interest in the Vehicle was being assigned. The Restatement provides the following further guidance concerning the impact of an assignment on the security interest: An assignee is entitled to priority of payment from the obligor’s insolvent estate to the extent that the assignor would have been so entitled in the absence of the assignment. Restatement (Second) of Contracts § 340(1). A number of courts have held that the assignment of a security interest does not destroy its purchase-money status. See, e.g., In re Brooks, 74 B.R. 418, 420 (Bankr. N.D.Ga.1987)(“Only the identity of the holder of the security interest was changed by the assignment, not the nature of the interest itself.”); Credithrift of America v. Littlejohn (In re Littlejohn), 20 B.R. 695, 697 (Bankr. W.D.Ky.1982)(<HOLDING>); In re Smallwood, 20 B.R. 699
holding that purchaser of vehicle was required to arbitrate her claims even though seller did not sign bill of sale containing arbitration clause when seller accepted and acted upon bill of sale by contemporaneously executing retail installment contract holding that twentythree purchase orders made up a single installment contract holding courts must look to the law of the state in which the security interest was created to determine if creditor retains a purchase money security interest despite refinancing holding that creditor held a purchase money security interest in household furniture by virtue of assignment of the retail installment contract from the seller holding that a purchase money security in jewelry was not lost when the perfected purchase money security interest was consolidated with a subsequent retail installment contract