Just read the news that Carroll Shelby has died. For those of you that don't know, Shelby was a huge car designer, perhaps best known for for the GT Mustang in the '60's. Now I'm an art teacher, and that's my claim to fame (lol), but I great up as a normal boy into normal boy things. From my days in elementary school into high school even, two big things in my life were cars and comic books. Shocking, huh? Posters of Porsche 911's & 959's, Lamborghini Countach, Ferrari Testarossas, Shelby Cobras, and yes the Shelby GT 350 'stang, all graced my walls. It wasn't until high school that prints of Art Deco pieces, 1930's advertising, and Jackson Pollock, would arise to hang next to those car posters and comic book drawings. I always had that dream of owning a European sports car or classic American muscle car (kinda still have that dream in the back of my head). I actually saw a green GT 350 'stang for sale the summer of '10 in KY.
It's just a shame to see just another giant die. Recently it was Maurice Sendak that passed away. Before that it was Adam Yauch (MCA) of the Beastie Boys. It just seems like more and more my childhood is slipping away. Maybe that's the way it's destined to be, but I won't go down without a fight. I guess that's one of the reasons I teach elementary school. It's a way of still keeping a hand clenching to my youth. (It does have a tendency to keep a person young, I tell ya!) We can never stop the hands of time, but recently I feel like those hands are smacking me upside the head!
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