Colors for cars. I’m a fool for metal-flake cherry-red, magenta, grape, and sort of a royal blue, but not dark. And our first real car (there was a sorry prologue by way of a much-used DeSoto) was a ’64 (IIRC) Chevelle in my favorite car color at the time: metallic light blue. Awesome!

But it did eventually dawn on me, long after the Chevy had disappeared in the rear-view mirror, that the best color for a car really is white, for its visibility (except on snowy back roads). And I’ve always driven with the lights on — for visibility. And I pump the brake a bit when slowing down or stopping, on the theory that the flashing tail-lights might catch the eye of a guy who might otherwise rear-end me.

At least those old monstrosities with fins had some character–outrageous though it might have been–some “je ne sais quoi.”

The Monkees as a group were unjustly scorned for being a made-for-TV boy band.
Each of them was a serious musician, and as accomplished as most of the bands at the time, and their writers were often very good.

Why? Because like others have said, black cars – especially if they have dark interiors – become ovens in the hot sun, while gray or silver cars become almost invisible in any kind of precipitation. There is a reason the Navy paints it’s ships gray.

The car I eventually bought is a nice pearl red.

–The Monkees, “Shades of Gray”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SubpzqswJRE

I always thought that song was under-rated.

Written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, who wrote a ton of hits, including “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling.”