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hen cousins Chris Sanders and Mark Sanders were ready to open their own automotive repair shop in 2014, they sought advice from a trusted neighbor who ran the Eubanks Esso Service Center off Highway 15-501 near Bynum. “We stopped in to visit with [Charles] Whitaker, who had been running the shop for about 30 years,” Chris says. “He told us he was looking to retire and that he would sell the business to 72
CHATHAM MAGAZINE
Cousins Chris Sanders and Mark Sanders teamed up to start their own car service business, named one of the county’s best automotive services/repair shops.
SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2022
us. It was a great location on a busy highway – only about two miles from my house and five miles from Mark’s. We both loved the old-school look from the ’50s.” Chris says he and Mark worked for about six months before they hired their first employee. Eight years and about a dozen employees later, Sanders Automotive Service outgrew the original