Street Cars With Names

Never named a car in the last 40 years...
Now the Vicky, her name is gonna be "Rosebud"

Terry

 

Leap Frog ?

Well I obviously named my car, EVOLVO. It's a Volvo that has gone through a major evolution and I believe in evolution.

 

I've never seen the attraction for naming a street-driven car. A race car, sure. A street car? Why? Keep in mind, I've owned several hundred vehicles over the past 35 years or so. Never named one. I've owned one of those for the past 30 years, and a couple of others I've had for over ten years. No names.

My Dad did name a '54 Willys CJ-3B "Kidney Killer" and painted that under the windshield, like they did in the war, but that's it. One.

 

One its a age old tradition,two it helps make it more personal........and if you'ce owned over 200 cars in 35 years that works out to changin cars every 5.7 months so that would be understandable that you would not name them.............

 

"Age-old tradition"? I know three guys that name their cars, not counting the folks here that state they do. And, yeah, I've owned cars from anywhere from just 15 minutes to nearly 30 years. That has nothing to do with my view on this. I just think that naming a street car is silly. Race cars, sure. Trains, warbirds, tanks/HUMVEES/APVs - absolutely! Street cars - nope.

 

My cars aren't my friends. I do name my imaginary friends, though.

 

Do it i think its cool to put a name on your car

 

Go and do it!!!
Your building it so that makes it cool. you can't buy cool, it aint something you can put a price on and it all depends on you show your pride!
A cowl hood, badges and airshocks or even a bigblock do not take a beater or basemodel camaro chevelle mustang, charger, duster or elcamino and turn it into a musclecar...
Don't even say musclecar clone unless your ready with a barf bag.
With the exception of the Pontiac judge...gay stickers on a good car, musclecars were all gay'd out high performance versions of regular cars (gay as in inapropriately happy; not as in angry leathered street mobs)
Fancy schamancy with the ability behind the glitz is like...

Sticking all the gay stuff on an econo-ride is like ....

 

well i had my 55 lettered a little and it was known as black magic for a long time, then black magic two and now the boss. check em out , but im an old guy that likes that shit...

 

Most street cars are named already...Nova, Camaro, Chevelle, Belair...I think there are some others but who cares!
Do what you want! After all, it is YOUR car

 

My car's name is Miss Pearly. As another member stated the car has to earn the name. For those of you that have seen the "Friday" movies, Miss Pearly was the bit$% that told the two brothers that "tonight you two MF's are going to kick in and pay the rent". When I first brought this car home it was so moody and bitchy that when I saw the movie I started calling it Miss Pearly as a joke. I would not put the name on the car though.

 

No writing but refer to mine as zero tolerance beacause everything just fits in.

 

a Hamb member referred to mine one day as " Lil Beast"....been calling it that since,,,never thought about if it would get painted anywhere on it..hell i have to finish building it first!!!!!!!!!

 

but you never keep a car pat????????????? name it gonesoon........

 

Well , my 55 got a name . " Stump Jumper " Kinda like jail break for a car lol . It was found with a tree growing between the a arm on the driver side and the fenderwell . Generally a tree growing through the middle of a car is like a life sentance in prison to us , But my 55 got the tree cut down and freed , hence " Stump Jumper" thought it sounds good and oughta go good with the stance from the straight axle.

 

I've had several cars lettered "The Mad Polack", all street cars. My pro street Marlin is named "Pro Carp". Lots of trucks with names, "Moby Dick" big white van, "Big Blue" 62 Ford F250 4x4, "Ugly truck" a pieced together 73 Ford F250 4x4. Had a Tbucket race car named "DirTy Deeds".

 

TOMMI GUNN is my favorite name ! What ever happened to that car ?

 

Sammy, let's see, the cars I have in my ownership, running and driving, I've had for:

29 years ('66)
10 years (my driver)
5 years ('37)
4 years (wife's driver)
3 years (wife's '78)
and three others right at one year. ('48, '56, son's trucks)

Not much turnover there, is there.

And, I haven't had a desire to name any of them.

If I ever have another race car, I'm sure it'll get a name. Race cars get named. Street cars do not. Simple, really.

 

This is a local car.



Everyone calls it the hemroid probably because of the Italian sports car/riddler car interior in an otherwise traditional car.

 

With the help of friends, girlfriends, they get names, sometimes just curse words..my 55 was the "Leper" because it started out lime green and as my first paintjob deteriated it got grey primer spots..my 57 Powerwagon was Rhino..my 66 Nova wagon was the car that would'nt Die..My 58 Ford tow truck was the Brown Bomber and my 66 Chevy tow truck is the Blue Goose..I've been calling my Cadillac Cool Jerk and I know another car referred to as FuzzBox..I would'nt paint any of that on the car of course...

 

Had a car with different colored parts all over it was dubbed the Gonzomobile.
Had a car with bad mufflers and rusty floors we called "the sleeper"
Had a chevy chevette hatchback was called "the vette" or "pickup trunk"
Had an old farmers 58 f350 dumptruck they called "ol poopy"
Have a white 63 skylark and red 69 cougar I want to build into a pair of altered race cars named "White Night and Red Dragon".

 

my '26 dodge touring military theme is "Trench Rat"
my '28 sport coupe that nobody helps with but wants to cruise it, my wife calls "the Little Red Hen" and the black '64 pontiac Grand Prix we affectionately call "Lilly" dark, sexy, and just evil enough to keep it interesting. they all have names, but the girls don't always tell ya!

 

Used to be a gold flaked 57 running around the terre haute area with Rainmaker on the the sides. Was nice. or maybe I was young and just thought it was.

 

What about logging trucks? Used to be a couple up in Maine where I grew up that would come into town on Saturday morning with the wife and kids to get groceries and the like.

The two trucks were named "MISS CARRIAGE" and "MISTER PERIOD"

 

My 63 Dodge Max Wedge is called Milli Because it was my wife and I's millenium project.
My 94 Dodge Ram V10 (first ever order number --001) is called Bertha. What else would you call a big blue 488 cubed plain jane pick up?
Don

 

Our Cadillac SUV is called Oprah;
1. It's big
2. It's black
3. It's rich

 

hey 56 GASSER...i'll tell you a good way to know if u can name him/her.who paid for it, (NUFF SAID) hey your allmost here, now come in from the dark side luke! man if you could have seen the turnout at the last dragstrip. O mamma what a show, and a little freak show on the side. HA!call me POP...or the old FART!

 

Named my 50 Buick "Purdy", because I think she's a purdy girl. Once I really start working on her that could change temporarily to "you BITCH!" if I run into problems.

I don't plan on writing the name on the car. I'm considering a vanity plate, but mostly the name is for me and my friends to use. Plus I fully realize that name could change over the course of ownership due to circumstances (good or otherwise) that imprint on the car's new history with me. Which is why I'm hesitant to get the vanity plate right away, honestly.

 

Named mine wile working on it, hit my thumb. It's called "Daminitsonofabitch"

 

i call my 34 tudor forgiven because i have been forgiven and had a second chance in life and my car was also forgiven and had a second chance