Mix ‘n’ Match on the Road

Question from July 20:

What things should be color coordinated with your automobile?

Color coordinate hair color with car color. That’s a problem for us bald-headed folk. So I suppose we should drive a convertible.

--DON MADDOX, Tarzana

1) Your hair: As it changes color, you simply visit Earl Scheib and have your car repainted. 2) Your moods: Feeling depressed? Blue car. Feeling happy? Yellow or orange car. Filled with love for all nationalities? Rainbow-colored car.

--MARK MILLER, Los Angeles

Turn an automobile into one large mood ring. Motorists need to know the mood of the other driver.

--RAYMOND BATES, Marina del Rey

The LAPD traffic enforcement division should issue color-coordinated parking tickets for those cars they tag.

--SUSAN NOOGER, Winnetka

Like mood rings from the ‘70s, the paint job on your car would somehow sense your mood and then change to the appropriate color.

--KATHY JAMES, Cypress

Fluorescent driving gloves to enhance those festive hand gestures we display to the fenderhead who doesn’t let us merge into the exit lane.

--BARBARA KEEGAN, Los Angeles

What is the most important part of today’s cars? Loan payment coupons. Color them anything but red.

--WERNER HAAS, West Hollywood

Question for July 27:

A new Web site allows loggers-on to view celebrities’ driveways (see story, this page). What other parts of celebrities’ homes would you most like to see?

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