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YOU'RE OUTTA HERE; Old-cars guru gets the boot from Barrett-Jackson.(News)
Byline: BOB GRITZINGER
Longtime AutoWeek collector-car expert Keith Martin is still shaking his head over being summarily stripped of his press credential and ejected from the Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Jan. 17, allegedly for making disparaging comments about the auction company.
"I never said a negative word about Barrett-Jackson,'' said Martin.
Auction officials took away Martin's press pass and made him leave the premises for allegedly telling people in the auction company's media center to leave Barrett-Jackson and attend one of the competing auctions in the area.
"He can come and view the auction any time he wants,'' said Barrett-Jackson president and CEO Craig Jackson in a post auction-week interview with AutoWeek. "But he can't sit in our media center and bad-mouth us while he's eating our food.'' Jackson said Martin's comments were heard by half a dozen people in the media center-including his company's director of public relations, Jennifer Ziegler. Ziegler did not return calls seeking comment.
Jackson alleged that Martin had a "vendetta'' against the company because he had been fired two weeks earlier from his role as a commentator on Speed Channel's live coverage of Barrett-Jackson. Jackson said Martin was dropped from Speed for inaccuracies in his commentary during the ...
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