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Show Cyclops By BRYAN GRAY r Celebrating a car which hasn 't arrived less than six seconds. The Ferrari has incredible speed and the handling hand-ling is unbelievable." "And the gas mileage isn't important," im-portant," I said. "Of course not," he said. "If I get 13 miles per gallon I'll be lucky. Obviously if a person can afford a hundred thousand dollars for a car, he doesn't worry about the price of gasoline. Anyway, I look at this car as a collector's item, not as a means of transportation. I certainly won't drive it every day. Actually, it's almost as much fun just knowing that you'll get one as it is in driving it. Have you ever been in a Ferrari?" Fer-rari?" "No," I told him. "I live in Utah where people don't worry about where they are on a waiting list We worry more about taxes and I whether the price of gasoline goes I up two pennies. " I He laughed. I "Oh, there's a lot of things one I can worry about," he said. "But j when it comes down to it, we all I have something we dream about, I something that we want to achieve. I I wanted a good job and I found I one. I wanted children and I got I them. Instead of worrying about I things, it's more productive to try to I make things happen. If costs go up, I I just try to find a way to make a I little more money and go for those I dreams. And this Ferrari, it's a I dream and that's why I decided to I celebrate with a vacation. Inciden- I tally, can I buy you a drink?" I "Of course," I said. You never I want to disappoint a dreamer. I There are many reasons to take a vacation. But last week I heard the ultimate excuse and learned about an obviously ultimate automobile. I'm sitting in a lounge in Las Vegas listening to the 628th rendition ren-dition of "Killing Me Softly" when the man seated at my right asks the bartender for a bit of Glenlivet. "That's expensive stuff," I joked. jok-ed. "You must have hit it big on the craps table. ' ' The man laughed. "I haven't even been at the craps table yet," he said. "I just got in town. No, I'm here to celebrate something. I just bought a new car." "You're here to celebrate the purchase of a new car?" I asked. "Oh, not any car," he laughed. "I just received word that my car will arrive next year. I finally got my hands on a new Ferrari 348 targa. If you know anything about the car, then you'll know why I'm so excited. I mean they are almost impossible to get." "Well, I know Ferrari doesn't offer rebates," I said. "The only other thing I know about the Ferrari is that I can't afford one. But really, you're celebrating a car that you haven't even received yet?" "Right," he said. "Of course, I've seen one. I saw a 1989 model and the 1990s are just coming into the showrooms now. But you can't buy one because they're all pre- bought And so is the 1991 model I'm getting. Right now, it you want to buy a Ferrari 348, you might not receive it until 1995 or 1996. In fact, currently driven Ferraris are now priced higher than the new ones since some people don't want to wait four or five years. I could actually sell my car which I haven't got for a good $15,000 profit." So you have to be patient and you also have to establish a nice line of credit. In the next 10 minutes I discovered that the man had paid more than $103,000 for the car-25 percent up front at the time of the order-and that he would have one of only 4,500 in the entire world. And what did the man get for his $103,000? He didn't get a radio, he didn't get a spare tire, he didn't get power steering and he didn't get cruise control. The tire and the radio are optional and, according to him, power steering and cruise control con-trol are unheard of at the Ferrari works. ("The 348 is a race car," he said. "Cruise control and power steering are for amateurs.") What he did get-or, at least, will get in 12 months-is a 290 horsepower engine with a 32 valve V-8 engine with a displacement of 3.4 liters. I don't know what all this means, but I assume it indicates that the car hates speed limits. ' 'The car will whip along at more than 170 miles per hour," he said. "I can reach 60 miles per hour in |