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• Speeding Ticket?
• Traffic Ticket?
• An expired driver''s license?
• An alleged theft?
• Causing a fatal accident?
• Car purchase contract?
• Car financing contract?

Stung by equipment, staffing and environmental issues, car dealerships are closing their body shops.

Only 40 percent of the more than 21,000 new car dealers have a collision repair shop, down from 70 percent in 1974.

“It’s a business that you either have to be in it seriously or be out of it,” says Paul Taylor, economist for the National Automobile Dealers Association.

For consumers, the pullback in dealer collision repair shops could mean problems in getting wrecked specialty cars repaired, especially the new gas-electric hybrid vehicles.

By David Twiddy, Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- VIVIANA MEDELLIN wasn't looking for a car when she attended a Cinco de Mayo festival sponsored by a Kansas City Latino organization two years ago. But there Medellin met Kathy Tinoco, a saleswoman for a Ford dealership in nearby Raytown, who was showing a group of vehicles and -- in Spanish -- explaining their features and financing.