I always thought cars and bikes got named after the fact. As in Grabowski's T or Chrisman's coupe. And after they had achieved some sort of fame. But to put a car together and cal it "Joe Smith's roadster" or whatever is downright stupid. Phillip Vincent named his factory after himself much like Ford, Chevrolet, Dodge etc. Egotistical? Perhaps. But Vincent earned his fame. If you have any doubts just ask Rollie Free.
Holy ****! Thanks for my new backdrop! That is an amazing rendering of a perfect deuce roadster. If the picture was clear enough I'd almost think about doin one of those cheezey life size vinyl decals for the garage wall...and I can't stand vinyl wall graphics!! JohnnyA
I once stayed at a Howard Johnson. I named an old Daily Driver "Tom Petty" because the tape deck had his tape stuck in it and that all it would play.
Sometimes others bestow a name on your car. I posted a pic of one of my rides on here years ago and someone got their ******* in a knot and referred to it as "that abortion". I thought it was hilarious that someone would get that upset about a picture on the internet of someone else's vehicle. So now it's officially named The Abortion. Even thought about lettering it on the side but probably not worth the h***les.
THEE Bodi C10.... there, I'm a legend. If I'd known it was that easy I wouldn't have been buying all these tools.
nothing wrong with naming things, it helps when referencing it. nothing wrong with naming something after your self, my dad named me after himself and i couldn't be more proud. as "need louvers?" wrote; it is all about the "the"...
Isnt that what you automatically do when you specify something? " which jacket are you putting on?" " The Carhartt jacket" "Which car are you driving?" "The truck" Which truck, the white one or the black one?" "The black truck, with the small trailer" I guess I'm not getting it...
What they're saying is that there is big difference between me talking about "The Art Gerrick Modified", and "The Bodi C10". It's understandable when I speak of the The Art Gerrick modified because it is a modified that Art Gerrick built, and although he may no longer own it, it will always be identifiable as The Art Gerrick Modified. On the other hand, if I speak of a modified that I just built as "The Bodi Modified" it sounds a little arrogant, and pompous. I can't imagine speaking of one of my car's using my name, it just sounds goofy.
I used to have a wallet that was known as the Chihuahua. Because I pissed a dog owner off by telling her it was made out of real Chihuahua fur. I thought it was funny, and a couple of my friends thought so too. So the name stuck...
You're right....you're not getting it. It's like this, are you going to say, "I'm going to hop in my roadster and run down to the shop". OR, are you going to say "I'm going to hop in THE ALEX ROADSTER and run down to the shop"?
It's all about how "the" is used. "That little chapel over there" or "THE sistine chapel" Is there a ****y air to the usage or not? If a name suggests excellence and the work backs up the name then cool. Nick names aside, it seems like when a car was featured that's when a persons name was lashed down to the car. I read the argument as if your a guy that is sticking your own name to the car and throwing in a snobby "THE" in front then you might as well be ELMO from sesame street.
actually a local magazine here used to quite often refer to any given car as the ex-soandso car. Sometimes it was the ez-soandso,ex-soandso car. must of been frustrating for some of the new owners who no matter what changes were made ,couldn't have a car recognised as THEIRS. just my .02
I hear you on the 'third person' description. We had a local 'auto tech/paint body/sound/graphic's/resto/cycle shop/detail/repair/ (you get the idea) have an auction and it was named 'The_______Collection' It was mainly bondo, rusty crusty field cars and a couple of dubious #muscle cars.
Oh man TOO FUNNY! One time I was sitting outside this Starbucks in the snooty part of Vancouver(which is actually most of it...) with this friend of mine, he was actually a pretty good guy, but some of the people he knew were a little pretentious. So we are joined by one of these idiots, and she has a chow dog on a leash. Shes a REAL obnoxious PC animal rights type idiot, pratteling on about womens rights to self determination, Al Gore, global warming, save the whales, ect, and Gary keeps looking at me and wondering how long its gonna take. So finally, i interrupt her stream of ********, and say "hey, thats a nice looking chow dog you have there". So shes all flattered, and says "oh, thank you very much, he's a pure-bred, bla, bla, bla" So I say "you know why they are called Chows right? Hes a beauty, should dress out about 30lbs". Gary sprayed coffee out of his nose...
Damm you guys gave me a few good laughs on a boring Thursday afternoon and caused me to have to explain why to a coworker. Yep, you can't name it after your self that just is uncool. I owned a 51 Merc coupe for 32 years having bought it in 1963 from the crafts shop teacher named Chuck Darlington who moved to Cashmere Wa later that year. All through the rest of high school and to this day a few of the guys I went to school with call it "The Darlington Merc". I don't think any of my schoolmates ever referred to it as Rob's Merc. A few of the self styled hot shots referred to it as "that old car" while we were in school in the 60's though and at 11 years old it was pretty old for a high school car then.
I have a name and design in my head should I decide to go forward with signing the doors on my truck. It's very original, deep with my families history, been around since the 50's and is garanteed to cause intrigue amounst most who might see it. Others may just say WTF? There is an great story behind it too that dates back to my childhood.
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