“The main thing you notice is the color—tangerine flake. This paint—one of [George] Barris’ Kandy Kolor concoctions—makes the car look like it has been encrusted with chips of some kind of semi-precious ossified tangerine, all coated with a half-inch of clear lacquer. There used to be very scholarly and abstruse studies of color and color symbolism around the turn of the century, and theorists concluded that preferences for certain colors were closely associated with rebelliousness, and these are the very same color many of the kids go for–purple, carnal yellow, various violets and lavenders and fuchsias and many other of these Kandy Kolors.”

—Tom Wolfe, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, from The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, 1965.