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Any assistance would be appreciated.  If a detailed photo of a certain area of the car would help, let me know.  

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@wrkinprogress

JPS buys their bodies/kits from someone else and finishes them.  This used to be VS and later both VM and Athos.  The most common older JPS (up to a few years ago when Kirk sold out) is a Vintage with a nicer paint job and a more finished interior.  I can't be certain that it is a JPS, but thats my best guess based on the interior queues that I see, but could be a VS also.  The seats and door panels are much more JPS than VS, but could be VS also, but again they are largely the same car with slightly different finishing.

Over the years several early (the 602 built) owners here have said had both the INTERMECANNICA cast hinges and the cast grill.  I've not seen one - but early IM were pretty much identical (except built in a controlled manner - not DIY) to CMC/FF.  CMC/FF bought out the Speedster from IM in 1979.  CMC used the IM molds and rest of the engineering (like steel sub-chassis).  I would stand to reason (?)  that CMC would not change molds to make the engine lid opening smaller to accommodate casting a new hibachi grill.  The bit built 3 bar OEM grill is perhaps 1/4" larger than the hibachi grill - so it is a chore to make it fit a CMC engine lid (complicated by the fact that the rain shield bonding attachment is impacted. Doubt I can find those old posts.

Mike - I too spent hours (dog hours for me) wet sanding and polishing my CMC cast grill.  I noticed that vintagespeedsterparts.com has the OEM style grill for $78.

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@DannyP posted:

Troy, what is your general malfunction? Pick an argument and stick with it, you can't have it both ways.

I'm not sure why you think there's a malfunction here Danny and I don't see it as an argument like you seem to; I've been consistent.  If a car has a Hibachi style grill it's for sure that it's a CMC or Fiberfab.  If it doesn't have a Hibachi style grill it could still be a CMC or a Fiberfab that has been modified.   Where's the disconnect?

No Bob.  There is nothing that would prevent someone from installing any other type of grill.

The point of the original post was to help determine who the manufacturer was and then edsnova posted "Not a "hibachi grill" so it's not a CMC, right?".  I simply posted that was not necessarily right, because we've all seen CMCs that have been upgraded to the three bar grills.

I don't get all the confusion and the hostility of Danny's post.

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