy the Asian products, no one gives me fail buys.
Cars are only as good as the mechanics
that help keep them running. I bought my Toyota 12 years ago and only trust ONE mechanic to service it because he has "Integrity". I will never take it to the Toyota/Honda dealer I purchased it from. I don't trust car dealerships at all. They only want to make a sale and then want nothing more to do with you. Hopefully Tony is a different kind of owner/car salesman, but only time will tell.