Banks passed. His grandfather borrowed against the family home. A decade later, Justin Strickland’s stay-in-your-car service model processes more than 1.7 million oil changes a year - and offers a sharp lesson in scaling a boring business without making the customer wait.
CRC Industries began with one corrosion inhibitor mixed in a Pennsylvania garage. More than six decades later, its real product is a carefully engineered answer to an expensive question: what keeps a machine working instead of waiting?