A cursed paint codeOne of the strangest bits of folklore surrounding the CRX is the supposed "cursed color," which could cause the car's owner all manner of issues if the story is to be believed. According to Car Bibles, the color in question is Y-49, more commonly known as Barbados Yellow. It allegedly made workers at the Honda factory ill due to its toxicity, and some owners reported that their yellow cars kept getting into strange accidents, including animals running into the car and uncharacteristic mechanical problems.A few CRX owners on forums have even claimed that just driving one can cause people to crash uncontrollably and total their cars, or mysteriously break down for no reason in the middle of nowhere. Now, obviously, it's worth taking all these stories with a grain of salt (or a truckload of it), especially since Car Bibles reports that most of the rumors came from an old, poorly-formatted site that shut down while the writers were working on the story. Even so, it's amusing that someone would even go to the trouble of maintaining a decades-old conspiracy theory about a practical Japanese sports compact, whatever their motives might be. It's worth noting that Car Bibles did contact Honda about the Y-49 curse, and despite their best efforts, the company's PR reps reported that no one at the firm had even heard of the supposed curse before.
