Milton Auto Parts

What Milton Auto Parts does

Milton Auto Parts, legally Butler Auto Recycling and family-owned by Jim Butler, is a used auto parts retailer and automotive recycler founded in 1977 in Pensacola, Florida. The company operates two physical locations in the Florida panhandle — headquarters at 6401 N Palafox St, Pensacola, and a warehouse/retail site at 5505 Industrial Blvd, Milton — and serves collision businesses, auto mechanic shops, dealerships, and individual consumers, with a stated emphasis on owners of older vehicles seeking affordable DIY replacements. It claims an upstream vehicle yield of over 10 million vehicles per year, providing access to a large inventory pool of recycled OEM components.

Core offerings include an online parts search inventory system, used motors and engines, used transmissions, optional extended and lifetime warranties, a pre-owned vehicle sales line, and a vehicle donation program. Distribution is multi-channel: walk-in retail at both Florida locations, a 24/7/365 eBay storefront (butlerautorecyclinginc) with nationwide shipping, and direct phone sales. The company holds the ARA Certified Automotive Recycler (CAR) Gold Seal certification (2023) and memberships in the Automotive Recyclers Association (ARA) and the Florida Automotive Dismantlers and Recyclers Association (FADRA). Pricing is quote-based per part, with warranty options sold as add-ons. No proprietary technology stack, mobile app, or AI capability is disclosed; the enterprise technology footprint is a WordPress website with a basic parts search, an eBay marketplace integration, and a WordPress-driven automotive blog. Revenue is not publicly disclosed, and operations are privately held by the Butler family with no external institutional investors.

Name

Milton Auto Parts

Legal name

Butler Auto Recycling

Website

https://miltonautoparts.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1977

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Milton Auto Parts (Butler Auto Recycling) is a family-owned, Pensacola-based automotive recycler founded in 1977, selling used OEM auto parts, engines, and transmissions to collision shops, mechanic shops, dealerships, and individual consumers through two Florida locations and a 24/7 eBay store.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Used Auto Parts Retail

NAICS

Automotive Parts and Accessories Retailers (44133), Motor Vehicle Parts (Used) Merchant Wholesalers (423140)

SIC

Retail-Auto & Home Supply Stores (5531), Wholesale-Motor Vehicles & Motor Vehicle Parts & Supplies (5010)

akta.pro primary industry

Used Auto Parts Recovery & Resale (Salvage/Yard Parts, Rebuilders) (EUAIAJAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Automotive Parts & Accessories Online Retailers (CRAFADAK)

Keywords

• Used auto parts
• Automotive recycling
• Recycled OEM parts
• Used engines transmissions
• Auto salvage

Headquarters

HQ city

Pensacola

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Used Auto Parts Sales: The primary revenue stream is the sale of quality used OEM auto parts and components sourced from recycled vehicles. Sales occur through physical retail locations, online eBay storefront, and phone orders. The business emphasizes major cost savings compared to new parts while maintaining quality, with extended and lifetime warranty options available to customers.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Milton Auto Parts (Butler Auto Recycling) sells quality used OEM auto parts and components harvested from recycled vehicles, including used motors/engines and used transmissions, primarily through two physical retail locations in Pensacola and Milton, Florida. The company also operates a 24/7 eBay storefront for nationwide sales and accepts phone orders with staff-assisted part location services. Optional extended and lifetime warranty programs are available for purchase on parts, and the business additionally offers used vehicles for sale and a vehicle donation program.

Product overview

Milton Auto Parts (Butler Auto Recycling Milton) operates as a used auto parts retailer and automotive recycler. The core offering is a parts search/inventory system enabling customers to locate recycled OEM auto parts including motors/engines and transmissions. The company supplements its parts business with used vehicle sales, vehicle donation programs, and optional extended/lifetime warranties. Parts are available for both walk-in customers at their Milton and Pensacola locations and online buyers nationwide via their eBay store.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Used Motors / Engines

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• IAA (Insurance Auto Auctions / RB Global): Major salvage and total-loss vehicle auctioneer owned by RB Global. Comparable as an upstream supplier of wrecked vehicles to independent recyclers; shapes the inventory pool Butler competes for.
• Copart: Largest U.S. online salvage vehicle auctioneer; an upstream supplier of total-loss vehicles to dismantlers like Butler. Comparable because it feeds the same end-of-life vehicle supply chain that Butler relies on for inventory, though Copart does not sell parts directly.

Direct peers

• Pull-A-Part: National self-service and full-service used auto parts retailer with multiple U.S. yards. Operates the same used-OEM-parts-from-salvage-vehicles model as Butler with comparable DIY and trade-shop customer base, but at much larger geographic scale.
• Car-Part.com: Online marketplace and inventory-search platform aggregating thousands of recyclers' used auto parts inventories. Directly comparable because it competes for the same DIY and shop customers searching for used OEM parts and offers the kind of digital search Butler's website only partially replicates.
• Pick-n-Pull: Self-service auto dismantling and used parts retailer with yards across the western and southern U.S. Directly comparable business model — salvages end-of-life vehicles and sells used OEM components to consumers and repair shops.
• U-Pull-And-Pay: Self-service used auto parts chain operating in multiple U.S. states. Same recycling-and-resale model as Butler Auto Recycling, focused on affordable used parts for consumers and mechanics.

Broad incumbents

• RockAuto: Large online auto parts retailer primarily focused on aftermarket parts but increasingly adjacent in the parts-search space. Comparable to Butler as a digital auto-parts purchase destination, though RockAuto sells new aftermarket rather than used OEM components.
• LKQ Corporation: The largest North American provider of recycled and aftermarket auto parts, with broad OEM-recycled inventory, sophisticated logistics, and warranty programs. Directly comparable to Butler's core used-OEM-parts business but operates at vastly greater scale and geographic reach.

Regional players

• NWP (Northwest Part Pros): Independent regional auto recycler serving the Pacific Northwest with used OEM parts and nationwide shipping. Comparable business model and mid-size scale to Butler but operating in a different U.S. region.
• Allied Auto Parts (Florida): Independent Florida-based recycled auto parts supplier serving both consumers and B2B collision/repair shops. Comparable regional recycler competing in overlapping Florida customer segments with Butler.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/milton-auto-parts

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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