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0Celebrity classics on the docket at RM Auctions in Arizona 1288544760
Rita Hayworth's '41 Lincoln Continental Coupe – Click above for high-res imageThis year's RM Auctions event in Phoenix will feature several classics with serious celebrity provenance. First and foremost is a rare 1973 Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona Spyder that was alternately owned by Reggie ... -
Arizona's freeway speed cameras snap their last speeders 1279634340
In span of about two-and-a-half years, Arizona's highway speed camera program, run by Australian company Redflex, mailed 1,105,935 tickets, or close to 1,125 tickets every day. In 2009, a group called CameraFraud went to work to get the cameras taken down, and after a year of effort they've been ...
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Report: AZ residents revolting against speed cameras, only 38% pay tickets 1267106460
Arizona is the first state in the U.S. to utilize photo enforcement of traffic laws on state highways. The cameras are paired to radar detectors that snap an image of offending vehicles traveling at 11 mph over the speed limit, and the ticket is then mailed to the home of the registered auto. And ...
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Dillinger's 1930 Ford Model A getaway car up for auction at Barrett-Jackson 1263860700
John Dillinger's 1930 Ford Model A – Click above for high-res image galleryIf you saw Michael Mann's Public Enemies, the car above may look familiar. It isn't just the same model that the notorious John Dillinger used to escape The Law in one of the most daring shootouts in American ... -
Report: Controversial AZ dealer with busty mannequins, crazy ads closes [w/video] 1263168120
"Crazy" Tracy's AutoMart Superstore commercials – Click above to watch videoChandler, Arizona used car salesman "Crazy" Tracy Tingue has been put out of business at his current location, and that means his busty mannequins have gone with him. That's right, his busty mannequins. To the ... -
Arizona to abandon 'groundbreaking' speed camera program? 1262959200
Speed cameras are at best a dubious safety enhancement sold on the premise of slowing traffic, while the more important proposition is often the promise of the revenue they can generate. Arizona residents have mostly cut through the bovine feculence around the state's big camera deployment ...
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Spy Shots: Infiniti QX getting the FX treatment 1256057880
Next-gen Infiniti Qx – Click above for high-res image gallery of spy shotsBased on the gargantuan Nissan Armada, the Infiniti QX56 is one big beast of an SUV. Especially next to the svelte FX, and even more so now that the EX has joined the line-up. Keeping such a goliath of a truck ... -
GM and Army open up new test facility on Yuma Proving Ground 1248389760
GM Desert Proving Ground Yuma - Click above for an image galleryGeneral Motors and the U.S. Army have officially cut the ribbon opening the automaker's all-new Desert Proving Ground this week. Located just outside Yuma, Arizona, the testing facility is built on 2400 acres of leased government ... -
Dealer still pitching cars from the afterlife? 1244332620
On April 8, 50-year-old Charles P. Dimmick died doing what he loved to do: watching his favorite driver, Jeff Gordon, run in the Phoenix round of NASCAR. Dimmick was also the marketing manager at Lund Cadillac Hummer Saab in Phoenix, and if you believe the person who wrote his obituary, he also ...
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PSA: Don't mess with Arizona...license plates 1231096020
If you live in Arizona, you might want to take a run down to the garage and check your license plate, because as of January 1, a new law has been implemented that makes it illegal to cover the word "Arizona" on your tags.The state legislature initially passed the law way back in 2006, but delayed ...

