Garage Mahal, Man Cave, or Dream Garage

Do you want a dream garage? Thought so. Well, it's not out of reach. If you have a one-car or a six-car garage, your dream garage is possible. If you don't have a big budget, get creative. Stickers and decals, brand and model emblems, and license plates and hubcaps all make good decorations in the garage. Flooring options include epoxy paint from the local big box store to professionally applied polyaspartics. There is something for every budget. I'm sure you can look around and find items of interest all around you.

Racedeck, Swisstrax, G-Floor...and epoxies

The floor is the first thing to address when doing your garage. There are many flooring solutions, so do your homework. Epoxy paints work well if you invest time in the prep. Allow a week to prep, paint, and time to cure before parking on it. Interlocking tile products from Racedeck and Swisstrax, the industry leaders, are a solution that is quick and has endless creative patterns. The floor pictured is Racedeck. A simple pattern that was installed in a few hours. Another product, G-Floor, is a vinyl mat that rolls out covering the floor just where you park or wall-to-wall. It's pre-cut in various sizes. I recommend the thickest of the G-Floor products.

If your floor is reletively new and has no stains, give the epoxy products a look. For older floors or floors with cracks and stains, look at the interlocking tile or mat products. Do your homework. There is plenty of information available online.

Surf City Garage Road Trip destroys grime...and adhesives!

I have this V8 powered RX7 that I hoped would be more of a track car than a street car, but it hasn't been like that. It's a convertible that does not have a convertible top anymore. It has a serious roll bar and an aggressive stance. But it's useless when there is rain. I recently attended the Hot Rod Power Tour and got caught in the rain. Anticipating this, I brought a roll of duct tape and a sheet of plastic. When the need arose, I created a top with the plastic. Problem is I used the duct tape to secure it to the body. Yeah, you know what's left when you remove duct tape. The sticky remains do not come off easily. Several people made suggestions on what to use. The lacquer thinner suggestion was scary! So I had a bottle of Surf City Garage Road Trip with me for the road grime I expected to deal with. I tried this on the duct tape adhesive and it worked! SCG Road Trip is a gel. Let it sit, rub it gently, and off comes the junk stuck on your car. Keep in ming it removes your wax also. So you'll have to wax again.