Richard Rawlings Net Worth: How Rich Is Car Builder In 2023

Richard Rawlings is a well-known custom car maker and was the owner of Gas Monkey Garage. He’s made a net worth of about $20 million during the course of his career, which we’ll cover in detail below.

	Richard Rawlings Net Worth
Name	Richard Ray Rawlings
Nickname	Triple R
Birthday	30 March 1969
Age	53
Gender	Male
Height	6’ 08”
Weight	180 lbs
Partner	Katerina Rawlings
Kids	No
Parents	N/A
Siblings	John Rawlings, Daphne Rawlings Kaminski
Nationality	American
Profession	Businessman, Car builder, Entrepreneur, Reality TV Star
Net Worth	$20 million

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What is Richard Rawlings’s Net Worth?

Richard Rawlings has a net worth of about $20 million. He owns Gas Monkey Garage and is the main star and host of several car-themed reality TV shows.

He’s owned food and music venues in several locations in Texas and licensed his Gas Money brand for an energy drink. He’s been married and divorced several times, but he does not have any kids.

Richard Rawlings’s Early Life

Richard Ray Rawlings was born 30 March 1969 in Fort Worth, Texas. Richard has not revealed the names of his parents, and he’s only said that his mom left them when he was young and his dad raised them. He has a brother, John Rawlings, and a sister, Daphne Rawlings Kaminski.

His dad took him to auto shows, where his love for cars started to develop. He was 14 when he bought his first car, a 1974 Mercury Comet, and started fixing it. He bought, fixed, and sold several cars in high school.

He drove a 1977 Pontiac Trans Am while in high school. He graduated from Eastern Hills High School in 1987 but did not continue to higher education.

Richard Rawlings’s Personal Life

Richard Rawlings married Karen K. Grames in 1993 and divorced her in 1994. He married Suzanne Marie Mergele in 1999 and divorced her in 2009. Richard and Suzanne remarried in 2015 and divorced again in 2019.

Richard Rawlings is currently married to Katerina Rawlings; they were married in 2020. Even though he’s been related and married four times to three different women, he does not have any children.

He lives in Dallas, Texas, and runs his multiple businesses from there. He lives in a massive house in Dallas on a 1.46-acre plot only four miles from the Gas Monkey Garage.

Richard Rawlings’s Weight, Height, and Measurement

Richard Rawlings is 6’ 08” tall and weighs about 180 lbs. He keeps relatively fit but is 53 years old as of 2022, and the years start to show. Richard wears a mustache and goatee that is salt and pepper, emphasizing the salt. He has tattoos on both his forearms.

Career: How Much Does Richard Rawlings Make?

Richard Rawlings had a lot of jobs; he was a paramedic, a law enforcement officer, and a firefighter. He started an advertising and printing company called Lincoln Press in 1999.

Before selling Lincoln Press, Rawlings started the Gas Monkey Garage, an automotive shop developing designs and restoring and creating cars for many customers worldwide. He met automotive design prodigy Aaron Kaufman while both were working on the TV series documentary Overhaulin’.

Rawlings gave Kaufman the chance to work on his designs, and together, they went and created the Discovery Channel series Fast N’ Loud, which ran from 2012 to 2020.

Fast N’ Loud focused on finding derelict classic cars from all over the USA and restoring and customizing them in the Gas Monkey Garage, which they sold to customers worldwide.

Aaron Kaufman left the show in 2017 due to creative differences, and while they don’t work together, Rawlings and Kaufman are still on friendly terms.

In 2017, Rawlings became the co-host of the Discovery Channel show Garage Rehab, along with Russell Holmes and Chris Stephens. They travel the USA and overhaul struggling automotive shops.

Rawlings opened the Gas Monkey Bar N’ Grill in Northwest Dallas in 2013 and opened a second location at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport in 2014. Later the same year, Gas Monkey Live was opened, a venue for live music.

He also started Richard Rawlings’ Garage restaurant in Harker Heights, Texas. Still, the pandemic hit his venues hard, and he closed down most of his locations in 2019 and 2020. In 2019, the Gas Monkey brand was licensed to a line of energy drinks.

Rawlings has appeared as a guest on many TV shows; he was a guest on The Joe Rogan Experience, Jay Leno’s Garage, and many others.

An urban legend says Richard Rawlings and Dennis Collins broke the 1979 Cannonball Run time in 2007 from New York City to Los Angeles at 32 hours and 51 minutes.

Since then, the transcontinental record has been narrowed to 25 hours and 39 minutes. Rawlings has also participated in many rallies and races, winning the Gumball 3000 and The Bullrun.

Rawlings has an excellent online following: his Twitter account has 339K followers, his Instagram has 2.6 million followers, and his Facebook page has 3.11 million likes.

Final Word: Is Richard Rawlings a Millionaire?

Yep, Richard Rawlings is a self-made millionaire with a net worth of about $20 million. He made most of his money as the owner of Gas Monkey Garage, an automotive shop for restoring vintage and classic cars. He collaborated closely with Aaron Kaufman on the TV series Fast N’ Loud and is the co-host of Garage Rehab. He’s been married four times to three different women.

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