If you had to describe the State of Arizona with just one photo, this might just be that photo.There’s a certain brand of hippie-hating jackassery around here, and many just settle for the “Obama’s a socialist” bumper-sticker. Not this guy, whom we spotted on State Route 51 Wednesday. His hatred…
Every so often, you’ll see stories from around the country about wannabe car thieves who don’t make off with their new ride because they don’t know how to operate a manual transmission.However, police say a woman who tried to steal a car in Phoenix got stumped by an automatic transmission…
If you’re an employee at a Chevrolet dealership, you really ought to know that a stolen car can be tracked down to a precise location if that vehicle is equipped with OnStar.Somehow, that point didn’t register with a now-former employee of Courtesy Chevrolet, as police were able to locate a…
A Tennessee man who was the highest bidder at a Barrett-Jackson auction for a rare Mercedes-Benz claims he didn’t find out the vehicle had an odometer “discrepancy” until weeks after the auction.In response to a federal lawsuit filed by Gary Thompson, lawyers for the Scottsdale-based Barrett-Jackson say that window stickers…
The BBC has released the footage of a 2012 helicopter crash in Coolidge, which happened during the filming of a scene for the South Korean version of the automotive show Top Gear.The crash — which was not planned — took place almost a year ago, and involved a military helicopter,…
Remember that original Batmobile that was sold at the Barrett-Jackson auction in Scottsdale over the weekend for more than $4.6 million?Forget about that, because two Ferrari were sold for more than $8 million each at two different, smaller, Valley auctions this weekend.See also:-Batmobile Sells for $4.6 Million at Barrett-Jackson; Man…
Saturday night was a typical Saturday night at the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auction — the day the real money is tossed around.For example, the gentleman who dropped $4.62 million — four point six-two million American dollars — for an original Batmobile, and the man who spent $1.1 million to be the…
For whatever reason, many of us enjoy watching rich people buy cars for one week every year, at the Barrett-Jackson collector car auction in Scottsdale.For most people around the country, that experience is given to you through the boob tube, but the in-person experience is a bit more than watching…
