Heard on the radio it is national name your car day. While not as much fun as national "talk like a pirate" day from a few weeks ago, it got me thinking. So what pet names do ya have for your rides. My wifes town car is reffered to as "the big Ford" My '78 F-150 is known around our house as "'Ol Yeller" The '63 is simply known as " the Pontiac" Your turn...
it depends on how shes acting..could be betsy..or bitch!...all depends on how shes treating me that day..or if im psychotic that day
I never got into naming my cars. The closest to a name is my truck which I call Pick-em-up truck. The other cars are usually refered to by their color or make (ie: the merc, the red one, the green one, fucking POS... =-) ). Alex.
My daughter calls my wagon "The Noisy Car" I call it the "Outside Cat" because it is rare, very rare that it gets to come inside for shelter.
The only car I ever named was the '88 Ranger we had for a daily driver/run errands/don't give a crap where we park it car. We referred to it as "The POS".
We have the "sedan".....the "roadster"......the "big one" (the Avalanche).........and the "little car" (the HHR).
I'm not really one for naming my cars since I go through them frequently but the one listed in my sig will be called either "Bad Reputation" or "Bad Rap" due to the history of the car.
I named my '37 Chevy Taildragger the Cannon Ball. When I step back an eyeball it, it reminds me of one of those old streamliner trains of the late 40's and early 50's. I did a little poking around and found the name of a streamliner that used to run in my area on the east coast.
Back in the 1980's when I was teaching my 3 kids to drive (twins & a son just a couple years apart) I used my '58 Chevy Nomad and the kids started calling it the "Red Dinosaur" and it stuck. The only other car I named was my '50 Chevy back in 1962. My best friend wrecked it and his Dad made him take the front off his '51 BelAir and I put it on my '50, I called it "Half Breed".
My 98 S-10 was called "The Squeakmobile" because the springs squeaked after I cut them to lower the front. Then, it got hit a bunch of times, and I have re-christened it "The Hard Luck Truck" My '50 Fleetline is The Heap or more commonly The Chevy My wife's Jetta is the Pukemobile becuase she barfed in it after a Christmas party once. It was the dead of winter and we were on the freeway (I was driving) and she had had one too many. She opened the window and started to hurl. It was already well below freezing, and with us doing 80 the wind chill made it waaayy below zero. All of a sudden, it seemed like it was snowing inside the car. The barf was freeze-drying as it left her and floating around the car! Well some of it anyway. The heavy stuff (mostly spinach and artichoke dip) went right in her hair, and it froze straight out from the side of her hair in a giant barfcicle!!! I tried to clean it up when we got home but it was so cold that everything was frozen to the upholstery. She had quite a mess to clean up the next day. She said that the only clean spot in the car was a silhouette of where I was sitting in the driver's seat! Too much information?
Sticky - LMFAO! We call the Merc, "the Merc". Back in high school a buddy called his POS Pinto 'Cecilia' after the song, because it was breakin' his heart, and shakin' his confidence daily.
My grandfather called her "Christina" - for reasons unknown to me... But- It will always be "Grandpa's Car" now that he's gone. dv that's my dad in the pic though. I gotta find one of grandpa....
Hah! My first car was named bitch! Since then I've had: Betty - black 92 Camaro RS Mr. Ed - white 89 Mustang 5.0 Pancho - POS Pontiac Sunbird Larry - green S10 (the kids named it for Larry the Cucumber) Sugar Ray - beater Honda Civic Maybe Someday - seems to be the name that's stuck with the Model A so far.
The 55 Buick is Isabelle. I gave my daily driver beige-on-beige POS Nissan the Barris-esqe nickname of "The Golden Embarrassment"
I just started calling my 49 chopped slammed P/U the F-bomb (seems thats what I say whilst working on it...) Before that though (and the standing formal name) is kallie...girlfriend at the time named it and its just stuck with me...
Wife calls her chopped Merc..RUSTY and she has a pair of 1967 Saab Touring Wagons..White one is EMMA .... Orange one SVEN. They call my chopped F-1...ROO READY...Ever since this black crazy guy said " Roooooo Ready, thats the funniest thing I ever seen" My plate reads R U REDY...........................OLDBEET Maybe he was the WOOO! WOOO! guy?
They all get names in our house. I had a '66 Mustang Pony Coupe that was "Spot" I found it living underneath a big steel fire escape staircase. When we tried to start it, it spit fire out of the carb. It was a perfect name. '84 lowered Ranger long bed 'Ranger Rick" '93 Ford F150 lowered 5"&7" all black "Ferrari Truckarossa" '56 Buick Gasser "Draggin' Lady" '03 E250 lowered extenda van "Metro Liner" Race vehicle for our company Metro Racing '67 Shelby GT350 "Carroll's Curse" '62 Falcon Ranchero "Just Falcon Around" Now that I think of it it's just the cars. The bike's usually get The Indian, The Harley, The Bultaco, The Kawi, etc. Ride fast, take chances, Don
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