Crash Champions
The Firm
Crash Champions calls itself the largest founder-led multi-shop operator of collision repair in the United States, with more than 650 locations across 38 states, plus a LUXE and EV certified line for highline repair. It was founded in 1999 as a single Chicago repair center by Matt Ebert, which makes the firm itself the consolidation thesis in person: one shop grown into the trade's biggest independent network.
Its acquisition pattern is the part a searcher should study. Where the public consolidators headline group purchases, this firm's own releases name one independent shop at a time. There is a longtime Cheyenne body shop that took it into its 38th state, a single Kirkland center in Washington, and a Miami operation closed alongside a Montana shop in the same year-end push. Those are the exact businesses an individual buyer would otherwise bid on.
It also runs a dedicated sell-your-shop page, which is the other half of the same fact: a searcher in this trade meets the firm twice, first as the rival whose offer shapes what a seller expects, and later as the likeliest door out.
Read again in September 2026, the cadence has changed: roughly thirty acquisition releases in 2024, none in 2025, and one in 2026, a Southaven, Mississippi shop that August, while the openings continued month by month. The firm counts more than 650 repair centers across 38 states. The sitemap opened that evening holds forty-five more shops bought between September 2022 and December 2024, each dated by the closing day its body prints, and then a twenty-month gap with no purchase release until Southaven.
What It Buys
Chicago, Illinois. Independent collision shops bought one at a time across 38 states by an operator that calls itself the only founder-led national one: the rival bidder on single-shop deals and a standing exit.
Selling to them one day, or watching them as the other bidder? Track them in the Contact Book so the relationship has a next-touch date.
Confirmed Deals
49 deals traced to announcements by Crash Champions, 2022 to 2026, newest first. Firms that announce every deal show a fuller run here than firms that report acquisitions as quarterly counts, so read this as the evidence that clears the bar rather than as the firm's whole record.
- Key Collision of Southaven · August 31, 2026
A repair center in Southaven, Mississippi, the firm's eighth in the state and its one purchase announced in 2026.
- Charles Barker Automotive Collision Center · December 24, 2024
A collision repair business in Virginia Beach, Virginia, a luxury and EV-certified center, effective on its announcement.
- Big Sky Collision Center · December 16, 2024
A collision repair business in Bozeman, Montana, closed in the same December release as South Motors.
- South Motors Florida · December 16, 2024
Miami collision operation, closed alongside Big Sky Collision of Bozeman in the same year-end announcement.
- Lennox Auto Body · December 13, 2024
Longtime Cheyenne collision shop whose purchase took the operator into its 38th state.
- Juanita Collision Center · July 26, 2024
Single-shop collision center in Kirkland, Washington.
- Auto City Collision Center · July 12, 2024
A collision repair business in Manchester, New Hampshire, closed on the Friday the release names.
- Pro Body Shop and Frame Works · June 19, 2024
A collision repair business in Thomasville, Georgia, announced as completed.
- Liles Collision · June 7, 2024
A collision repair business in Ocala, Florida, finalized June 7 under a June 10 header.
- J&J Auto Body · June 7, 2024
A collision repair business in Pocatello, Idaho, finalized June 7 under a June 11 header.
- Mitchell Collision Repair (two shops) · May 31, 2024
A collision repair business in Land O' Lakes and Belleview, Florida, two locations closed on the Friday the release names.
- Modern Auto Body · May 17, 2024
A collision repair business in Frederick, Maryland, closed May 17 under a May 20 header.
- Bavarian Body Works (two shops) · May 10, 2024
A collision repair business in Marietta and Atlanta, Georgia, two Atlanta locations closed on the Friday the release names.
- DC Autocraft · April 26, 2024
A collision repair business in Burbank, California, closed April 26 under a May 8 header.
- Mitchells' Crash Repair, Flawless Auto Body and 3 Way Auto Body · April 22, 2024
A collision repair business in Great Falls, Montana, three shops closed together, effective April 22.
- Family Motors Auto Body · April 12, 2024
A collision repair business in Bakersfield, California, effective April 12 under an April 22 header.
- Buddy Foster Collision and Towing · April 9, 2024
A collision repair business in Zephyrhills, Florida, effective on its announcement.
- Premier Auto Body (three shops) · April 8, 2024
A collision repair business in Bend and Redmond, Oregon, an Oregon three-shop operator, announced as completed.
- Fender Mender Collision · April 5, 2024
A collision repair business in Encinitas, California, closed April 5 under an April 17 header.
- Brady's Auto Body · April 1, 2024
A collision repair business in Vancouver, Washington, effective April 1.
- Addison Collision Repair · March 25, 2024
A collision repair business in Twin Falls, Idaho, effective March 25.
- Hoffman Auto Body · March 25, 2024
A collision repair business in Boise, Idaho, announced the same day as a Twin Falls shop.
- Performance Collision Centers (nine shops) · March 1, 2024
A shop in Virginia, South Carolina and Georgia, a nine-shop regional operator closed on the Friday the release names.
- Adams Collision (four shops) · December 8, 2023
Four Chicago-area shops in Harvard, Lake in the Hills, McHenry and Huntley, Illinois, finalized on the Friday the release names.
- Queen City Auto Rebuild · November 10, 2023
A collision repair business in Redmond, Washington, closed on the Friday the release names.
- Auto Craft Collision Centers (three shops) · October 27, 2023
A shop in Daphne, Fairhope and Gulf Shores, Alabama, the firm's entry into Alabama, closed on the Friday the release names.
- Ideal Auto Collision · August 4, 2023
A collision repair business in Hollywood, Florida, closed on the Friday the release names.
- Autobahn Collision Center · July 28, 2023
A collision repair business in Studio City, California, finalized on the Friday the release names.
- European Collision (four shops) · January 27, 2023
A collision repair business in Nashville and Atlanta metro areas, four shops closed January 27 under a January 30 header.
- Crocketts Premier Auto Body · January 24, 2023
A collision repair business in Pinole, California, announced as finalized.
- Stymeist Collision Centers (four shops) · January 20, 2023
A collision repair business in Placerville and Jackson, California, four shops closed January 20 under a January 23 header.
- Gengras Collision Center · January 17, 2023
A collision repair business in East Hartford, Connecticut, announced as finalized.
- T Masters Collision Center · January 6, 2023
A collision repair business in Hammonton, New Jersey, closed on the Friday the release names.
- Capitol Body Shop (four shops) · December 22, 2022
A collision repair business in Jackson metro, Mississippi, four Jackson-area shops.
- Andrade Motorcar · December 14, 2022
A collision repair business in West Haven, Connecticut, the firm's thirty-sixth state, its own release dated December 14.
- Millennium Auto Body · December 13, 2022
A collision repair business in Denver, Colorado, announced as a strategic acquisition.
- Advanced Auto Body, Classic Collision Works and Advanced Collision · December 12, 2022
A collision repair business in Hagerstown, Gaithersburg and Beltsville, Maryland, three Maryland shops in one release.
- 1st Class Auto Body and Seattle Automotive (seven shops) · December 8, 2022
A collision repair business in Seattle metro, Washington, five shops and two shops added in one release.
- George V. Arth & Son · November 29, 2022
A collision repair business in Oakland, California, a historic Oakland shop.
- Molle Toyota's collision repair center · November 21, 2022
A collision repair business in Kansas City metro, a dealer's collision center, the dealer keeping the dealership.
- Harold's Auto Body Shop · November 17, 2022
A collision repair business in Rincon, Georgia, in the Savannah metro, dated by its dateline.
- DAA Auto Body Centers (two shops) · November 15, 2022
A collision repair business in Spokane, Washington, two Spokane shops.
- Collision King (three shops) · November 8, 2022
A collision repair business in Lubbock, Texas, a three-shop West Texas operator, dated by its dateline.
- A Gresham collision repair center · October 19, 2022
A collision repair business in Gresham, Oregon, an unnamed shop on Southeast 202nd Avenue, the third in the Portland metro.
- Louie & Son's Body Shop · September 29, 2022
A collision repair business in Charleston, South Carolina, announced the same day as an Illinois shop.
- Lakewood Auto Collision · September 27, 2022
A collision repair business in Bradenton, Florida, dated by its dateline under an October header.
- Nationwide Auto Body · September 26, 2022
A collision repair business in Schaumburg, Illinois, dated by its dateline under a September 29 header.
- Thomas Collision Center (two shops) · September 21, 2022
A collision repair business in Valdosta, Georgia, two Valdosta shops.
- Blake's Auto Body and Pan American Collision Center (twelve shops) · September 21, 2022
A collision repair business in Northern California, twelve shops in two purchases announced together.