but it reminds me of Euro lights as found in South Africa and Australia
It would probably be able to pass as one if mixed in with a bunch of other fixtures. As far as making them out of fiberglass or plastic goes, there are plenty of designs like the ones that you mentioned that are made of plastic, and people that live in the places that those streetlights were installed
don't mind them at all (even if some US members might think that they are even uglier than the Durastar, but I think they look cool like early American clamshell and "power pack" designs). I mean look at the
BG 0 from Germany! That thing looks like (and is made of the the same materials as) a piece of children's playground equipment!!
The fiberglass construction does have it's advantage in coastal areas where the salt air corrodes metal and destroys it, sometimes cracking the slipfitter and making the light fall to the ground (like what have been happening to the LED Roadway NXTs in New Zealand), but the slipfitter and bracket are made out of metal,
so it doesn't really matter does it.
