fluff: Purple car

I see purple cars all the time at car shows.  Corvette had a color is 2017 called Black Rose.  In subdued light it looked black but when the sun hit it just right it was a beautiful purple.  It was one year only color and if I ever find one at the right price it’s mine.

Purple has actually been a popular colour in the last few years, especially for small cars or Jeeps. My dd and I always notice them (and often text each other pic's) b/c for us a purple car is a prompt for positivity.

When she was little, we used to play a game on road trips where each kid would choose a car colour and they would count the number of that colour we met. The boys chose common vehicle colours, but we remember a time she chose her favourite colour, purple. Her brothers jeered. But surprisingly, we actually SAW some purple cars when we were looking for them!

I kind of changed the experience into a mantra: you see what you are looking for. If you look for good things, you will see them. If you are constantly looking for the negatives, that is all you will see.

So we work at seeing positives. And when we see a purple car, we smile b/c it reminds us that good things are still out there.

Yes! There were a number of purple Dodge Neons around town years ago. All seem to have been driven by young women. When we’d see one we always said “there’s a Barney car” (named after the purple dinosaur).

My daughter drives a purple car! It’s a Nissan Juke.

When I was a kid, my parents once told us that our grandparents had bought a purple pick-up truck and they were on their way to our house. As 7- and 8-year olds (or thereabouts), my siblings and I had never seen any purple vehicle, much less one owned by someone we knew. We were so excited that our grandpa had one and hoped he would let us ride in it. I think my parents regretted telling us about it before bedtime, because we were too excited to get to sleep. But we still remember that visit and how much fun it was to get to ride in the purple truck!

A friend of mine owns a purple car and she introduced me to the rainbow game. When you see a purple car, you have to spot cars in the rest of the rainbow in the right order, so violet (that's the starter purple car), indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red. You can't start again until you get back to red, no matter how many purple cars you see. I play it with lorries as well, as they have liveries in so many bright colours.

Based on that, I can say that there are plenty of purple cars around in the UK. I only get stuck on yellow and orange.

My very first car was a 1984 Renault Alliance that I bought for under $1k. For my birthday, my parents agreed to paint it purple. It was very similar to Pantone purple 2726 and I adored it. ^.^ I always love cars that are not the standard color.

My neighbor has a purple charger--a head turner, in a good way. 
On another note, there is a gal somewhere near to me that has a fuchsia car with zebra interior.  When I was working, I had seen it a few times on the freeway as I went to/from work.  When there was some work being done on the freeway and lanes were down to 2 and sometimes traffic literally stopped, she was one lane over and slightly ahead of me and I took a picture of the car.  I've since deleted the pic, but wish I'd kept it.

I've seen many at car shows when I would go visit with my parents. Most of them were muscle cars.

We had a purple-ish mini van for a short time.

Now orange is a color I don't see much. My first car was orange. Like bright Halloween orange. It stuck out in the parking lot full of white and red cars.

Definitely did because my oldest dd used to call them "Barney cars."

I see them here and there, not including car shows... 

I knew someone in the fifties who drove a custom painted lavender Cadillac convertible.

Either Lexus or Acura offers a purple on one of their new models.  I was looking for a new car and saw it and shuddered.

I've seen tons of dark purple on the road, but never knew anyone personally with a purple car.