Still a team small enough that every buyer talks to a founder at some point.
Texanna Used Car started with a simple complaint: dealer inspections you couldn’t actually trust on cars old enough to hide their secrets. Thirteen years later, that’s still the whole business.
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In 2011, marque historian Texanna Marsh and restoration engineer Tomas Reyes both walked away from the same botched dealership handoff — a “numbers-matching” car sold without so much as a chassis-tag check, missing its original engine entirely. They started Archive to do the one thing that dealership hadn’t: verify provenance, in writing, before the money changes hands.
Every car that carries our name passes the same checklist — no exceptions for price point.
Most of what goes wrong after a sale was visible beforehand — it just wasn’t looked for. We built the checklist we wished someone had used on us.
Texanna Used Car starts certifying and reselling vintage cars out of a rented bay in Culver City.
Archive partners with independent inspectors and marque historians in six states, ending in-house-only inspections for good.
The showroom moves to its current location on Checotah.
Still a team small enough that every buyer talks to a founder at some point.