European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 14, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 16 the stars and stripes saturday december 14, 1985 for the person who has everything a James Bond Type Mercedes Bojoh Barbour associated press w hat does one get Lor the person who has everything plus a keen sense of paranoia try this a bulletproof Bombproof Bug proof terrorist proof Holjac Prool. Ideologically Serene Mercedes 500sel. This sleek roadworthy european import has been modified but looks just like any other fancy car on the Road. The seller won t even discuss the name of the modifier but whoever it is will modify your jeep or Volkswagen to ensure your ultimate safety for a Price. The Price of the Mercedes is $140,000, depending on options. And of what options. It s listed in a new fall Catalon entitled perquisites. Along with other fancy items such As a $2,280 audio system a $5.400 chair that adjusts to every Little Vertebra a $3,950 Treadmill and a $3,850 computerized Bike that counts your calories continually lakes your pulse jests your fitness and scores you and lets you watch color to Between the handlebars. The Catalon is a product of Gilo systems ltd., san Francisco which defines perquisites As privileges earned by discrimination As Well As by while perquisites oilers expensive ways to take calories Oil. It oilers costly assistance in putting them Back on. Try the Scarpa hand crafted Silver. A dinner Fork dessert Fork knife Tablespoon and Teaspoon comes to $680. You and your companion can enjoy the simple act of getting food from Plato to Mouth for a Mere $1,360. A seven piece place setting is available on request for heavy eaters. But the piece de resistance and we mean a resistance is the Mercedes modified to specifications James Bond would approve of. Ii a a tracking Tyi Tam that allows your friends at the command Post to locate your position at All times. There Are infrared goggles to let you see through a blinding fog. The dense smoke of a burning Oil Tanker or even the dead of night should your headlights fail. It has steel reinforced bumpers windows that will Stop the Bullet of a .30-Callber carbine puncture proof tires and other features designed to make it Sale to drive through anything this Side of mount St. Helens. Etna or Vesuvius. With the flick of a switch you trigger blinding Halogen lights that make other motorists release the steering wheel in order to protect their eyes thus Clearing the Highway. The Telephone is protected by Bug detectors so you know if your enemies have taken extraordinary measures and is equipped with a scrambler so no one can decode your Calls. But that s not All. The modifier understands your suspicions knows How devious your enemies Are. So there is a device that starts your engine by Remote control lest someone has planted a bomb under the Hood. This Way you can stand safely some Yards away while your $140,000 Mercedes 500sel goes up in smoke and whistling shrapnel. But not All one More time. Let s presume you Are driving along minding your own business on a sunday afternoon and you Stop at a restaurant just As a riot is breaking out. You pop Back into he Mercedes and turn on the tear Gas. That keeps All combatants at Bay until you Flash Back out to the safety of the Highway. But look your enemies have Given Chase. Granted you could probably outdistanced them but who spoil an afternoon s Outing simply reach for another out Lon on the dashboard and Oil spurts out from the rear of the car sending your pursuers into Long skids. The car has placement positions built in for the storage of ammunition and the installation of machine guns arid other weaponry available on request. Otherwise it looks just like any other Mercedes 500sel of court there May be problems. Most states have Laws that would preclude the use of Many of the More effective protective devices. For instance Section 1219 of the new York state vehicle and traffic Law says no person shall throw or Deposit on the Highway any Glass bottle nails tacks. Or any other substance Likely to injure any person animal or vehicle on any that goes for Oil too. And Section 270.05 of the new York state penal Law. Bans the Possession of any noxious substance Container of drug or other substance capable of generating of Tensive noxious or suffocating fumes gases or Vapours or capable immobilizing a so much for tear Gas. California has similar Laws. And if those infrared goggles interfere with your peripheral the Law says lateral vision you Are liable. Fines run up to $250 on the third offence but in you can afford the car you can probably afford that. There Are also Laws against the carrying of concealed weapons but no one has yet specified legislation against a Uzi toting limousine. Sandra Gilo who with her husband David put together their Catalon Are 27 and 28 respectively. They have spent much of their lives travelling the world and were for the past five years in the construction business in Alaska. Somehow this led them to the conclusion that there Are a lot of people who feel the need to be protected or who feel the need to protect their their Catalon is built on the principles of offering a custom shopping service choosing items of functionality highest Quality at a competitive Price and products that Are aesthetically pleasing. It is so new on the Market there Are no reliable sales records but you can have anything you want within an average of 72 hours the Giles say. The shopping service will fetch anything not in the Catalon at request. Meanwhile one can Wallow in the various cliches of Good Irving that spice the Book to wit. I Don t want to make myself comfortable my dear i want Comfort to be made for and. I expect to do business exactly As i do pleasure. Only More efficiently " or that old favorite living Well is the Best revenge " or How about a $10 million mansion United press International a i Mcgraw threw the first Bunch of Dai sies Steve Mcqueen gave her into the trashcan. So Mcqueen sent nor an even larger Bunch in a Garvan Ltd trash can. Richard Burton once sent Elizabeth Tay Lor a Diamond Bracelet not in any old velvet Case but draped in a display of 10 dozen Sterling roses which matched her Lavender eyes. Such inspired gift giving can be found in Only the Best by Stuart e. Jacobson Abrams 208 up. $35text by Jill Opal Dong photography by Jesse Gerstell. Jacobson has collected some examples of the pre sents the Ilch and famous have bestowed on each other. Publisher Malcolm Forbes bought his wife Roberta a Faberge Imperial presentation cigarette Case for Christmas in 1960 a very touching offering was that of Nelson Rocke Feller to his wife Happy after the birth of one of their sons. It was a Henry Moore sculpture looking chair no. 1, which shows a Mother holding her child. One of the most lavish bits of All time has to be the residence William k. Vanderbilt had built for his wife Alva. The $10 ill Loii mansion in Newport. R.i., was completed in 1892. Attn divorced her husband two years later. Not quite As extravagant was the Chapel that Mary Lou who tray had Bull for her husband. Cornelius the who trays Hud a Chapel on their Kentucky Home and Marylou wanted a Cippel for her husband on their Saratoga Springs Home too. 3he found and had copied an 18 f 0 dutch House that would serve furnished it and gave it to him Christmas Day 1982. Not All treasured and meaningful gifts Are expensive of course. Composer and songwriter Stephen Sondhelm was a boy when he met Oscar Hammerstein ii. He taught Sondheim How to play chess and Dorothy Hammerstein gave him Oscar s chess set a Young Roddy Mcd Wili was a fan of comedians Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. One of the biggest thrills of my Young life was when Stan took off his hat one Day and inscribed the sweatband to me and put Iton my and then there is the gift from Katharine Hepburn to Henry Onda. The pair met for the first time when filming on Gulden Pond which turned out to be Abndt in i Wii Milieu uni in us run a s Asl film. Hepburn gave him Spencer Tracy s favor �7 the hat. One that director John Ford had worn and a considered his Good Luck hat. 1
