{"id":698,"date":"2014-12-08T00:15:42","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T00:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/?page_id=698"},"modified":"2023-03-25T16:57:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T16:57:31","slug":"i-love-speed-racer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/true-life\/true-life\/1972-1974\/i-love-speed-racer\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Speed Racer! Go!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"speed-racer\"When I was eight or nine years old, I lived to watch Speed Racer after school every day.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In case you’re not familiar with it, Speed Racer was a Japanese cartoon about a young white boy who was a professional race car driver, and whose car, the “Mach 5” had the most amazing gadgets.<\/p>\n

After getting home from school, I would tear into my room to change out of my private school uniform and into my normal kid clothes: jeans or cords, a shirt, sweater, and runners.<\/p>\n

Speed Racer started a four o’clock, so I almost always had to hurry! Dad would tease me with “It’s almost time for that Fast Racer!” “SPEED Racer!” I would yell back from the bedroom, hopping around, trying to get into my jeans. Every day the same tease from Dad, followed by my frantic, aggravated correction, and a hasty sprint to sit down on the carpet in front of Poppy’s new colour TV.<\/p>\n

Each time, Speed would be in some new adventure, which of course, would include a big cross-country car race at the end. The Mysterious “Racer X” was always involved as well. Nobody knew that Racer X, whose face was completely hidden behind a full-face mask, was in fact Speed’s long-lost older brother. Although I considered him mysterious, a bit scary and sometimes even a bit of a bad guy, Racer X often saved Speed’s bacon without Speed’s knowledge, during some perilous cross-country race.<\/p>\n

So, in spite of the low-quality, four frames-per-second Japanimation, it was an exciting and intriguing little animated adventure soap opera.<\/p>\n

But it does seem quite cheesy compared with modern cartoons. Since my teens, I have much preferred Science Ninja Team Gatchaman<\/a>. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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