Jay Leno’s Garage Floor Choice
Indio, Calif. â Reading an article in Garage Style Magazine featuring Lenoâs custom-built garage in Burbank, California, Randy Nelson, President and Owner of Swisstrax Corporation, saw the garage flooring and decided he had to help out with setting up better garage floor pads to compliment the renowned car collection.
With the assistance from Don Weberg of Garage Style Magazine, Randy was able to set a meeting with Leno and part of the garage team. He first met up with Mr. Bernard Juchli, a native Swiss, and Lenoâs âmechanical geniusâ. The two hit it off as Randy is fluent in Swiss German and was able to speak with Bernard in his native language as well as French. Juchli was kind enough to grant Swisstrax a chance to meet with Leno and install some floor pads in the Big Dog Garage.
Nelson was impressed with Lenoâs knowledge on his whole collection and the fact that Bernard, George, Jim, Per and others on the garage team built the cars from the ground up and turned them into what is seen as one of the finest collections around.
Jay, Bernard and the team loved the fact that Randy brought his 3 elementary school aged children to help on the floor pads installation, which confirmed the ease of installation with Swisstrax tiles. The garage team and Leno were also thrilled with the floor pads themselves (Swisstraxâs Pearl Silver and Slate Grey Ribtrax were used in a âparking patternâ design). The floor pads are available in a variety of colors and designs and range form single car pad size to over 2000 sq.ft.
Leno was particularly surprised that a plastic floor pads could withstand the weight of a 6,000 lb. car âthe tile floor pads in fact can hold up to 40,000 lbs. in rollover and have up to 5100 lbs. in compressive strength.
The Swisstrax Ribtrax car pads are currently used to display Lenoâs collection of Duesenbergs (one of Jaysâ prides) and Bugattis, and their Ribtrax Anti-Fatigue tiles were used in pads around machines in the workshop, which was appreciated by workers who stand for long periods of time around the larger equipment that requires constant surveillance.
How does Swisstrax plan to ensure Leno is a satisfied customer for life? As noted by Nelson, âOur best image is the quality of the products we supply. Swiss Engineered and Made in the USA. The personalities at Swisstrax are easy going and willing to help wherever necessary. We care about our products and our clients. We back every tile we sell!â
Randy summarized what this installation means to Swisstrax, âMany competitors have been at this for years and yet Swisstrax was chosen over and above all other tile floor pads suppliers and any type of paint or epoxy coatings. This is huge. We know we have the best floor pads product on the market but to get Jayâs seal of approval is yet another confirmation of Swisstrax being recognized as the best modular floor pads tile in the world.â
Swisstrax also works directly with Avis, Shelby Automobiles, Hendrick Motorsports and the U.S. Armed Forces, and have also been endorsed by Indy racing legend Bobby Unser.
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