Are green cars cursed?
By ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (64052)
United States
October 5, 2025 6:09pm CST
I don't remember where I heard it first. But someone told me that they were and to notice how many green cars were not on the street.
Mind you, we are talking the late 1960s or early 1970s.
However, when I was growing up my parents had a green Studebaker. They replaced their red, convertible Studebaker before my brother was born (1951) and I know we had it into the mid-1960s.
In the same time I think we had 2 or so other cars. It wasn't the prettiest car, but it beat the heck out of the station wagon. I don't remember the type, I do remember we went to Disneyland in it for Christmas. (Santa came early just special for us.)
I often think about that Studebaker. I remember it fondly.
The only potentially bad happened in the car was when Mom put it into neutral after backing just over the edge of the carport and ran inside. It started rolling. My brother was trying to reach the gear shift on the steering wheel and I just went over the front seat and hit the brake.
The agility of children.
Of course there wasn't a seat belt! What were those? This had to have been before we moved into the house with the garage in 1963.
So, the question is (and I did check on Stopes) do you think green cars are cursed?
The reason for this discussion was I saw a YouTube short where this guy cleaned this long parked car that was green. Not my favorite kind of car or anything, but it was lovely.
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@ElicBxn (64052)
• United States
6 Oct
@jstory07 I'm more of a jewel-tone anything (except yellow.) My roommate is into more... muted greens, not as dark as Army green. She likes a green that has more greys in it.
Our Studebaker was a pretty dark green. It may have been shiny when it was new, but not by the time I can remember it.
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@wolfgirl569 (124478)
• Marion, Ohio
6 Oct
I don't think cursed but I did read one time that red is hit more often
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@ElicBxn (64052)
• United States
6 Oct
I have heard that people who chose red cars are often more likely to break traffic laws. At least it is something people think. I don't know if it is true. The only person I ever met, and really interacted with was that roommate that I really don't talk about much.
Early on in the house we had a couple of people who came, one left in a couple of days, couldn't handle the 4 cats we had, the other angered Connie when she did the one thing Connie didn't want in the house, and her mutt striped the bark off of one of the trees in the back yard. I managed to salvage the roots by picking one of the 'suckers.' It was the ash I lost first, but it did live for another 25-30 years.
No, this roommate moved in I think in 2005 or '06. She was there being kind of low impact until 2012, when the blind person moved in (I can not call her a lady.) Exactly 6 months later she bailed. Why? I don't know, maybe because we were not going to let that person sit around and let us do things. Nope, not happening.
She had a red car, in fact, she bought another red car, I'm not sure if she bailed because she was going to lose her job soon and wasn't going to give the owner of the loan an address to find her at. But she didn't do crazy driving things...
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