EXHIBIT 24.1

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

         Each of the undersigned, being a Member of the Board of Managers of
Advanced Accessory Systems, LLC (the "Registrant"), hereby severally constitutes
and appoints Terence C. Seikel, the Registrant's Chief Executive Officer, with
full powers of substitution and resubstitution, his true and lawful attorney,
with full powers to sign for him, in his name, in the capacities indicated
below, (a) the annual report of the Registrant for the fiscal year ending
December 31, 2001 on Form 10-K and (b) a registration statement on Form S-4, and
any and all amendments to such Form 10-K and Form S-4, and to file or cause to
be filed the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection
therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said
attorney, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and
thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection therewith, as fully to
all intents and purposes said attorney might or could do in person, and hereby
ratifying and confirming all that said attorney, or his substitute or
substitutes, shall do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney.
This power of attorney may be executed in separate original or facsimile
counterparts.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this instrument this
4th day of March, 2002.


                                         /s/   F. Alan Smith
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                                      F. Alan Smith



                                         /s/   Barry Banducci
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                                      Barry Banducci



                                         /s/  Richard E. Borghi
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                                      Richard E. Borghi



                                         /s/  Gerard Jacobus Brink
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                                      Gerard Jacobus Brink



                                         /s/ Gerrit de Graaf
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                                      Gerrit de Graaf



                                         /s/  Donald J. Hofmann
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                                      Donald J. Hofmann



                                         /s/  Bryan V. Fletcher
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                                      Bryan V. Fletcher