1960s 'flair' meets the M1 Carb

I have had a sporter stock for an m1 carbine for decades
Never got around to sending it to a stock guy for fitting to a gun
 
machman said:
Here is a vintage Volunteer Arms Commano chassis for an M1 carbine.A solid aluminum casting utilizing a Thompson buttstock.View attachment 1024150
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I built two of those back in the 1980s for two brothers who were good customers of mine (trying to out-do each other?) I also added a perforated barrel jacket that just cleared under the height of the front sight. They must have been showing them around, some time later the calls started coming to build more. I had 10-12 pending sales waiting, but no source for the stocks/chassis.. I bought them from a guy who was a dealer from TN living in CT for $15.00 each (about $50.00 today) at an armory gun show. Volunteer Arms and Commando Arms was long gone and I couldn't find any source. I did see a reference to Plainfield (NJ) Machine, but no joy from them since their supplier was behind in shipping. Humm, must have been Volunteer...maybe. It really doesn't matter now, 45-yers later, but I wonder if the original molds were sold by Volunteer/Commando, or could they have been sold to someone else (little things like that bother me). These were not like the Apache or Spitfire carbines and my friend at Eagle Firearms agreed that his cast aluminum stocks were copied by Apache and Spitfire, but not clones of Volunteer/Commando. I have build several PDWs in the recent years and absolutely know that they could be a HOT ticket today - even in polymer. I think Volunteer did a lousy job of marketing them back then.
Anyhow, just wondering if anyone has any historical knowledge about this.
 
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