🚗 Automotive & Transport: 8 Businesses For Sale 🚗
Cars break. That is the entire investment thesis, and it has not failed in a hundred years. The average vehicle on American roads is now over twelve years old, which means more repairs, more parts, and more revenue for whoever owns the shop. This issue collects every automotive and transport deal in our 68-deal pipeline, including one priced at 1.8x cash flow with the SBA math worked out for you below. Reply to this email with the deal number(s) and we will send you the details.
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How this issue works: deal numbers carry over from our master pipeline (Issues #221 through #228), so if you already replied about a deal, the number is the same. Note the numbers that interest you and reply to this email with them. Most of these businesses are off-market and appear nowhere else, and a real person on our team reads and answers every reply.
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In this week's issue:
🛠️ Featured: Two-Location Tire & Auto Repair Group (Middle Georgia) - $2.2M combined revenue, open to offers
🚙 Featured: Used Auto Sales Exchange (Orangevale, CA) - $2.1M revenue, $150K asking, ASAP
🚗 6 more automotive deals including a transmission specialist, a collision center, and a motorcycle parts operation
🧮 Deal Math of the Week: we run the SBA numbers on deal #18 line by line
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#57 - Two-Location Tire & Auto Repair Group
📍 Location: Cochran and Hawkinsville, GA 🏷️ Asking Price: Open to offers 🆔 Business ID: Confidential 💰 Cash Flow: ~10% margins 📈 Gross Revenue: $2,200,000 📊 Business Type: Tire Sales & Automotive Repair, Two Locations 🏠 Ownership: Owner Operated 🔥 Two Locations! | $2.2M Combined Revenue! | Owner Relocating, Wants Offers!
✅ Key Highlights:
• Multi-site operations are worth more than the sum of their parts because overhead, purchasing, and management already scale across both.
• $2.2M in combined revenue in two established Middle Georgia communities where the shop is the shop.
• A 10% margin on tire and repair work sits below what disciplined operators achieve. Pricing, labor rates, and parts sourcing are all fixable levers.
• The owner is relocating and asked for offers rather than naming a number.
🚀 Growth Opportunities:
• Fleet accounts with local municipalities, schools, and agriculture operations are the standard margin upgrade in rural markets.
• A third location is a realistic 24-month move once the first two are systematized.
📌 Summary:
Two shops, seven figures of revenue, and a margin gap that an operator can close. This is a buy-and-improve story, not a buy-and-hold one.
🔒 Confidentiality: Financials available upon NDA.
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#63 - Used Auto Sales Exchange
📍 Location: Orangevale, CA 🏷️ Asking Price: $150,000 🆔 Business ID: Confidential 💰 Cash Flow: Disclosed in diligence 📈 Gross Revenue: $2,100,000 📊 Business Type: Used Vehicle Sales / Exchange 🏠 Ownership: Owner Operated 🔥 Asking Is 7% of Revenue! | Licensed and Operating! | Sacramento Metro!
✅ Key Highlights:
• The asking price is 7% of annual revenue. Used auto is inventory-heavy and low-margin by nature, so understanding the working capital picture is the entire diligence exercise.
• A dealer license, a lot, and a customer flow already exist. Building that from zero in California takes months.
• Orangevale sits in a growing suburban corridor with steady used-vehicle demand.
• The owner wants to move quickly, which is where the price comes from.
🚀 Growth Opportunities:
• In-house financing and service attachment are the two levers that turn thin used-car margins into real ones.
• Online listing discipline and reconditioning standards typically add several points of gross per unit.
📌 Summary:
A low entry price on real volume. Ask hard questions about inventory financing and floor plan before you get excited, and we will help you ask them.
🔒 Confidentiality: Financials available upon NDA.
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🧮 Deal Math of the Week: Running #18 Through an SBA Structure
Deal #18 below is a transmission repair shop asking $450,000 on $250,000 of cash flow. Here is roughly how that finances.
• Equity injection: SBA requires a minimum of 10%, so about $45,000 down.
• Loan amount: roughly $405,000 over a 10-year term.
• Annual debt service: at approximately 9.75%, about $63,500 a year.
• Cash flow after debt: $250,000 less $63,500 leaves about $186,500 before your own salary.
• Coverage: roughly 3.9x debt service coverage, comfortably above the 1.25x lenders look for.
Those are illustrative figures on owner-reported numbers, not a quote, and every one of them moves with verified financials and your lender's terms. But it shows why trades and auto deals at low multiples clear underwriting so easily. Reply and we will run this same math on any deal in the pipeline.
🕵🏼♀️ Direct-From-Owner Pipeline: Automotive
Every listing below came straight through our seller intake. These owners contacted us directly; none of these are broker listings. Figures are owner-reported and verified during diligence. Reply with the deal number(s) to request an introduction.
🔩 Repair & Service
#17 - Full-Service Auto Repair Shop
📍 Northern New Jersey
🏷️ Asking: $650,000 | 💰 Cash Flow: $200,000 | 📈 Revenue: $900,000
📝 Established independent shop at 3.25x cash flow in a dense repair market. Retirement sale.
#18 - Automotive Transmission Repair Shop
📍 Randolph, New Jersey
🏷️ Asking: $450,000 | 💰 Cash Flow: $250,000 | 📈 Revenue: $600,000
📝 Transmission specialists command premium labor rates because few shops still do the work. 1.8x cash flow; see the Deal Math above.
#19 - Auto Repair & Collision Center
📍 Greater New Orleans, Louisiana
🏷️ Asking: $200,000 (asset sale) | 💰 ~22% margins | 📈 Revenue: $750,000 - $900,000
📝 Repair plus collision work, structured as an asset sale. Retirement driven.
#47 - Auto Paint, Body & Towing Company
📍 Gonzales, Louisiana
🏷️ Asking: TBD | 📈 Revenue: $2,000,000
📝 Collision repair plus a towing division, which feeds its own body shop. Health and age driven sale, 3-6 months.
🏍️ Parts, Sales & Specialty
#20 - Auto Parts & Accessories Retailer
📍 Southeast US
🏷️ Asking: $400,000 | 💰 Cash Flow: $150,000 | 📈 Revenue: $1,100,000
📝 Parts and accessories retail at 2.7x cash flow. Owner ready to transition.
#49 - Motorcycle Parts & Restoration Services
📍 Melbourne, Florida
🏷️ Asking: Open to offers | 💰 Cash Flow: $50,000 | 📈 Revenue: $400,000 - $500,000
📝 Niche motorcycle parts and restoration operation with an enthusiast customer base. Retirement sale, ASAP, open to seller financing.
🤌🏼 Learnings Of The Week
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We will come back to you with the details, the financials, and next steps. Most of these businesses are off-market and are not listed anywhere else, so this newsletter is the only place you will see them.
Next in the vertical series, Monday: Food, Beverage & Hospitality, ten deals including a cafe asking less than its annual cash flow.
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