Autumn, to me, always meant the annual Custom Car Show would be in town, There would be row after row of chrome laden customized cars, and hot rods, with their dazzling paint jobs and souped up engines. The cars were always well done and a joy to look at. One year, 1966 I believe, off in a dark corner, was a car in primer gray that caught my eye because it was unfinished. I made my way past all the featured cars and eventually found myself staring at a car I had never seen before. I arrived just in time to see the owner twist a key, and we all watched as the entire cab area of the cars unusual body rose and tilted forward giving access to the cars interior. Even though the mechanism was painfully slow, and drained a couple of batteries during the course of the show, it was never-the-less fascinating. When the crowd dispersed I spoke to the owner who told me the car was a "kit car", made by Fiberfab, and it was called a Fiberfab Aztec flip-cab. Strange too was the fact that it was mounted on a VW Bug chassis at a time when big block muscle cars were becoming all the rage. But to me the "beauty" in this unusual and unfinished primer gray kit car was in the individualism it offered! Here was a car that I figured a young guy like myself could actually build! One that would be different and exotic, where I could choose the taillights, the wheels and tires, the gauges and the steering wheel, the colors, the engine size, stereo and speakers, WOW! And on a budget too! I sent for the catalog...
    The dreams only got better as the years passed. Fiberfab introduced many new body designs, one of which, the Valkyrie and its mid-engine big block V8, became my favorite car. But it wasn't until about 1970 when I finally built a dune buggy, and not again until 1976 when I built Fiberfabs newest model, the Aztec 7. Like all kit cars, details and design problems are left to the builder to solve, which is why the large majority of kit cars are never completed. It was just those problems on the Aztec 7, which I helped to solve, that got me a job with Fiberfab. It was supposed to have been my dream job, working on the very cars I had dreamed about so often, and for so many years. But I arrived on the scene at a time when Fiberfabs second owner had just suddenly passed away, the company was in total chaos, and the sales department had just begun the era of the "hard sell" tactics and were selling kits missing critical specially made parts! I was devastated, and quit within one month.
     About all that really lasted were my dreams, and all the kit car literature and brochures I had collected over the years. Oddly, not one year has passed since those days that I haven't been asked to help people, from around the globe, with Fiberfab information, parts numbers, or advice. I have also noticed an increased awareness and desire for these old kit cars again.  And please, the next time you see a kit car that is actually fully completed and driveable, give the owner credit for his creativity, workmanship, and for something most people couldn't do... building his dream!
    Lennart Eric Swenson

Editors note: The last paragraph of this letter mentioned that Len had sent 80+ pages of Fiberfab literature to a person who at the time was running a Fiberfab website (now defunct), but when that person needed extra money, he posted the original paperwork and promotional items for auction on EBay, never to be seen again.
    I know that people on the 'net come and go, but Len has always been there to attempt to answer any dumb question I pose to him, so here's my little hats-off to to you.  Thanks again!!!!!!!