I never thought I would camp, any more than Harley Sitner ever thought he would own an auto shop. For years, Sitner's own Westfalia Vanagon had taken him to a Seattle mechanic. But the business was about to close, and Sitner, a former Microsoftie and entrepreneur who logged years in the tech trenches in Bay Area and Seattle startups, saw an opportunity. "They were literally closing their doors," Sitner said. "I was like, 'No, there's a real business here.' " Three years and thousands of repaired and refurbished vans later, his business, called Peace Vans, has become such a successful operation - he has up to 100 vans on the Sodo-district lot at any given time - that he's...
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