
A grandfather’s $35,000 home-equity gamble gave a rejected lube technician one shot. Justin Strickland answered with a national service business built around a scarce American luxury: getting an errand over with.
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.