As Im sure you know...they (VS) bought out CMC.
That's not true at all! Was it meant to be "tongue in cheek?" CMC initially bought out IM (Yes, true - see Note) when they were still in Calif (before moving to BC) that was around 1978. CMC also bought up FiberFab - and then killed off their vast product line! CMC was a huge company with growing legal suits - anyone that would think of buying CMC would have been foolish. Around 1992-94 FL State Attorney General closed down CMC. CMC became AutoResolutions around 1999 mandated to filled missing orders/parts ($2.5 million in restitution). It then morphed to Street Beasts and went back to the old CMC business model until it too when belly up in 2008-10. (Dates are fuzzy as lots of back and forth legal actions).
http://www.crankshaftcoalition...ts_fraud_controversy
Last count was VS produced just over 3k cars - CMC was easily 10 times that production during their hay days. (They were mostly kits - not rollers or finished cars). CMC has a tainted past due to their business model and CEO George Levine - but once you got all the parts, the kit was well done. Finally quality depends on the actual builder's expertise.
CMS molds and parts were sold off years ago. A SOCer here in FL bought a complete wide-body set of molds (since sold to another SOcer in Sarasota FL). MGMagic bought up trailer loads of parts and is still selling them for the Speedster, Gazelle and MGTD).
Note -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermeccanica
"During 1976–1979, Automobili Intermeccanica was formed in partnership between Reisner and Tony Baumgartner in Santa Ana, California, to build Speedsters. About 600 Speedsters were constructed. Baumgartner bought out Reisner's 50% share of Automobili Intermeccanica and later sold the Speedster project and equipment to Classic Motor Carriages in Florida."
Also From Intermeccanica - The Story of the Prancing Bull on page 145. Notes the sale of IM molds (Reisner's partner Baumgartner sold CMC the Speedster side) to CMC. CMC later sued IM over a non-compete clause but by then IM was onto the Roadster - not the Speedster so suit dissolved.
