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: a longtime Cheyenne body shop that took it into its 38th state, a single Kirkland center in Washington, 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.
What It Buys
Chicago, Illinois. Independent collision shops bought one at a time across 38 states by the trade's largest founder-led operator: the rival bidder on single-shop deals, and a standing exit that courts sellers directly.
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
3 deals traced to announcements by Crash Champions, 2024, 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.
Nothing newer has cleared the bar in 19 months, against a registry whose newest confirmed deal is July 21, 2026. A gap past 12 months can mean the firm has slowed, or that it has stopped announcing; treat it as a prompt to check its own newsroom before assuming either.
- South Motors Florida · December 26, 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.