From the Archive: 1992 Ferrari 512TR epic cross-country road trip:
Blue skies, 75 degrees, zero humidity in Cypress, California. This is the site of Ferrari's West Coast office. And the new 512TR—which needs to be delivered to New Jersey—is already hors de combat. "Cold-start problems," explains a Ferrari technician. This is a little like being told your polar Ski-Doo expedition is canceled on account of snow.
It is in Alamogordo that one of the burning issues of our time has been wrestled to Earth's crust: How, exactly, does one boldlywhere no man has gone before? On display here is the answer, a Skylab commode, complete with instructions: "Pulling up gate valve control activate slinger motor...slinger tines shred feces and deposit it in thin layer on commode walls.
Here the Ferrari and I enter the Central Time Zone at a speed that might convert more readily to Greenwich Mean Time. And here I find the sort of driving and scenery that cause men to abandon their Franklin Planners to stare doe-eyed at roadhouse waitresses named Winona Rae.Then back to the real world. At the end of Route 54 and the intersection of I-10 is Van Horn, Texas, a place with all the charm of Sam Kinison's car wreck. Darkness is falling.
North of San Antonio, exiting Interstate 35 for a rest, I am followed by two onlookers whose cars flank the Ferrari like pilot fish. Both drivers get out and follow me into the restroom. They deliver rapid-fire interrogation as I stand before the urinal.
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