About Tom Frederico

I am a former USAF K-9 Officer, Georgia State patrol Officer, and Deputized DEA agent. But my true love has always been with cars. So I left the life of Law Enforcement to pursue a career in Motorsports.

I started off by buying the love of my life, a 1996 Black Impala SS back in 2000. Joined a couple of clubs and started to make this one of the best show cars possible. Had it repainted and did a little work here and there. Then came the time to replace the carpet. Found out that GM stopped selling the carpet, so I contacted a bunch of vendors until I found one that could make a carpet my way. Turned out that there were several thousand other people that had the same problem. We perfected the carpet to have a factory fit with a factory type rubber backing which no other vendor or manufacture had available to the public. I started a company called Impala SS Carpet.com. After 4 years and adding several products we have a customer base that is in the thousands. All for one vehicle with a production number of only 65,000. My motto is if it is not the best and good enough for my car then I will not make it or sell it.

The first year we had the car looking so good it was on display in the SEMA Show. After the SEMA Show put the car in almost every show I could find. It won 40-50 First Places and a hand full of Second Place trophies.

Then the race bug bit me at an Impala national event. So I prepared the car for Autocrossing and Road Racing. Well you can probably guess what happened next. I found that the suspension equipment that was being made for the Impala and other B-Bodies was sub-par at best. So I contacted a few manufactures and expressed my desire to make these suspension parts better. So we researched and developed our own set of springs and sway bars for the Impala SS. I also found that many other manufactures simply take a factory sway bar and just make it bigger and market it as a performance set up. No R&D at all, no testing at all. Just a bigger copy of what the factory made.

Again I set out to actually see what was the best set-up for the street and the track. What combination worked best with different springs? What springs worked best in one configuration then another? After we were done with one vehicle I then started with my car hauler. My 2003 Chevy Silverado 2500 HD. It didn’t have a rear sway bar at all. So we R&D a rear sway bar for that. One vehicle after another we are researching and developing kits. I can’t do all the new vehicles at once. It is not done with a time limit. It is researched and developed for as long as it takes to get it done right. Developed and made right, the first time.

Well 5 years later we have Impala SS Carpet.com, B-Body Performance.com, now Frederico Racing.com. All with one goal in mind. To make it better than the other guy by making it especially for your vehicle by researching all options available and developing it to be the best it can be made. Most of my products have a LIFETIME Warranty. Can the other guy say that??