# Crash Champions

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.

- Website: https://crashchampions.com

## 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.

## Confirmed Deals

Deals traced to announcements, 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.

- South Motors Florida (2024-12-26): Miami collision operation, closed alongside Big Sky Collision of Bozeman in the same year-end announcement. Source: https://crashchampions.com/company/press/crash-champions-continues-strong-close-2024-finalizes-acquisitions-florida-and
- Lennox Auto Body (2024-12-13): Longtime Cheyenne collision shop whose purchase took the operator into its 38th state. Source: https://crashchampions.com/company/press/crash-champions-expands-38th-state-acquires-lennox-auto-body-cheyenne-wyoming
- Juanita Collision Center (2024-07-26): Single-shop collision center in Kirkland, Washington. Source: https://crashchampions.com/company/press/crash-champions-expands-washington-acquires-juanita-collision-center

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