Imperial's Kevin Meehan aims to be best of the best - Boston.com
Walking into one of Imperial Cars’ three dealerships in Mendon, isn’t like walking into any ordinary dealership. At Imperial’s Ford dealership, customer service awards and the coveted Ford Presidential award for customer satisfaction hang from the ceiling like World Series pennants. At the company’s Chrysler dealership, an antique car hangs from the ceiling. Most impressive is Imperial’s Chevrolet dealership, where David Ortiz’s Red Sox jersey hangs in a glass case. Imperial’s owner Kevin Meehan, was the winning bidder on that jersey— $175,000, which was donated to the Jimmy Fund. Meehan, who founded Imperial in 1991, still remembers his first attempt at selling a car. It was at his father’s used car dealership in Worcester, where he worked washing cars on nights and weekends while in trade school. He was looking at a 1975 blue Chrysler Cordoba,” Meehan recalls. ” Despite that first failure, Meehan stuck with the car business and opened his first dealership, Chevrolet, several years later. Meehan likes to entertain his customers, so each of his dealerships has a theme, all of them reflecting Meehan’s interests: sports, auto memorabilia, and rock ‘n’ roll. Source: www.boston.com
