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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 5
ANNUAL STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP
[X] Check box if no longer subject to Section 16. Form 4 or Form 5 obligations
may continue.
[ ] Form 3 Holdings Reported
[ ] Form 4 Transactions Reported
1. Name and Address of Reporting Person(s)
Splaver, Eric J.
2525 East Camelback Road, Suite 1150
Phoenix, Arizona 85016
2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
Ugly Duckling Corporation (UGLY)
3. I.R.S. Identification Number of Reporting Person, if an entity (Voluntary)
4. Statement for Month/Year
12/98
5. If Amendment, Date of Original (Month/Year)
6. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable)
[ ] Director [ ] 10% Owner
[X] Officer (Former) (give title below) [ ] Other (specify below)
Former Controller
7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)
[X] Form filed by One Reporting Person
[ ] Form filed by More than One Reporting Person
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Table I Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
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1)Title of Security 2)Trans- 3.Trans- 4.Securities Acquired(A) 5)Amount of 6) 7)Nature of
action action or Disposed of (D) Securities Indirect
Date Code A Beneficially D Beneficial
(Month/ or Owned at or Ownership
Day/Year) Code Amount D Price End of Year I
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Common Stock - Unchanged 37,840 I !
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Table II (PART 1) Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned (Columns 1 through 6)
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1)Title of Derivative 2)Conversion 3)Trans- 4)Trans- 5)Number of Derivative 6)Date Exercisable and
Security or Exercise action action Securities Acquired (A) Expiration Date
Price of Date Code or Disposed of (D)
Derivative
Security Code A D Exercisable Expiration
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Incentive Stock Option (right % 01/15/98% A 5,000 % %
to buy)
Incentive Stock Option (right & 11/17/98 D& 2,500 & &
to buy)
Incentive Stock Option (right = 11/17/98 A= 1,250 = =
to buy)
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Table II (PART 2) Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned (Columns 1,3 and 7 through 11)
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1)Title of Derivative 3)Trans- 7)Title and Amount 8)Price 9)Number of 10) 11)Nature of
Security action of Underlying of Deri- Derivative Indirect
Date Securities vative Securities D Beneficial
Amount or Security Beneficially or Ownership
Number of Owned at I
- Title Shares End of Year
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Incentive Stock Option (right 01/15/98% Common Stock 5,000 % 26,810=% I !
to buy)
Incentive Stock Option (right 11/17/98 Common Stock 2,500 & (see above) I !
to buy)
Incentive Stock Option (right 11/17/98 Common Stock 1,250 = (see above) I !
to buy)
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Explanation of Responses:
! These securities are held indirectly by the Reporting Person through the Eric
J. Splaver & Jennifer L. Splaver Revocable Trust U/A 5/5/95. The Reporting
Person has sole and/or shared investment and voting power with regard to all of
the UGLY securities held in the trust.
% These 5,000 options were granted under the Incentive Plan effective as of
1/15/98 at an exercise price of $8.25 per share. The options vest and expire as
summarized in the above footnote. The options have not been previously reported
on a Form 4 or Form 5 and are reported as a change/acquisition with the filing
of this statement.
& Cancellation of option in connection with grant of replacement option. On
11/17/98 the UGLY Compensation Committee and Board of Directors approved a stock
option repricing program of certain options in the UGLY Long-Term Incentive Plan
("Incentive Plan") ("Repricing Program"). The Repricing Program included a
decrease of the exercise price, a decrease in the number of shares under the
option and the restart of the original vesting schedule for the option. This
cancellation/disposition is part of the Repricing Program (see footnote below).
The cancellation has not previously been reported on a Form 4 or Form 5.
= As discussed in the above footnote, this reported transaction involved the
cancellation/repricing of an existing option that was originally granted
effective as of 12/2/96, for 2,500 shares, at an exercise price of $17.69 per
share. The repriced options are considered to be granted effective as of
11/17/98, for 1,250 shares, at an exercise price of $5.13 per share. The
repriced options have not been previously reported on a Form 4 or Form 5 and are
reported as a change with the filing of this statement. All options were granted
under the Incentive Plan and generally vest over a 5 year period with 20%
vesting each year, beginning one year after the date of grant. The total for the
end of year balance of securities includes 20,560 options that were granted
under the Incentive Plan effective as of 6/30/95 and 6/1/96 at exercise prices
of $.86 and $6.75 per share, respectively. The options expire either 6 years or
10 years from the date of grant. End of year balance of 26,810 securities
consists of 1,250 repriced plus a 1/15/98 option grant of 5,000 (see above
footnote) plus 20,560 existing securities not repriced.
- - Power of Attorney is included and made a part of this filing.
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SIGNATURE OF REPORTING PERSON
/S/ JUDITH A. BOYLE
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By: Judith A. Boyle
- Attorney-in-Fact
For: Eric J. Splaver
February 9, 1999
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DATE
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POWER OF ATTORNEY
(E. Splaver)
I hereby appoint Steven P. Johnson, Judith A. Boyle and Steven D. Pidgeon,
and each of them, attorney-in-fact for me, each with full power of substitution,
to prepare, execute and deliver on my behalf reports required to be filed by me
pursuant to Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended
("Section 16"), and Rule 144 and Rule 145 under the Securities Act of 1933
(singly or collectively ("Rule 144")). Among other things, each attorney-in-fact
is authorized to file original reports (either electronically or otherwise),
signed by me or on my behalf, on Forms 3, 4 and 5, and Form 144 with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, and to provide any necessary copies of such
signed forms to The NASDAQ Stock Market and Ugly Duckling Corporation as
required by the rules under Section 16 and Rule 144 as in effect from time to
time.
This power of attorney is effective from the date hereof until September 1,
1999, unless earlier revoked or terminated.
/s/ ERIC J. SPLAVER
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Eric J. Splaver
Dated: April 28, 1998
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