Tatman's Collision Rapair

摘要

Have you ever wondered what happens to shop owners who sell their businesses? Where do they go? What are they doing now? Perhaps more importantly, what leads these folks to put their shops on the market and are they happy now? Hello. I'm Barney Slifer, your host. Welcome to the fourth part in our five-part series of "Bondo Tales." WE'RE NOW ENTERING THE LAST LEG OF OUR JOURNEY. OUR SEARCH TAKES us to Champaign, Ill. —a pleasant Midwestern city of approximately 63,000 citizens. Let's sit down and have a talk with two of Champaign's residents, both of whom shared a prominent place within the local collision-repair community. Tom Sellers (coming in part five of our series) certainly fit my story criteria, for after a long tenure as a body shop owner, he sold and moved on to other business ventures. Paul Tatman also handily fits what I was looking for, despite the fact that today, he's found himself back in the body shop business! Not only were Sellers and Tatman local competitors, they also happen to be very good friends. Given today's increasing levels of negative polarization between body shop owners, I find this aspect to be most productive from my own charmed point of view.