By TERRI BRYCE REEVES, tb-two* correspondent

 

Meghan Poole-Van Swol, 29, walked into a Starbucks in Clearwater and said it was a good day. Her “hot pink ’stache” had arrived. There, in the parking lot, was a Toyota Sienna, apparently of pubescent age. Soft, downy facial hair sprouted from its grille. It was shaped like a mustache, but in blushy-plushy pink. “I may drive a mom-van and I may have to turn 30,” Poole-Van Swol said, “but I still want to have fun.” She said people wave and give her the thumbs up now as she cruises by. She saw one in a Target parking lot so she surfed the Web and found carstache.com. The California company claims to be the “undisputed global leader in automotive facial hair.” Forty dollars buys a smilemaker in colors such as grisly brown, wisdom gray or purple pleasure. The mustaches have become somewhat of a national craze since their launch in the spring of 2010. The hairy handlebars made the Huffington Post’s list of “Most Ridiculous Car Accessories of All Time.”