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Truly testing San Franciscans' color-blindness -- it's the pink work truck

"A Rolls-Royce Phantom two: 4.3 liter, 30 horsepower, six cylinder engine, with Stromberg downdraft carburetor, can go from zero to 100 kilometers an hour in 12.5 seconds. And I even like the color." -- The Sultan, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. 

Sometimes, as the above quote denotes, you really can find everything you want in a car. So, either the contractor or landscaper who picked up the above well-worn Ford F-250 pickup was thrilled to stoke his secret desires and discover such a vehicle in the counter-intuitive Pepto hue or, paraphrasing Shakespeare, figured that an F-250 of any color will still haul just as sweet.

Incidentally, the No. 1 Google page for the search "pink pickup truck" is here, a CNN story from 2003 about Iraqi troops surrendering while motoring about in a pink pickup -- with a mounted machine gun in the bed (one supposes that anyone driving a pink pickup through the Fertile Crescent had better put a gun in the back to compensate).

It may be chauvinistic, but I'll take the plunge: Our pink truck is cuter than theirs.