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<P>In some paperwork I found with one of the race cars it was noted. I'll have to dig through my papers to see.</P>
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<P>But on another note, one of the Alpine race cars I had been tracking, the one which Creed Smith ran in early IMSA (yes, really, IMSA in an Alpine) was bought from a Rootes person in Bayonne, NJ - which is all relatively closely located to each other. Unfortuantely, the car was destroyed in the 90's but I still suspect this was the old factory car that Bob Grossman raced for a short while in 1963. (ran at Lime Rock's little Le Mans in 1963 then Watkins Glen... H.J. Meyer bought it and sold it to Jim Latimer the Detroit area Rootes Dealer)</P>
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<P>I wish we had the opportunity to talk with one of the corporate Rootes people. But I suspect there were only a few that had an overall picture of activities in the Corporate office in NY/NJ.</P>
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