I'm talking about car colors. Look at a supermarket parking lot. Drive down the highway. Look outside your window.
I thought about this the other day while watching Bewitched. Look below at that glorious yellow convertible Bonneville that Samantha drives! And look at the other cars behind her, especially that "Hurley-blue" Dharma Initiative baby blue van, and the bell pepper red "Old Thyme" car.
We need more cars like this on the road now. Wouldn't it brighten our outlook?
Our current pallet of drab cars ... what does it say about us? Should we blame the sour economy? 9/11? I'm told by interior designers that "in" colors for housing interiors generally mirror the national mood. Is this what has happened to our cars? Did eight years of George Bush ring all the fun out of us, did the War in Iraq coat us in gloom so much that a colorful car became ... tacky and inappropriate?
I say let's keep hope alive and bring the color on.
Come on, bright orange "Brady Bunch kitchen" Ford Focus! Let's go, Powder Blue Altima! It's time for you, lime-green BMW 7-series!
Let's bring some color back to our cars, OK?
2 comments:
I don't know....the Vietnam War had a share in the colors that Samantha Stevens enjoyed...as well as the whirling pyschadelic infused fashions of the late 60's early 70's. It wasn't until Nixon and Ford did we get the avacodo greens and burnt orange siennas of the mid to late 70's.
I contributed to the awesome colors on our roads until a few years ago. I drove a pea green volkswagon camper van decked out with green plaid curtains in high school and college. Afterwards, I owned another green Volkswagon vehicle. Now, I must say I have gone to the dark side and own a black toyota vehicle.
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