Neighbors: ‘Everything has fallen into place’ for Nolensville couple and their auto repair shop | Business

Not very long just after he and his spouse opened an automobile mend store in Nolensville, Jay Vivrette greeted a customer who seemed somewhat familiar.

He could not spot her correct absent, but the more they spoke the additional he recognized why he understood her, even if only vaguely.

“She came in just this early morning,” Vivrette claimed not long ago at J & Organization Car Maintenance, the store he and his wife, Stacy Vivrette, started out doing the job on very last August and opened Jan. 2. “I did not acknowledge her, but the more I bought to chatting to her, I started looking at the relationship. She was an previous Nolensville buyer. There have been a couple outdated-time Nolensville consumers who have occur in, and that is been very amazing.”

Precisely, Vivrette was referring to repeat prospects of sorts, individuals who had their autos and vehicles serviced in the identical building the place J & Organization is now. That was back in the 1980s and ’90s when Nolensville was however a tiny, sleepy burg and people experienced operate done on their automobiles at Thomas Brothers Vehicle Mend.

The compact-planet ingredient of the Vivrettes’ story is that Jay operates his business enterprise in the exact same place where he utilized to get the job done aspect-time whilst a scholar at Web site Higher College in the late 1980s. It was also the spot in which Jay would dangle out with his best mate, Invoice, son of Harry Thomas, who had owned and operated Thomas Brothers with his brother, Larry, till an health issues slowed Harry down and led to the closing of the company in 1997.

In the meantime, Jay Vivrette had previously began a vocation in auto restore following graduating superior college in 1990. He instantly went to work at Crown Ford in Nashville, the place he dealt with primary duties even though studying the ropes of car upkeep.

“When I went by means of substantial college, I experienced no intention of carrying out this,” Vivrette explained of doing the job as a mechanic. “I was going to go to college or university and be an engineer. But I bought a career at Crown Ford,” and it took off from there.

He carried that early knowledge to Crutcher’s Automobile Repair service in Franklin, and later put in 15 a long time at Christian Brothers in Franklin. Vivrette returned to Crutcher in 2013 and served as typical supervisor until eventually destiny came contacting in the type of Melissa Thomas, widow of Harry Thomas. She required to see the Vivrettes provide back the setting up that the moment housed Thomas Brothers Auto Mend and work it likely ahead.

“Jay was information at Crutcher’s and experienced intentions on finishing out his job there, and the notion of having a store of his possess at 50 yrs previous appeared silly,” Stacy reported. “He arrived house [from visiting with Melissa and hearing her offer for renting the building] and did some soul exploring. We prayed about it and we agreed that we would give it our ideal shot. 

“We began renovating the developing in August and established the wheels in movement to go comprehensive steam forward, and from that instant it was just like this was what we were intended to do all together. Every little thing has fallen into position.”

As the Vivrettes worked on getting the developing prepared and accomplishing all the paperwork necessary to launch a business enterprise, they also studied on a identify for the spot. J & Company helps make great feeling, according to Stacy.

“Jay would not be the place he is today had he not surrounded himself with excellent people,” she mentioned, pointing out the mentors and bosses he experienced at vehicle restore stores, suppliers he came to know by the many years, and the prospect that came from Melissa Thomas. “I’ve told Jay you are here since of the organization you hold. We chose to honor the people today that set us in the place by naming it J & Enterprise. We are here due to the fact of them.”