This picture of a pink Mini was sent from Shanghai by longterm TTAC correspondent Daveinchina.
When I saw the picture, my eyes fixated my palm, palm accelerated in the direction of my forehead and smacked it so loud that Frau Schmitto-san came running from the other room, inquiring (to the best of her Japanese abilities :) “Are you alright?”
It dawned my smarting head that many months ago, I had called a hunt for pink cars. I asked to send the take of the hunt to shootthepink@gmail.com. Nothing arrived, so I declared the hunt a dud.
The dud was I: I had forgotten to enter shootthepink@gmail.com in my Outlook.
Today, I did. A wave of pink pics rushed into my computer. For which I send outrageously belated thanks.
Bob Fulkerson sent this fuzzy picture to shootthepink@gmail.com. He says it is a “Metro Kitty and Nini Powers.”
TTAC’s fashion correspondent Cameron Miquelon set this picture of a pink taxi. Where Cameron lives, they use it to transport victims of Poison Ivy.
I have many more. Eventually, they will run out – eventually. To prevent this from happening, please send pictures of pink Calamine Cars to shootthepink@gmail.com. I guarantee, the account is connected to my Outlook now. Please enclose your TTAC screen name for proper credit.
May the pink be with us.
Wow, that combination really looks good on the “Mini which isn’t.” Nice bit of additional contrast with the grey strip on the front fender.
Keep ’em coming!
In fairness, it looks like the cab has a couple of breast cancer awareness ribbons on it. Supporting a good cause and the color makes it stand out as a commercial vehicle.
There is also a super-patriot wrapped cab in Louisville owned by the same company; think stars and stripes and bald eagles. I think that one’s to support the troops.
But yes, this one I shot was wrapped for breast cancer awareness. That said, it was pink; it just had to be shot! :)
This column reminds me of the pink Ford Aspire Jack Baruth once sold .The comments on that piece were get out the popcorn worthy and I don’t think the guy who complained over the use of a certain word ever posted again !
https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2010/07/capsule-review-1995-ford-aspire/#more-360194
I remember that one too- worth revisiting.
Darn it!!
I dont have a picture but i JUST saw a Paris Hilton wannabe cutie here at the beaches in Florida get into a pepto bismol PINK early Audi TT coupe.
Talk about killing the resale value!!!
I miss Mary K Caddies.
Both Nicki Minaj and Paris Hilton have pink Continentals. Nicki has the newer one.
Protolanguage (damn you iPhone autocorrect it’s Peptol) Bismol: “It coats. It soothes. It relieves.” lt’s the pink liquid that turns your poo black.
Reminds me of a university prof of mine who married at a latter age whose wife brought to their union a pink (or as she called it ‘cherise’) 63 Olds 88. When it finally died, he wheeled and dealed, coaxed cajoled and broke the bank to buy her a 1989 DeVille (this was 1995) in a deep burgundy with burgundy velour interior. She of course hated it-wrong color. Monday morning he lamented his predicament of an empty bank account, and now had a dead Oldsmobile and an unwanted Caddie, what to do? He asked me for advice, being the only car-guy he knew. I told him to tow the Olds down to the Orange county flea market and put a high price on it and wait for a 20 year old wanting to build a low rider to snap it up. Second I told him to call his local Mary Kay Kommando and see if any of the sisters had a pink car they wanted to unload. He made enough money to buy a Mary Kay Kaddie and then sold the first Cadillac; in the end he divested himself of two unwanted cars and was better than 5 grand ahead.
Custom pink with pink interior modern (C-5 or C-6) Corvette Convertible witnessed in Bowling Green, KY yesterday 08-19-12. Unfortunately it was being driving the opposite way as we were going so no pictures. Unknown whether it was local or in town to visit the Corvette Museum.
I don’t mind that pink Mini at all. I think it’s a lot more interesting and palatable than yet another black windowed, black wheeled, matte black paint (looks cheap to me), me-too mobile that’s currently all the rage.
I saw a pale pink Cadillac SRX yesterday that was a bit too pale as if they weren’t quite committed to having a pink car. Is that the new Mary Kay look?
I’ve seen Pink lambo’s, pink jaguars, pink Cadillacs, heck any car you can think of I’ve seen here in pink in Shanghai.
Sadly it gets a bit hard to take pictures as frequently I’m in a taxi when I see them or they pass me too quickly.
But I will definitely keep sending them in as the opportunity presents itself.