Austrailian speed cameras

The following is quoted from the Hemmings weekly newsletter.

Legislation
Speed camera sabotage on the rise
Speed cameras have become a huge international issue, with municipalities adopting them as an easy revenue-generating measure, and driver and safety advocates pointing out that they have no effect on traffic safety.
Numerous reports of speed-camera sabotage have been heard, but Gosnells, Perth, in Western Australia, seems to have been the site of the first speed camera self-sabotage.
The West Australian is reporting that the driver of a Nissan Pintara made an emergency stop in the middle of the Tonkin Highway when he noticed an upcoming speed camera. A young man following behind him in an HSV (Holden Special Vehicles) Maloo ute was forced to take evasive action, and in doing so left the highway and crashed into the speed camera. No word yet on what, if any, charges were filed.
- By David Traver Adolphus

This story came from the same source. Just to fill in non-car people a "duece" is a 1932 Ford.

Street Rods and Hot Rods
Bidders drop more than $350k on two rods
How much would you pay for a factory Ford hot rod? How much for the nicest traditional Deuce highboy you’ve ever seen? Did you say, respectively, $220,000 and $133,100? Those were the going prices at last weekend’s Dingman Ford Collection auction in Kensington, New Hampshire, run by RM Auctions. The auction, which mostly included stock pre-war V-8 Fords, also had the two cars that would’ve made any hot rodder swoon. The first, a 1933 Ford roadster, sans fenders, headlamps, running boards, windshield and rumble seat, constituted one of Ford’s covert entries into the 1933 Elgin, Illinois, road races. Fred Frame, one of the top drivers of the day, stuffed his 1933 roadster into a tree during practice laps the day before, so he used another 1933 roadster that had served development mule duty for the actual race. It went through a number of hands over the years until Ford historian Ray Nacewicz bought it in 1982 and restored it to its current condition. The pre-auction estimate had it pegged at $125,000 to $175,000, which it handily toppled. The second, a 1932 Ford highboy with a 24-stud flathead V-8, triple 97s, juice brakes, wide whites on steelies and a Columbia two-speed rear axle, had no documented history to go along with it, but its overall condition rivaled those of the impeccably restored Fords surrounding it. We didn’t hear of any pre-auction estimate, but more than $133,000 for a Deuce highboy with no particular build history or high-profile name behind it should raise a few eyebrows.
- By Daniel Strohl