at all the different/creative names guyz have written on their race cars AND the cool name of boats ! I haven't seen a post on here of the different names of cars.......sooo Which names have you seen that are amusing/catchy/ stick-in-your-braings over the years /your favorites ??! ChiTown Hustler...Georgia Shaker... etc. Thx & enjoy.... 6sally6
My pals in H.S. did a nice job on the gate of my '55 Plymouth SW It was perhaps, infamous for a time THE THUNDER WAGON
Always been partial to the Salt Circus. Not sure where it is now. Last I knew it was owned by Chic and Tony Huntimer. RIP Tony "typo 41"
My grandpas race boats were Hot Pipes l V8 Flat head Ford Hot Pipes ll SBC Raced on Mississippi River in the 50s Dan
Have had names on all my cars n boats,an made a small bit of $,painting them on cars for those who payed me as well,under my art name "The Bat". Plus some pinstriping n airbrush Wildcar T-shirts. Back in the late 50s n early 60s,at car shows. As teens back then, some how we had a thing going in our neighborhood ,of naming all our cars something weird . A together thing going on. "Scarlet Fever"=Steve's-31 sedan>"Rigormortis"=Nick's -rusty Pontiac> Rob's 55 Ford- "Gangrene", an my own 28A "Black Plague". Some got repainted n named later or sold. I'm still amused
There was a Gas class ‘55 210 in my neighborhood, front clip was 2x3 tube, straight axle, running a Hilborn injected 426 hemi and a TorqueFlite. The owner painted it black and it looked a mile deep. Lettered in gold leaf on the quarter panels was My Baby Is Black, taken from the title of a B movie. It was a favorite with the brothers at US 30.
Guy in high school had an Econoline van called the Blue Moon….told the girls you need to “do it once in a Blue Moon.”
Sometime around 62/63 Ray Kobel bought this 1936 Willys in CA. It was a 4 dr. sed. that had been cut and welded and I think thats a Model A bed. He drove it to work daily until he sent to back to NY. He found a 40 Willys coupe stocker that he drove to work after this. He brought that one home and it became his race car. Pat
Back in the day I remember one that stands out the most "MISS CARRAGE". A friends 1955 Ford half ton pickup, mild custom.
“The Original Back Up Pickup” was a Ford Econoline that had I believe a 427 side oiler in the bed. The driver sat in the factory position in the cab backwards. It was a wheelstander. I saw that car….er…pickup on a trailer at a gas station off the freeway in my little town as a kid. And in the magazines too. I would have loved to have seen it actually on the dragstrip.
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