Going, going, gone.(Car auctions.)(Brief Article)

Byline: LARRY EDSALL With Phoenix the site of several big collector car auctions each January-Barrett-Jackson, RM, Kruse, Russo & Steele-excitement in the area runs high. But this year, an auction held a couple of days before the Barrett-Jackson event, in a once-abandoned but now suddenly crowded Kmart store, provided a highlight all its own, and more than a little irony.

A court-appointed receiver assigned local auctioneer Cunningham & Associates with dispersal-and with no bothersome buyers' premiums-of a yellow 2001 Ferrari 360 F1 Spider with a mere 363 miles on its ...

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