Meet the Sill-TerHar Ford Family

Jack joined his dad's dealership in 1970 and was quickly shown to be a natural in the automotive business. His success at building a wonderful family and business stems from an innate ability to make friends and positively influence those around him. His close relationship with the manufacturers has led him to having a unique perspective on the automotive industry. On his down time, he is an avid golfer and loves to travel. More than anything, he is proud of what Sill-TerHar has become, and values that his entire family is involved in its continued growth. He is pictured here with his wife Penny. 

Greg's a Broomfielder through and through.  He joined the family in 2002 as a manager. He's known for his gruff exterior, though most of us know that if you don't let it phase you, you can get to his soft, nougaty center. As any well-versed leader, he commands respect and returns affection. He's a lot like Batman. He loves the outdoors and his fifth wheel that he takes "camping."

Jon feels like he's been at Sill-TerHar since at least 2015, apparently it's been since 2013.  He generally sits quietly in back taking great care of his fleet customers. Jon is an avid golfer and loves watching his boys play baseball.  He's an excellent father, no one watches their kids hurt themselves in sports better than Jon. I mean, you should see his Facebook page, it's all broken arms, or busted lips, of course it really just proves that they're giving it their all, just like their dad.  On a side note, Jon prints things to the printer across the hall and ALWAYS leaves it on there. He's so bad about it that now, whenever I walk by and see something on the printer I hand it to him, and a soild 73% of the time, it's his!

Sean said I can simply do my PT thing. This brings me such joy. I mean, I do it anyway, but to have permission is thrilling! First, some things about Sean. He went to motorcycle mechanic school. I've talked to him about cars and engines extensively, and I don't think he remembers a thing they taught him. Fortunately his job is liaising between customers and mechanics, so no one cares if he can fix loose rear rod bearings on a 1965 Harley Panhandle. (yeah, I googled that, no idea what it means). Sean loves sports, particularly baseball, which I can attest to firsthand as I was on the fall league softball team with him and his passion runs DEEP. There's only one guy who threw his bat further than Sean every time he flied out to left. I also learned new vocabulary words that I'm not allowed to say ever again according to my wife. I thought they were British, but they're just very naughty (and apparently not anatomically correct). He loves to be outdoors as much as possible. Although I think that may be an overstatement as he grumbles and grumps every time he needs to walk between buildings when it's 20 degrees and snowing sideways. So maybe he enjoys being in certain outdoor situations when the weather is suitable. Finally Sean loves to golf! Every time a new course opens locally, Sean gets very excited. He's rapidly running out of places that he's allowed to golf, because of the passionate thing, and all those amazing words... I didn't even know celery could BE a bad word.

Nick likes cars.  Part of me just wants that to be his entire biography, but it doesn't really tell you anything about him.  He started with us in 2024 and is a superstar in our Ford service drive.  No one treats customers as well as Nick, except for maybe everyone else.  We only hire superstars to be in our Ford service drive, and Nick is definitely one of them.  He really stands out by being just like everyone.  

 Jeff is officially old now.  He has 2 hearing aids because apparently repeatedly banging your head on the ground makes it hard to hear, but he's still very good with customers, and he doesn't say "huh?" nearly as often.  He loves his motorcycles so much that he broke his wrist a couple of months ago, because honestly, if you're not breaking anything, are you really trying?  Recently Jeff has threatened to get his pilot's license.  He would be a truly amazing pilot, although his belief that you need to break things to be doing stuff makes the concept a bit more unsettling.  Realistically, we all love Jeff being around here, but if I hear about a small plane that is buzzing the tower at DIA with the pilot on the radio insisting he wants to race a 737, I'll know exactly why Jeff didn't come to work that day.  

TJ joined us in January, 2019.  When TJ was asked to share about himself, he talked all about how he plays golf.  I've seen video of him playing golf, and I have to say, that if it were me, I wouldn't tell people I play golf.  The video I saw had him swinging as hard as he could, and hitting one of his playing partners right in the stomach.  The guy was standing behind him.  If you've never seen Charles Barkley swing a golf club, I would strongly recommend going to youTube and checking it out.  It's a pretty close match to TJ's swing.  He also said he likes to go to Coors Field, but he phrased it as a question, which had me scratching my head.  I don't know if he goes to Coors Field.  Then I realized, he probably means, he thinks he's at Coors Field, but it may just be the ball fields at the Broomfield Industrial Park Sports Complex.  Apparently one day he sat there for 4 hours screaming at Nelson Arranado to hit the ball before realizing that he was actually watching a flock of geese eat.  Fortunately his confusion over whether he's been to Coors Field doesn't impact his ability to match a person with just the right car, and since that's what he does every day, we've deemed that more valuable.

Scott Peterson has been here since 2015.  He has a deep passion for cars, in fact his current Subaru WRX has 5 turbochargers that he installed himself, although 4 of them are mounted on the trunk like a spoiler.  Liking cars doesn't make you good at modifying them.  He loves his family (I had to put that there because I'm nice.).  When I asked him what his hobbies are, he said he does NOT skydive.  It really wasn't a very good answer as it didn't tell me anything about what he likes to do.  When he was asked about his love for shearing sheep, the giant grin and silence spoke volumes.  My guess is that he loves to knit.  Or he finds naked sheep as funny as I do.

Mychal spells his name wrong. It's pronounced like Michael. Just so you know. He's from Pennsylvania originally, Erie, which would explain why he plays ice hockey "right now". I assume the "right now" is an acknowledgement to the fact that life moves quickly and knees can only ice hockey for so long. Or maybe it was just because it's cold out and he doesn't play in the summer. Beats me, he was vague. He told me that he has 3 younger sisters. I looked at my notes further and there are no details beyond that. Just 3 younger sisters. He played semi-Canadian pro baseball which is pretty cool. I don't know what a semi-Canadian is, but maybe it means that some of their games were in America? Or maybe just some of the teams were made up of Canadians? That would pretty much just make it baseball though. Finally he has 2 rescue dogs. It took me about 5 minutes to discover that the rescue dogs aren't rescue dogs at all, but rather dogs that he rescued from a shelter. I kept trying to get him to tell me stories of going into the mountains to find lost hikers or skiers, or to tell me about the intense training that it must take to get a dog ready, but nope, they're just dogs. Like, the normal kind of dogs where you can't tell what they are, but they're definitely dogs.

Ryland said, "I don't have a biography on the site."

Austin Fox came and joined Sill-TerHar a year after COVID first hit. So expectations for him were very low. I asked him about the most unique thing that ever happened to him and he told me a story that involved a colostomy bag. Needless to say, it's not a great story for a bio. He couldn't come up with anything else. So let me tell you about this odd, and surprisingly skinny new car manager. I have never seen anyone eat more sugar, not even my 8 year old would be able to digest the levels of sugar that Austin is able to shrug off. During the summer, it is very common for him to order a pint of Baskin Robbins ice cream, and finish it off in an hour or so. This isn't a terribly impressive feat until you consider that he does it 5 days a week, and he can't weigh more than 140 pounds. The other day I looked at the ice cream section in the grocery store and the button fired off my pants, cracked the glass door, and embedded itself in a carton of Rocky Road. I really liked those pants. Austin has a remarkably charming way with customers, he's kind and courteous, but for some reason refers to all the salespeople as Oompa Loompas. If you ask where that comes from, he'll hop in his boat on the chocolate river and quickly row away. After many many years in the car business, Austin fits right in with our family here at Sill-TerHar, and if you catch him on the right day, you may even see him wearing his purple top hat.

Bobby has been with the dealership for long enough that I can't remember a time without him.  A long-time local, he moved from sales, to finance, and now to management. We're all very proud he made it to management, but also a little surprised.  I've promised him that as long as we work together, I'll never let him forget his little mishap at the company golf tournament, so many years ago.  Fortunately Bobby survived, and now he's in charge of other people.

Jeff joined Sill-TerHar in 2007.  He worked his way from salesman to finance manager to selling oil rigs to sales manager.  One of those was not with Sill-TerHar. Climbing the corporate ladder is easy for Jeff as he is 5 foot 19 inches tall, so he's pretty much already at the top before he starts.  Do you wonder what Jeff looks like when he's been surprised? He looks like this.

Robert came to Sill-TerHar in 2005 via Hawaii and he brought the famous island personality with him. The only thing Robert does better than making friends is golfing. His prodigious skills make him very popular among those playing in charity golf tournaments.  Also, if you want to make your car buying experience extra special, ask him for his chili recipe, it's wonderful.

Favorite Car:

1962 Lincoln Continental

Ty got here in 2016, and now helps those with credit troubles get back on their feet and set a path for a better financial future.  When I asked him what was interesting about himself he said he loves the outdoors and his family. I told him that wasn't nearly interesting enough, and asked if he'd ever killed someone.  He said no. So... Good for him! I do know that he makes world renowned honey. It may only be dealership renowned. (OK, I've made some calls, turns out that a couple people know he makes honey, but they agreed it was very good local honey.)

Gigi is the ray of sunshine that makes coming to work worth it, she is tasked with making sure that all of our customers are always as happy as they can be. She truly treats each one as though they're family... I'm realizing as I type this that having my intern take notes about employees is more effective when it's not Gigi's son.  Gigi loves doing triathlons and has completed some impressive events, like the Ironman for women, which is somehow not called the Ironwoman, that seems like an easy fix.  I can say from experience that, on her bike, she's a cadence rider.  That is to say that she can ride forever, but she's really slow up hills.  When we rode to work together on ride to work day I thought she was being nice on the hills so I didn't feel bad not keeping up, but it turns out she just goes slow sometimes.  Don't tell her I said this, but she really is amazing with customers after they've purchased a car, and we're lucky to have her.

Pronounced Crys, Crystal prefers a shortened name at work, because she tends to be quite emotional here.  So when we see Crys and think she's misspelled cries, we know to be kind.   I kind of want to just post her info as she's written it, but I'm afraid our Loaner Car / Call Center would be so inundated by people wanting to give her a hug, we wouldn't be able to do regular business.  Her bio starts pretty normal, Crys likes to read, citing Stephen King and Steven Koontz as her favorite authors.  No, I read that wrong, Dean Koontz.  Steven Koontz wrote Flight of the Intruder, not to be confused with Flight of the Valkyries.  I went to highschool with his step-son.  That's neither here nor there, just a note that popped into my head.   Crys is inherently an introvert, which is why we have her dealing with more people in a single day than anyone else at the dealership.  In order to relax after a hard day of being kind to literally everyone, Crys drops the façade, snuggles up with her furbabies, and watches a relaxing horror film.  Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, and Runaway Bride are her very favorites.  She's very put off by people who lie and expects people to treat her with the same kindness she treats them.  This is where things get a little dark.  Her family is her top priority, and always will be, and she "will do what needs to be done to take care of them"...  I assume there's a John Wick sort of threat in there, but I can tell you I'm not going to test it.