Gearz Episodes: Ladder Bar system & Test Drive

Ladder Bar system & Test Drive

Season: 3 | Episode: 5

If you've been around cars and trucks very long, you know that vintage, nostalgia, and rat rods are very popular. The question is, how do you make a nostalgia-style car with leaf springs hook up like a modern drag car but not lose the vintage look? Simple...you install a ladder bar system! But how do you keep the leaf springs from binding you ask? Ah...there is a special way to do it, and if you want to find out what it is...you need to catch this episode of GearZ. Then it's out on the road to test it out as Stacey shows you just how much fun you can have with a nostalgia-style vehicle. Would somebody please bail him out of jail?!?!

Products Used in this Episode

Product	Vendor
16" double bend shifter handle (p/n MSL6B2) & 8-ball shift knob (p/n SK6885)	LOKAR, INC.
BF Goodrich Silvertown tires	COKER TIRE CO. INC.
Cold Saw & Belt Grinder	DAKE
Floating Housing Mounts (p/n C2030)	SUMMIT RACING EQUIPMENT
Glasspack muffler & exhaust	Cherry Bomb Performance Exhaust
Hand, Power, & Pneumatic Tools	CORNWELL TOOLS
Ladder Bar (p/n C2005)	SUMMIT RACING EQUIPMENT
Ladder Bar Crossmembers (p/n C2019)	SUMMIT RACING EQUIPMENT
Millermatic 252 mig welder & Spectrum 625 Xtreme plasma cutter	MILLER ELECTRIC MFG. CO.
Single Ribb wheels & "slick" tires	RADIR WHEELS, INC.
Vehicle tie-down straps	SUMMIT RACING EQUIPMENT