It's not unusual for poorly-received cars to be maligned as built of cheap plastic, but some fascinating fiberglass creations haunt our highways.

On weekends, he races cars on dirt tracks. Pictures of cars circle around his office walls like stock cars speeding around at the Darlington Raceway. Bond, 42, owns Gibbon Fiberglass Bodies by Bond.

McClenaghan's car is the eighth one built by Fiberglass Freaks. Racop said his team started hand-building the car in September 2014 and finished it in July 2016.

GM used fiberglass for early Corvettes to reduce costs and keep weight down. It still uses fiberglass in modern Corvettes, albeit alongside other materials.

Another forward thinker on that list was B. Robert “Woody” Woodill and his Woodill Wildfire fiberglass sports car. Woody was a partner with his dad at a Dodge dealership in Downey, California ...