How now, brown car?
Hey, look at me, being quoted as if I’m an expert.
But maybe it’s simply that, like most things from the ’70s, there exists an element of nostalgia for those old brown cars. At least, that’s how Ben Kraal sees it. Kraal knows brown cars—he also writes the Brown Car Blog. “Brown is so identified with the ’70s,” he told Maclean’s. “Some of us are just tragic fans of the hopeless, and not hopeless, cars of that era.”
As is the way of these things, I actaully blathered on and on. Here’s a bit more context around what I said when asked, basically, “why?”
The brown car thing, for me, is simultaneously a joke and serious.
It’s a joke because most people’s immediate reaction to a brown car is that brown is a horrible colour.
It’s serious because a really rich brown has a sort of luxury to it. Louis Vuitton’s signature colour is brown, for example. And also it’s because brown is so identified with the 70s and some of us are just tragic fans of the hopeless, and not hopeless, cars of that era. So in that seriousness is a joke, too.
