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AS TVR TURNS; Sports-car company's history plays like a TV soap opera.(News)

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Byline: STEVEN COLE SMITH

In a chilly airplane hangar in Polk City, Florida, the official coming-out party for the new TVR company took place in early March, hosted by new owners Jean-Michel Santacreu, an amateur racing driver and head of an Orlando convention and party planning company, and Adam Burdette, owner of Evolution Imports, which markets Japanese-domestic-market cars in the United States for The Fast and the Furious crowd.

Santacreu and Burdette looked a little like the dog that has spent years chasing a car and finally catches one: Now what?

The two young businessmen are now the owners of a legendary British sports-car company that ...

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