54 Years...

On May 11, 2017 an article written by Dan Mihalascu appeared on the DriveMag website. The title, It Took Porsche 54 Years to Build One Million 911 Sports Cars.

Fifty-Four years.

The article (you can click: HERE to read it, and the above picture is taken from the article...) highlights the accomplishment that took place on the day the article was published. The 911 has been an incredible success for the company. As of the published date, seventy percent of all 911s made were still on the road. And the iconic car accounts for more than half of the 30,000 Porsche race wins.

I wonder if the the Porsche decision makers thought the car would still be around a half century--plus four years--when they began making the car in 1963. Did they know they would make more than a million 911s? Did they know the car would come to symbolize the company for generations to come? Did they know that for me--and perhaps millions of other car enthusiasts around the world--that whenever we see a 911 driving past we pause and admire the simple beauty of the machine? 

Maybe they did. Maybe they did.

Fifty-four years ago today, a baby was born in Ogden, Utah to an unwed mother. She had agreed to put the child up for adoption and a few days later the baby was placed with a family and given their last name. That baby was me. As I think about the woman who chose to allow strangers to raise her child, I wonder what she thought would become of her newborn baby. Did she know her son would grow up in a loving family, never wanting for anything? Did she know he would be fortunate enough to have a family of his own with an incredible wife and four amazing children--her grandchildren?

Maybe she did. Maybe she did.

I'd like to think so.