Had a 67 Plymouth Belvedere...my sister named that one snowball, after one winter storm piled about 2ft of fresh snow on the white car...Yeah, I felt real manly driving a car referred to as snowball. My 56 F-100 I call Ralf. Says Ralfs56 on the plate. I didn't build it, my late uncle Ralph did, so I don't take credit for it. Just my way of remembering him. My 57 Dodge was named Chalupa, not sure by whom. Was back when Taco Bell was hawking a Chalupa or some other taco/refried bean thing. Reason was that the guy I bought the car from really wanted to be latino (was a cracker *** white boy). Car was slammed, for that low-rider look (no suspension or hydraulics), Red crushed velour interior, red interior lights, lotsa chrome, etc...The name stuck. The car is red and tempermental, so lately I have been calling her Christine after the movie......hope she doesn't hurt me .
Ruby for the Pontiac or sometimes "Good old reliable" (Knock wood) Old Blue for the F-250 or sometimes "Piece-of-S..t!"
Back in 1962 I had a pea green '50 Chevy 2door sedan that my buddy wrecked so his Dad made him pull the front clip off his metalic blue '51 BelAir (ya BelAir!!) and I put it on the '50 and never painted it. So I had a friend letter "Half Breed" on the side. The car ended up sitting on the shoulder of the Long Beach Freeway with a softball size hole in the block from a thrown rod.
"What fukkin now", seemed every second day Id be on the side of the road asking that. I'm never gonna buy a finished rod again. Stick to building em!
RPU in my avatar is "Fuelish Pleasure" done in gold leaf on the tank. Build in progress is called "Delusions of Grandeur" cause the Dodge hemi is just a little guy at only 315 cubes. Could have called it Napoleon Complex, but D.O.G. keeps people confused and I think thats amusing.
my new 'beater',,i call it "BUTCHER BABY",,not cuz its been hacked,,but cuz i lwas listening to the song from the PLASMATICS after i picked it up...
My 50 Dodge pickup is called "Big Blue" because its big and its blue. Often lately it been called many other things, none of them nice.... My 39 Plymouth is called "The 39". Our 35 Dodge sedan was refered to as "The 35" and our 54 Dodge pickup was called "The Truck". My 77 Dodge pick was "The Plow Truck" because it had the snow plow on it. Aren't you all amazed at the amount of thought that went into naming my rides? The crea***ive talent at my house is unlimited, we just don't use it very well. Gene
I was working on mine last night. I called it a {expletive deleted} lump of {expletive deleted} useless {expletive deleted}{expletive deleted}rust bucket. We were NOT having a good nights work.
I called mine something similar to that last weekend while working on the front suspension. Isn't it amazing how quite it gets in the garage when words and tools start flying . I didn't see most of the family for the bigest part of the day.
My soon to be finished 53 Chevy is 'Blue Thunder' as it is blue and has quite a thunderous sounding exhaust system with 63mm lake style side-pipes. Due to it not being a custom but more of a street rod I've also got a fairly thunderous sound system that's still to be installed. So far with my 54 I'm thinking of 'Mean Mr Mustard' after the South African band that goes by that name. That's due to the mustard color I want for the car.
my full kustom 53 chevy project finally has a name "poison ivy" shell be a flattened dark metallic green. the name comes from the song of the same name made famous here in australia by a band called billy thorpe and the aztecs, billy thorpe p***ed away yesterday from a heart attack at the age of sixty. so it settled my mind on the colour and name right then and there. "she'll really do you in, if you let her get under your skin...poison iiiiiiiivvvyyyyyyyy"
My '55 Merc was so rusty when I started on it we called her "Tet****" My '71 Cadillac he**** we call "Precious"
I had a 70 Chevy pickup called "Slick" cuz of the constant oil spot it left everywhere I parked for more then 5 minutes. The name stuck even after the new (leak free) motor went in. My 56 Willys Wagon was known as the "Green Dragon" back in my pot smokin days as it was green and there was always smoke pourin out of the windows. Later Jaysin
The Beast-Huge old Dodge Godzilla-Dodge ***mins took out an elk didnt even crack the grill Wilma-69 skylark special stationwagon for the librarian that drives it Pearl-Pearl white 63 buick skylark convertable Isabella- 1975 anniversary edition 40' Crown Coach (late ch***is and drivetrain with a cl***ic shell) AKA The Big Blue Bus, Bella The Celli-76 GT liftback Celica And a 64 corvair named Nader Mine get the usual expletives listed in posts above
Let's see, the 54' Ford Customline was "The Wander" 31' roadster was "Hoodlum" 50' shoebox was "Blackjack" Now the 40 Chevy PU is "Longshot"
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