Showcars Fiberglass & Steel Bodyparts Unlimited
Reviews and Complaints

Sure wish I had read the complaints first... ordered a set of fenders for my 1941 GMC PU in October 2019...finally got them in early December... right out of the box I could there was going to be an issue with the LH side in fitting...the RH side was perfectas it only took about 10 hours of fit and finish work to get ready. The LH side was a completely different story; I would add I contacted this Rob guy via email the day that I got the fenders and noticed the problem. this is gone on multiple times over the last 1.5 years without much resolve.
With well over 150 hours (probably closer to 200 hours) and multiple emails and even texts and phone calls advising this guy that this vendor was going to break given how far out of parameters it was. In measurement it was approximately 6-7 inches longer on the lower front which is kind of hard to take out of a fiberglass fender. Well, as predicted, even after following specific instructions on how to install, it broke and is totally unusable at this time. This is kept my project car from even hitting the road for about 1.5 years; at this time I should have been able to have everything finished including paint and interior... But that is not going to be the case.
Although I've contacted Mr. Rob via direct an eBay email with a timeline of 48 hours I have but one response " What address did you send them to...can't find any here on eBay..."

If anyone is looking to purchase Fiberglass parts, DO NOT buy from Rob Johnston at Showcars Unlimited Fiberglass and autobody parts. I had ordered fenders and a nose which he said he would have them done in 3 weeks. Well 3 weeks came and went and all he had done was the nose.
I paid him $1000 and gave him $800 in original good steel parts and what I got in return was pure junk. Every week after that was an excuse on why my fenders weren't done. 8 weeks later I made it clear they need to be done or my money sent back or I'll be making a visit to his shop.Which he replied with "I would be f****ing delighted to see you. Well another week went by and I finally got my fenders and they are terrible. He called them quality. It took me hours to get it to somewhat line up and for a little better, I still have TONS to do. Now I know, Fiberglass is never perfect but this was ridiculous. Please learn from my mistake and purchase from either VFN or glasstek.

horrible service, he is a crook. DO NOT GIVE HIM YOUR MONEY

Aug 2017
Beware!

I too was lied to by this company (Rob)
he sold me some fender flares for my Datsun 240Z
when i received them, I at first thought they were rear flares, as they did not fit properly on the fronts. I contacted him, and he then explained to me, these flares were designed to work with an Air Dam the he no longer offers.

His first solution was for me to put them on ebay and sell them to another sucker.
I could not in good conscience do that. He then said i should take a saw to it and a lot of fiberglass and rebuild this whole thing to fit my car. (this is not an option) He then got rude with me, cursed at me a few times, and refused to admit, he mislead me, and did not notify me the flares would not work, and would have to be majorly modified to make them work.

Do not do business with these people. They are dishonest, Rude, and just all around bad people.

My dad ordered a hoodscoop and when it arrived it was utter rubbish. The mounting studs are just 1/4" bolts cast in place at all sorts of odd angles and with different amounts of threads exposed. This was supposed to be a replica of the original, but the studs on the original are smaller. The hood in that area is flat from front to back and the scoop has over 1/8" bow in the middle so it rocks front to back. The finish is not smooth. The corners are not a smooth radius like the original so the trim does not fit right. The mounting holes for the trim are all filled in. We sent it back because the owner said he was sure he could fix it. When we got it back, it looked worse than before with a corner chipped off, a long crack along one edge, and a short crack on the other side. There are grinding marks all over it and places where there must have been voids or surface flaws that have been filled with something, but not smoothed out afterward. The tops of the louvers should all be the same height, but the middle two (of four total) are over 1/8" lower than the front and back ones, because of the bow in it. All of the mounting bosses on the bottom where the studs are embedded are broken. The owner said he needs pictures of it on the hood so he knows where to make further adjustments. Even if he gets it to sit on the hood flat, the shape of the louvers is all wrong and they don't line up right.

Warning! Do not purchase or order any auto panels or parts from this company. I and many other customers have been lied to and ripped off. In September 2005 I called Showcars and spoke with the owner Rob Johnson about purchasing a 442 Oldsmobile fiberglass ram air hood for my car. Mr. Johnson lied and told me he has one and in order to ship the hood it has to be prepaid and to have the money, $1,202.68 including tax transferred to his personal account at the TD Canada Trust Bank. So, like a trusting idiot, I did. . . Big mistake!

I patiently waited a few weeks and no hood arrived so I called Mr Johnson and he lied and said that he was having trouble keeping guys to work in fiberglass as they kept quitting. He said it will get done, it will just take time and the one he had in stock was apparently for someone else. I kept calling him about 2 or 3 times a week, and every time I called he had a different excuse for not making the hood. It would take too much time to tell you all the lies and excuses, but you get the picture.

Eight months later, after what seemed like hundreds of phone calls, the hood and wing arrived. The wing I had ordered later and paid for by cheque, made out to Rob Johnson, for deposit into his personal account for $287.83 including tax. This is highly illegal because what he is doing is not reporting the sale of the hood, wing and the tax he collected from me, to Revenue Canada. Mr. Johnson is playing a very dangerous game with the tax department.

When I received the hood and wing, they were so poorly constructed that they would not even fit on the car, I took photos of the mess and shipped them back. I told Mr. Johnson that I want replacements by the end of June, giving him 2 months to make new ones. Well, June came and went and after many many phone calls, I asked him to forget the whole thing and refund my money, which he said "we don't give refunds here".

In late September 2006, just over a year later, he sent a replacement hood and wing. The hood doesn't fit the car. This install was tried by licensed auto body journeymen at a very reputable auto restoration centre. So now I am stuck with this hood that won't fit my car, nor will it fit any other 1970 Oldsmobile. Now I am hearing of other guys that have gone through what I have. So I checked with the Better Business Bureau in Kitchener Ontario, and found that Showcars has 14 registered complaints and is not responding to the BBB to resolve or address the complaint issues.

Showcars is located at:
258 Attwell Dr. , Unit 4
Otobicoke, Ontario M9W 5B2
Canada
Phone: [protected]
Fax: [protected]
www.showcars-bodyparts.com

Save yourself a lot of grief and money and stay away from Showcars-
Unlimited. I wish I had.

Totally ripped off,
Ron