Gilbert Smith is an automotive journalist with over five years of specialized research and writing experience. Before joining CarBuzz in 2024, he produced in-depth buyer’s guides and feature articles ...

Total Composites is an exclusive importer of German-engineered premium fiberglass composite refrigerated and dry cargo truck body kits. The firm offers ready-to-assemble body kits at competitive ...

Fiberglass body components have been around for decades as lightweight replacements for steel body panels, though much of it as we have come to know offers little to be desired in the way of proper ...

Designed around the 1959 Chevy Corvette XP-87 prototype, this kit was developed as a full fiberglass body that could be bolted onto a C1 Corvette chassis. Warren “Bud” Goodwin was an amateur sports ...

Many of us have 4x4s that probably started out as really nice vehicles. You could pick up a date and drive down the street without attracting cops like a sprinkled donut. After years of tree ditching, ...

Lowell Peterson, a hot rodder who has been building and working on old cars in his shop for the past 16 years, knew the molds for this body style had been around for years before he bought them, but ...

The time has come and you have made the decision to try your hand at building your very own street rod from the ground up. There are any number of ways you could go, but one way is to start with a ...

We're pretty fond of classic fiberglass kit cars around here, there's something about the timeless classic grunt and underpinnings of a vintage muscle car with a funky lightweight body on top that ...

Glasspar is a name that might sound more familiar to vintage boat lovers rather than petrolheads, but the Costa Mesa, California-based business also had a small automotive branch that left a lasting ...

When you think of automotive materials, steel and aluminum have always been king, but fiberglass has played a significant role in body and chassis design over the years. This material has been used in ...

Twenty dollars says you can’t tell us in what year this car was made. Actually, scratch that; $100 says you can’t name the decade it’s from. This is entirely the point of the car you see here, which ...