About Us in Littleton, NC

Automotive Excellence Since 1973!

Family-Oriented—State-of-the-Art Facility

Buddy Isles Sr. started Buddy’s Speed World on Main Street, but he took a few years off to serve our country in the Army 82nd Airborne. Upon his return in 1973, with the support of the community and a $3000 loan from BB&T, he grew his business. He leased a larger shop space just outside of Littleton on 158E and named it Buddy Isles Automotive. In 1982, he built a new shop with one bay behind his home back on Main Street in Littleton. Between 1982 and 1998, he sold and moved his home off Main Street to make room for 9 more bays at that location. He added a bay every couple of years. His two daughters and his son worked over the years in and around the shop, but it was his son, Buddy Jr, that decided to make it a career. Buddy Jr. began apprenticing under Buddy Sr when he was 12. Although he knew from very early on that he wanted to follow his father’s footsteps within the automotive industry, Jr. decided to embark on a once in a lifetime opportunity with NASCAR during 2015. He soon returned home realizing the family business was where he belonged. It wasn’t long after he returned to town that he met his now wife, Morgan in 2016. Shortly after, the couple began on the journey of a lifetime.

In December of 2017 the couple, stepped up to take over the family business and expanded it from a 10 bay shop to a 55,000 sq foot facility. The current location, now known as Buddy Isles Tire & Automotive, is a full service mechanical company offering a wide range of services on any make or model vehicle, boats, RV’s, tractors, and anything in between. 

Since moving into this location, Morgan and Buddy Isles Jr have taken the family business to new heights with no plans of slowing down any time soon. In 2018, the couple opened Buddy Isles Collision as their second official business endeavor to better serve the automotive related needs of those in Littleton, NC and surrounding areas. This fully functioning collision center is capable of everything; from hard-hit accident repairs to return your vehicle to just-like-new condition, all the way to full-blown classic car restorations. The couple plans to grow this company into its own building to neighbor its sister company, Buddy Isles Tire and Automotive. 

A bit later, in 2020, the Isles duo embarked on another business opportunity by purchasing a pre-existing parts store in town, and moving it into their 55,000sq ft facility. B&M Parts and More is a Carquest Independent store aiming to provide rapid part availability to its sister companies, Buddy Isles Tire and Automotive and Buddy Isles Collision, but to also meet the needs for individual part/product needs. In the store, you will find a variety of parts for nearly any vehicle, RV and/or marine parts for the lake crowd, all the way to basic camping necessities and even racing parts or fuel! This place really encompasses everything you could need, if not, rest assured it can be found