Reading an article in Garage Style magazine featuring Leno’s custom-built garage in Burbank, Calif., Randy Nelson, president and owner of Swisstrax Corp., saw the garage flooring and decided he had to help out with setting up a better garage floor 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 Leno’s “mechanical genius.” Juchli was kind enough to grant Swisstrax a chance to meet with Leno and install some car pads in the Big Dog Garage.
Jay, Bernard and the team loved the fact that Randy brought his three elementary-school aged children to help on the floor pad installation, which confirmed the ease of installation with Swisstrax tiles. The garage team and Leno were also thrilled with the floor pads themselves (Swisstrax’s Pearl Silver and Slate Grey Ribtrax were used in a “parking pattern” design).
Leno was particularly surprised that a plastic floor tile could withstand the weight of a 6,000-pund car – the tiles in fact can hold up to 40,000 pounds in rollover and have up to 5100 pounds in compressive strength.
The Swisstrax Ribtrax car pads are currently used to display Leno’s collection of Duesenbergs 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.
Randy summarized what this installation means to Swisstrax, “Many competitors have been at this for years and yet Swisstrax was chosen over and above all other tile suppliers and any type of paint or epoxy coatings. This is huge. We know we have the best product on the market, but to get Jay’s seal of approval is yet another confirmation of Swisstrax being recognized as the best modular floor tile in the world.”