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Seeing Green: Color of the Irish Not Bad on Cars
Mar 17 2008 by Lori Hindman
3/17/08
My Favorite Green-Mobiles Aren't Necessarily Environmental
St. Patrick's Day brings green in many forms: green clothes, green milkshakes, green beer, green rivers, green complexions the morning after all the aforementioned greens. Here at Mother Proof, of course, it brings talk of green cars.
Some of the very earliest cars were green — literally. I'm not talking about the buzz word for environmental stuff here; their paint was green. As I am Mother Proof's resident expert on green-mobiles (three of the five cars I've owned have been some shade of green), I shall now recall some of the great and grotesque greens in automotive memory. My top five:
5. My super-cute metallic teal Toyota Celica, perfect for collecting boys and speeding tickets during college. I was green-a-licious in that one.
4. My green Toyota Sienna, which was also my very first mommy-mobile. Not as fast or sexy as the Celica, but still so pretty. I miss that green goober. It even matched my eyes!
3. The avocado station wagon my mom had back in the '70s. That car was the ultimate family-hauler. I think it may even have come with its own area code, it was so enormous. Man, that color was everywhere then — bell bottoms, home appliances, shag carpet.
2. The Cypress Green Pearl Honda del Sol that was big in the mid-'90s. Now that was a green green car. Whoa, baby, did that car out-green every green that had ever grown. There was nothing forest-y about it; that thing was pure Kermit. There's one in my neighborhood that unashamedly asserts its frogginess with a license plate that reads "IZATOAD."
1. Of course, the quintessential automotive green is British Racing Green. It became iconic in 1902 as a nod to the Irish hosting the world famous Gordon Bennett Cup (not that I'd ever heard of it before, either). Who knew that was all about a shamrock-colored racecar?
OK, your turn: What's your favorite green-mobile? And don't say "Prius"!
