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I think there may have been a Rootes warehouse or something=C2=A0in Elizabe=
th, NJ., too.=20
In some paperwork I found with one of the race cars it was noted.=C2=A0 I'l=
l have to dig through=C2=A0my papers to see.=20
But on another note,=C2=A0 one of the Alpine race cars I had been tracking,=
the=C2=A0one 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 relat=
ively closely located to each other.=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 Unfortuantely,=
the car was destroyed=C2=A0 in the 90's but I still suspect this was the o=
ld factory car that Bob Grossman raced for a short while in 1963.=C2=A0 (ra=
n at Lime Rock's little Le Mans in 1963 then Watkins Glen... H.J. Meyer bou=
ght it and sold it to Jim Latimer the Detroit area Rootes Dealer)=20
I wish we had the opportunity to talk with one of the corporate Rootes peop=
le.=C2=A0 But I suspect there were only a few that had an overall picture o=
f activities in the Corporate office in NY/NJ.=20
Steve=20
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style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><P>I think there
may have been a Rootes warehouse or something in Elizabeth, NJ., too.</P>
<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>
<P> </P>
<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>
<P> </P>
<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>
<P> </P>
<P>Steve</P>
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