Randy Douthit is a man who loves to race cars, but that’s not all he does. He owns Judy Justice and has been in the business for 50 years. He was born in 1963 and has always had a passion for cars. When Randy was 12, he had already wrecked his first car – a ’66 Ford Mustang. Today, he owns one of the most successful auto businesses in California.
Randy Douthit started racing cars with his friends at an early age. The engines were powerful, and they helped him feel like he was at home again since he grew up on a farm where they always used to drive trucks and tractors around the property. Randy already had a lot of automobile experience when he started driving in 1961. He had won various races, but in 1965, he was also featured in the racing magazine “Car and Driver.”
He attended high school in Los Angeles and quickly learned that you can take your car anywhere on wheels, so that was the start of his passion. He attended college at San Jose State University and where he received enough knowledge about the automobile industry to get into it – albeit as an employee instead of a contractor. Randy’s first car company was called “Tijuana Speed Shop,” He started as an employee for his boss; he started working as an area rep for one of the distribution companies and ended up buying his own distribution company in 1984. One of the first things he did was to introduce computer-aided design (CAD) to his business because, at that time, they didn’t have software that could run remotely on a PC. His first computer, which became known as “The View-Master,” was a huge investment costing $7000.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Randy Douthit started to experience financial problems because of the state’s oil crisis. But he still could sell his company through a private sale in 1991 and bought another company called “Magna Auto Parts,” an auto parts distributor based out of San Jose. Randy’s strategy for this company was to build it so that he would have total control over every management aspect and that any salesperson could visit customers’ homes.