Random Question about Cars...

I have a random question about cars...

I was leaving the grocery store today and, when I was getting ready to pull out, an older man pulled into the space next to me.  He was driving a Buick LeSabre.  And it got me wondering... At what point will I have to buy a LeSabre?

Is there an unpublicized mandate that anyone above the age of 70 purchasing a new car must get a sensible sedan?  Does the doctor send your name and DOB to the DMV?   If that's the case, I'll buy something funky and cool when I am 69 and 3/4 years old and run it until it dies. (Or I do!)

Or will I just be compelled by nature to find my car suddenly abhorrent?  Will I be suddenly unable to do anything BUT buy a LeSabre?  (Like how I was compelled by nature to buy a mommy bathing suit and frumpy clothes for a decade after childbirth?)

As I oberserved the man at the supermarket, I realized that they are usually maroon or white.  The cars, not the drivers.  (Do they make them in any other colors? Again, the cars. Not the drivers.) And, there is usually a copilot. Sometimes there is also a cloud of cantankerous hostility eeking out of the windows.

It made me wonder about my own marital dynamics in our "golden years".  Will I be the pilot?  The copilot? Or the complainer? It doesn't seem to matter which seat that person is in because there is apparently so much to complain about.  The driver's skills.  The copilot's navigational faults. Or the music choice...

Today, the weather was a little warmer than it had been and I was enjoying the spring feeling.  I had the windows open to feel the delicious air and had some upbeat music going.  It made me realize that you don't see the "old timers" blasting the tunes.  I wondered why.  Is it because they are too serious?  Or is it just because you can't really find a good 1940's station?  It also seems like the "Greatest Generation"  isn't too keen on gadgetry.  Having to always "make do" through the hard times, they don't seem inclined to spend extra on satellite radio or a cd player and the accompanying discs.  (And yet this generation can buy frozen PB & J sandwiches instead of just making them...)

And what will we be like when we are nearing 80? I plan on still blasting music when I drive.  Will my generation be a bunch of weird, raucous, grey-heads blasting grunge while cruising the boulevards? Or, if they take away our cars because we are too old,will we have boom-boxes strapped to our walkers? Either way I hope it's one big party...

P.S.  I thought this was a Random Question but it turned into 100 questions- once I start, I can't stop....