who built this car?

The fender flares look like CMC.  If the engine compartment grille is cast and has one wide horizontal bar, it is a CMC.

You'll need to post a lot more photos. Interior, rear seat area, under the front trunk, rear lid grill, and the engine compartment.

thanks for the reply...

IRS, clean underneath, pans look aftermarket.

Nice car indeed.

I think HMDE= "Home Made" which means it was built by whoever took on the kit assembly. That could be the first owner, but lots of times it isn't. I am the third owner of my Spyder, and I got it in pieces.

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I had a 1957 356A engine installed....

My take - Fiberfab or CMC California  (C) flared fenders.  Interior does look to be VS as do front turn signal lenses, and frunk liner.  Engine grill is OEM/Replica and not CMC. 

Looks to be well built - do like the lowered floor pans and 356 oil filter.

Do check the hood and engine lid to see if INTERMECANICA is cast in them - distant off chance it's IM.

Pic of dashboard might help.

dash

My money is on a CMC with an interior finished by the old Vintage Speedster.

My first Speedster was a homebuilt car of unknown provenance with an interior finished by Vintage Speedster. They would do that for guys, back in the late '90s.

The body and the gauges scream "CMC".

Regarding cast "Intermeccanica" hinges -- if it's a flareside car, I don't think it can be a California IM (they didn't build any, to my knowledge), and if it were one of the 3 or 4 flareside Vancouver IMs ever built it could be immediately obvious.... but there would be no cast Intermeccanica hinges, which was a California IM thing.

I think Stan may have nailed it.

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AFAIK, VS never made any IRS cars.

They'd even rip the trailing arms out of a post-68 bug and convert it back to swing axle. Something about 'production efficiency'.

You can learn a lot about a company from their euphemisms.

- Mitch, proud owner of a swing axle VS built on a '69 pan.

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thanks for the insights.   

Not sure which auction to list it on...BaT, PCA, Hemmings .....But BaT seems to have the largest following. 

No pads on the dash and the engine lid grille argue against CMC as do the door top pieces.  The fender flares argue for CMC.

CMC that someone cared about. They got a new deck lid, re-did the interior (mostly), and just basically improved upon the kit where they could. Wheels are custom-widened, aren't they?

This looks like a really good car, imho.

Just observing, I think the picture of the IM hinge is from WOLFGANG and not from Salisbury.

YES - I posted the hinges With IM on them --- IM used them on early cars. 

An OEM style engine grill can be installed on a CMC engine lid- the opening has to be made about 1/4" larger.

thank you all !!

let you know when & where it will be listed for sale...think BaT might be my 1st choice.  Its fun to watch the last couple of minutes. 

Just noticed gauges - 2 big and 4 small???  If so they are CMC (also sold as FF) Vintage gauges only offered by CMC.  They listed them at $325 for set with senders.  The gauges say Vintage on face.