my 55 desoto is named "ROSA", she Christines older sister(meaner too!)my 50chrysler is "Itner" after the last name of the original owner. my buick is called "Buford"now,but I used to call it "leaky bastard". The 68 dodge van is "The Bullit",dont know why for sure but probobly has to do with all the Coors light cans my brother in law left behind when he gave it to us. I call the wifes toyota the "go-kart" and the kids 88 escort "worthlesspieceofshiticantgetoutofandhateworkingon" or "waittillIgetmyhandsonthesumbitchthatdesignedthisfuckinthing" or ,well.....you get the idea
my 54 is (half a car) my wifes car (slipaway) or(10 min kustom) my daughters car is (the pumpkin car)
the 88 stang i had was "bad in10t" the 68 chevy i had was "lowROLLERchevy" if i can talk dad into building a T bucket with me, im gonna call it "why?" because i hear that all the time as it is ...
Mine got called the bloody cock knuckle...(it justcame out wrong one night in the bar). My neice, she's 6, calls it the ugly one?!?!
my '48 ford panel truck is Clarence. it just seemed like a clarence when i bought it (in 1973). my wife's '53 buick is Lucile. you'll have to ask her why 'cause i don't know.
Back in the early '60's there was a hemi powered (I think )MG roadster called the U.S. Mule that ran at Lebanon Valley.I don't remember much about it,though.
The first time my friends saw my yellow '40 Ford coupe,one of them called it "Big Bird." It stuckand that became my CB handle when we traveled. When I brought my Bonneville home ,my 16 year old son called it the "QE2".
Hack, Don't know if I told ya but that's a pretty cool old beater. Flo hmmmm, Hows yer flow? "Uh its linolium." Well, yuda hada been there I guess. I guess all my old beaters have been called something. Some get names right off and others earn 'em. We call the old truck, "The Pusher". originally we called it The Pusher Man, as in "gawd *&%# the Pusher Man." But it just got shortened up. The intention from the git was for it to be a push truck. hence the name. We've already named the roadster, but the name won't make any sense until it comes closer to being a roller. So I'll just leave it with the well informed until then.
I put a name on my car...The Real Deal. actually a play on words that nobody will get but me. Lots of cars with a full house painted on theirs sides in the 50s. They were all aces and kings. I used the lowest cards in the deck... 3s and 2s (arranged to read 32 twice). In my life, I'm more likely to get a boat of 3s over dueces than aces full of kings. When I was a kid in the 50s all the cool cars had a name. Then all of a sudden an edict from above came down making names on cars sissyfied. (the new defination of gay hadn't been invented yet) I don't know exactly when it happened but in our peer group names were passe'. not cool Some may think the name is pompous and holier than thou. Oh well. I'm glad that I lived long enough to have some cowl art on my hotrod but I've never said "I'm going to take "the real deal" down to the 7-11"
mine has 2 names. its a 51 mercury and im a jerk! so its named "jerkury" she also answers to "toilet"
Hi Mines guna be called 'IT'S YOUR VOODOO WORKIN' its an 1961 R'n'B song from Charles Sheffield. when it runs down the street, it must be a voodoo spell runnin it, its a 57Ford with a 4 1/2" roof chop!
Min'e called "10 Lbs. in a 5 Lb. Box". Why? Because it's an Anglia with a big block Chevy...... self-evident. Kevin in (near) Seattle
I hear Brandy calls one of her cars 'Fancy Panties'. Ha ha. My 55 Chieftain is fondly called 'The Harlot'. She acts up for me and not for Mac, plus, she laid around in my friends yard (a guy) for months before we brought her home. The Panel is just called 'The Panel' or 'The Tiki changing room or powder room', depending on who you ask. I have started calling Mac's Starliner 'The Other Woman'. I also have a 68 Mustang named Elvis. Mac wants to call it 'sold'.
Lets see, mine is "the coupe", but it has gotten complicated....Now that I have built a "hard core hot rod" coupe.....so, the "old 32 5w coupe" that I've had since the 60's, is the "orange coupe" and the "new 32 3w coupe" is the "black coupe" or the "rat"...dang, that was so complicated!!!!
My first car (back in '78) was a '40 Plymouth Coupe (283 & Powerslide) painted 1974 Ford metallic green. The story I got was that the previous owner got a little tipsy one day and had a striper paint "The Green Weenie" on both rear fenders. Nice job, but I took sandpaper to those fenders the first day I got it home...
my first 53 chevy didnt get a nickanme until after it got totalled. it then became "debbie the doaner." my new one doesnt ahve a nickname yet. the other cars in the club have been known as frankenstein, car-l, ladykiller, ol bessie lead sled.
My ex-gf's mom, who was down the block from us, half-jokingly referred to my '57 F-100 as "dicey", which was purty accurate for the starter alone. Hence, it became Dicey Donna. My '82 Volvo Turbo is the Swede.
i call mine black betty because one night on the free way she was running like shit and then black betty came on the radio and the car did a 180 and ran like a rape date all the way home now when ever it starts running bad or im racing some one i put that song on and every thing is fine Brett
I've been thinking of calling the Nomad I picked up this fall the "Divorce Maker", but we'll see how it turns out
ENDLESS STORY You know, kustoms are never really finished. That was pretty nice name for us last summer, though the name has been there for four years now!
I always name my cars for the person I got it from... My ford is named "Dick" Hmmm. maybe I should rethink this naming convention.
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