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Floor It

RockSolid Floors’ new Grey Garage Coat offers several benefits over epoxy, vinyl flooring, and even traditional polyurea. As a one-part polyurea product, it has a virtually unlimited pot-life, allowing installers as much time as they wish to finish their flooring projects with no waste. Garage Coat is 20 times more durable and 98 percent more flexible than epoxy floor paints, ensuring that it won’t crack or peel, while being resistant to salt, oil, gas, and other harsh chemicals. Its ultralow VOCs make it environmentally friendly, too.

Declare Independence
Speedway Motors’ new bolt-in IFS crossmember for ’35-40 Fords allows the average enthusiast to install a proven Mustang II–style front suspension using only basic hand tools. The innovative crossmember design employs interlocking boxing plates to support the framerails from the inside, distributing the load and providing the ultimate in strength and rigidity. Mounting bolts pass through both the frame and boxing plates, tying all the components together into a reinforced assembly that won’t twist or flex.

Installation can easily be completed in a weekend using little more than a socket and wrench set, jackstands, hand drill, tape measure, and a few clamps. No welding or specialized fabrication skills are required. Once installed, the adjustable upper spring seats allow precise tuning of the vehicle’s ride height. Optional bolt-in engine mounts (available for small-block and LS Chevy, or small-block Ford V-8s) make engine upgrades easy, too. For more information, contact Speedway Motors at (800) 979-0122 or www.speedwaymotors.com.

Finer ’Liner

One of the most beautiful steering wheels to ever grace a Ford interior has to be the highly sought-after Crestliner wheel, and now you can stop combing swap meets for a beat-up one, thanks to Juliano’s. This new Crestliner wheel is a beautiful copy of the original ’49-50 Ford accessory, and unlike the original, it’s machined from solid aluminum so it will never crack.

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A Frame
Wintec Fabrication now offers this super-low Model A chassis for fenderless hot rods, designed with a 3-inch rear kickup on a lengthened 122-inch wheelbase for a better ride. The chassis bolts together using basic hand tools and comes with all of the necessary welding already completed. Standard features include small-block Chevy engine mounts, tube shocks up front (not friction shocks), Corvair steering, a dual reservoir master cylinder with brake pedal, and a rear Panhard bar.

Stop, Turn, and Split
Juliano's new LED third brake light is more than just a super-bright brake light. The two LED sections function as signal lights as well, a great added-value feature. Because it's divided into two sections, it's also a natural for any car with a split rear window. Two versions are available, with either a fixed bracket for package tray mounting, or an adjustable bracket allowing the light to be mounted on a split window divider.

Lost and Found
Who doesn't love a hot rod "barn find" story, or a tale of an old survivor car? Lost Hot Rods is an entire book of such encounters, and we can't think of anyone more suited to penning it than Pat Ganahl, whose nationwide network of contacts helped make it possible. Ganahl tells us of old hot rods and customs that have been in storage for decades, suddenly to resurface. While a few famous cars are included, the book mainly showcases little-known cars that have made it to the present day without being parted out or wrecked.

Hot Tub
Wintec Fabrication's new T-tub body virtually doubles the interior space of a T-bucket, so it's easy to carry necessities like a cooler and chairs, or other family members. Available in a variety of package configurations, including the roller you see here, the new body comes with a full fiberglass floor and removable transmission tunnel, and an operating door on the passenger side is optional. It's made of hand-laid fiberglass featuring a smooth gelcoat finish that requires minimal time for prep and paint.

Big Is Beautiful
Superior Glass Works has your rodding comfort in mind and offers several fiberglass street rod bodies with enough space to stretch out and really enjoy the ride. The 1932 Ford three-window coupe features a 2 1/2-inch-deeper cabin by kicking out the base of the back window, while maintaining the stock body dimensions and proportions. Two other big '32s offered are a stock height and a 2-inch chopped Vicky. The '27 Ford roadster (aka "The King T") has 4 inches added to the depth of the cockpit.