When there are no major repairs, there are projects, such as the custom lumber sawing rig that takes up a considerable chunk of space at the front end of the shop. I went out and looked at his operation, and at what he needed, and I came back and did some figuring and put it all in a drawing and a contract. There are no fancy engineering drawings. Much of it is etched in the gray matter beneath the Brickyard 500 ball cap, waiting for more welding and machining. Some operations might have spent a lot of computer design time and a whole lot more effort and money just to get it on paper.
Computers are good, but someone has to do the work.
I've got nothing against computers, but it's gotten to where people let computers do their thinking. There is a computer, of sorts, beneath that ball cap. And sometimes it hasn't been able to compute the right stuff, Juricich admits. Well, it took me a while, because I'd always thought of him as a little guy . . . Then, about five years ago, I realized I was wrong.