Does your Rod or Kustom have a name?

I had a 57 Pontiac my girlfriend named "Poncho"...it stuck and even after we married, she refered to the car as Poncho. She didn't know it wasn't original and thought she was very witty. I was just glad she took enough of an interest to even name it. My present wife looks at all cars as an insturment to get from A to B, period.

 

My 57 f-100 truck is called Big Bertha and my wife's
shoebox is called Roxane. I still don't have a name
for my 48 Plymouth

 

So I guess you guys are lucky atleast most of yours have a intrest with ya mine could give a shit less it's all a big waste of time as far as she is concerned so be thankful just my 2'cts worth

 

"Trouble Maker"!

Josh

 

I named my 66 f100 after a dragon from one of my daughters favorite kids shows."Magelan"was the same shade of green as my truck{15yaers later the name sticks well.} My 65 buick is "buford", the wifes Desoto is "Rosa"{thats Christine's older,and meaner, sister}The 50 Chrysler in the garage is,was, and always will be, "OL' BLUE" no matter what color it is at any given moment. My wifes old toyota tercel was "betsy" or "the turtle". haven't named her new car yet but she's working on it! I call the kids 88 escort "worthless piece of dogcrap mother f***ing son of a bitchin crack whore shit box" but its a nice little car,,,,really! L.O.L.
R.R.

 

The MADSTER thanks to Bob Bleed

 

"The Ford" or sometimes "the F-100", usually it's just the shitbox.

 

My 59 is "Kamikaze Kustom" thanks to Humbolt Cat,
my 61 project is "Rising Sun" thanks to Chris Ito,
my 64 3/4t is just the big truck for now, but I have a Charbroil badge from a bbq I might put on it after I finish with the flat black rattle can job,
my pile of parts that will someday be a Roth trike will be "Vitamin Z" since it's the last body from his "Vit E" mold.

 

Humbolt Cat calls his "Dicey Donna" because of all of his mis-advenetures when ever he attempts to exercise her. She see,s to leave him Hi & Dry!!!!!!!!! I guess that why he drinks so much now, Lol!!!!!

My 34 Roadster is the "Purple People Eater" because she tends to eat up my friends cuz the always have to lend hand working on her=Lol!

 

Kevin's got a lot of that correct, except it originated with my then-gf's mom (who lived down the street from us, and often looked up the sidewalk to see my legs sticking out from under the front of the '57) how it was dicey, and the name just stuck. I've decided recently this should be the last time I attach a "dicey"-like nickname to another of my rides, since this one has a way of living up to its name.
Just a lil' tip for the kids...
I miss ridin' around in Purple's KK, that thing was a fun hop around Redding (and that was just one afternoon)!

 

Everytime somebody in my family saw my '30 coupe for the first time the first thing out of their mouth was "It looks like the Waltons car." So I started to call it "Walt". It sounds funny now when I go work on it "I'm gonna go hang out with Walt". My '93 Blazer is know as "The Beast" my '67 Camaro I had in Highschool was "The Roach". My wife had a 00 Jetta we called "Fritz" her Passat has been dubbed "Schultz"

 

When I've worked on and driven a car long enough it develops what can pass for a personality (anthropomorphization aside), so around then I give'er a name.

Present rolling stock are listed in my signature. Minus my wife's Elantra, no name there. I don't drive it and she don't name'em, guess we got it backwards........

Cassandra; after the goddess and her curse for which I feel a kinship, and a girl back in high school.
Nightwind; the feeling riding mountain roads in the night (my favorite puttin').
El Toad; derivative of the name (road toad) some of us gave the Valiants when they first came out.
Hawthorne; after the crab in the Sherman's Lagoon comic strip, just seemed to fit.

Some past ones have been; a '54 Chev convert I just called the Rag, a '51 Chev torpedo a friend dubbed my '51 Camaro and it stuck, a '50 Chev SD I called the Box, (did I mention I built stovebolts then?) and for an off the wall item; how 'bout a 20" (not the more common full size 26") Whizzer my old man tagged the Skate (he said that's about what it looked like under me).

 

the 58 sedan delivery is "JEZEBEL"

 

i call my dd dodge pickup mein kabelkampf its german and means my cable clash ,because the day i bought it the seller was drving the car to my garage and after 100 meters the whole cables in the engine room started to burn and melt . Well it was my first engine harnes by deniz ,and yes it was a clash ,my cableclash
by the way i know it sounds similar to a bad book ,its a joke ,i am a turkish guy in switzerland ,so i dont like the small germ politic from the past

 

My coupe's named "Chance II" because we view it as a new start on a old dream.

 

Mine is in my sig.

 

Best car I ever had was an Impala with the police package, boy she was fast; friend of mine called it "The Interceptor" after the Mad Max movie--

 

My roadster is the "Deathtrap". Bike is "The Little Blue Waste of Time" I'm too "Stupid" to learn how to post pix.

 

We've given names to all our vehicles. A lot of the old cars had name so we do the same. The 54' Ford Customline was "Wanderer", the 31' Raodster was "Hoodlum", the 50 shoebox was "Blackjack", and now the 40' Chevy PU is now "Longshot".

 

The day we drove my 49 fleetline home ,my 16 yr old daughter asked me what I was going to name her .Her sugestion was black betty ( the car is black) But to be politically correct we named her Gertrude...She looks like some old lady would drive her....

 

The minivan.

 

My car's name changes all the time, when I'm working on it and something goes wrong its name is " You Mutha Fucker"!

 

Mines going to be Code Orange cause I got to be crazy for doing this in the frist place. I'm on the local fire dept and soon ems also, I'll get a red light and sirern permit for it later when its more road ready.

 

It seemed like every old truck I owned was blue, and were all referred to as "Old Blue", except for a brown 63 Dodge. I called her "Kate", after an old girlfiend. No matter how hard I tried , I never could really get either of them going.
A room-mate in college had an old caddy he named "Granny" because his grandmother gave it to him. I never did like the way it sounded to take ol' Granny for a ride.
The best name I ever heard of was one given to a high school friends 67 Baracuda. It was called the "Virus Mobile." I never knew why, but sounded cool.

 

the 46 dodge 1 ton was called lurch the 64 impala ss was called flattery because it would get you nowhere and the 64 galaxie xl convert was named calvin after calvin coolidge who once said I do not choose to run. the current ride a 33 chev is as yet unnamed.

 

My 1960 Chrysler - Green Onions - Just 'cuase I like the song so much. It'll be green when finished.

 

67 mustang.......Sally(for ovious reasons)
69 mustang.......Pestalance(name of the horse of the fourth horse man)
67 mustang.......Pink(the wifes cars)
most of mine don't have names.........

 

Well,if you've seen my sons shoebox,it has a pin-up girl painted on the headliner,that says "gold diggin wench". So he calls his car "Goldigger".

 

I've always named my cars. Comes from drag racing days when i'd talk to em. Kind of a 'I take care of you, you take care of me' type deal but not on the level of Christine or anything.

Right now my '55 Buick is named Ella. Wanted a classy name and on the cross-country drive to pick her up we listened to a lot of Ella Fitzgerald. Upon picking up the car there was a liquor store in the parking lot where we made the transaction and my girlfriend went in and bought a bottle of Old Fitzgerald's bourbon to christen her. Nasty shit but it's still sittin in the glovebox.

 

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