I know you all have seen them- "Bad News", "Matranga" (hope I spelled it right) even "Black Magic" a 55' Chevy g***er here in the OKC area. When did the perfect name come to you? I am not really looking for one for my heap, can't keep my mind made up for 20 mins. One of my earliest memories was of Henry J that had "Sundance Kid" or something like that on the back quarter. I kinda wonder if it started as drags and circle track became more popular, you know to give your car a personality. I love all of the cool names I have seen over the years, on streeters and dragcars alike. Just wonderin' got to get my rambling thoughts out before tech week. Later, GO-rilla
When I finally got mine running, I thought "Finally! After all the time and money I've thrown at this heap, the last it could do is run." SO there it is, The Heap.
my sedan has been on a trailer 2 times since i got it running. last time the motor was apart in nine million pieces,we got it back together at about midnight the night before daytona. i wasnt in the mood to make a 350 mile test run, so i put it on a trailer. when i got to daytona, my buds started giving me hell about having a trailer queen, thus the name "queenie", nevermind the fact its got over 40 thousand miles on it._dan
Do you mean the name people put on the rear or the ones you call it when it first draws blood or puts a knot on your noggin? Usually takes me about an hour... Then it's "that Goddam, worthless, no good, evil, ornery piece of ****, ***hole, motherf...."
I posted pics of my project here on the HAMB, and Mutt said "Unless you want to build a show car called "Train Wreck", stop the build. So now I refer to it as the "Train Wreck roadster"
I picked the car up outside of Omaha and tried to drive home to Ohio...So after the 3rd time she broke down, outside of Peoria, I took a Sharpie I had and lettered on the trunk "Breakdown B***h". I will probably change that to "Breakdown Baby" when I get her on the street. After everything was said and done, it would have been cheaper to have her shipped. But I did meet lots of nice tow truck drivers and mechanics.... Tucker
So, has the Train Wreck been derailed, or do you have progress pics for us? A very unique roadster if I remember correctly. Glad to help.... Mutt
Oh yes ,the one that got away. Early 80's junkyard find that I couldn't s****e together $150 bucks for... Lil Henry J, well oxidized purple lacquer, orange plexi windows, tube straight axle w/no drop and peeling chrome, fibergl*** tilt nose,radical engine setback[although engine and trans were long gone], big ole dump truck lookin 57 Olds rear end and radiused wheelwells , and just enough lettering left to make out that name... Satan's Crate. Damn, what I wouldn't give for it now.
My scoot got stuck with the name "shrimp fried rice". None of the shop goons have ever called it anything other than that. Don't even remember how it got that name. My daily is called "no money millionaire" 'cause it's all green...I mean all green! Well except for the wheels, tires and gl***.
I've had some names in the back of my head for a long time that I have never used. For me about anything I build takes on a personality (even if just to me) somewhere between the start of the build and about a month after it gets on the road. Some have never had any personality at all and those have gone to new owners the quickest.
When I was first putting this car together; I got a 49 Merc coupe from the neighbor that his grandma experienced a fatality accident in. I used the steering column and the gearbox in this car. When my wife found out she said it was Bad Karma. So the car became Bad Kar-ma. I hyphenated he name for a dual meaning.
i started calling mine tuesday. broke down about every tuesday since i got it on the road but allways got it to limp home. but greg and the rest of the gmb call it the space herpie. cause greg said it looks like a space herpie from the movie ice pirites.
I give 'em all sorts of names...before, during and after the build. I originally named my 49 "Punch Drunk", but then DirtyT said it should be "Virginia"...since the old 1975 vintage Virginia front plate is still in place and the screws are rusted on. The rear axle bolts and gas tank straps on this rustbucket backed off...but those license plate bolts ain't movin'!! Guess she digs the name! It sure beats the hell outta driving around in a car called THE SPACE HERPIE!!!
I named my 33 pick up 'little *******'.. obviously borrowed from James Deans 550 Spyder. but the truck is pretty small, and was built from a bunch of different **** so it dosn't actually have a deffinate origin .... My 53 will be named after my grandmother who p***ed away back in 2000. She used to tease me all the time about bringing home all this 'junk'.. She would smile at me when she said it. She was VERY supportive of my 'sickness'. Anyway, this car to me has cl***, as did she so i thought it would be a nice tribute to her..i think she'd like this one. 'Josephine' will be painted on the dash. The rest of the car's have typical name's..****box, junk, toilet, money pit etc...... Tony
i got turned off froom car names after i helped this annoying chubby girl work on her bug while her boyfriend was watching football. i hate football and diddn't understand why he wouldn't help her or why he let some stranger work on her car, even though i'd never come near her in "that" way even if i was single. she had one, "Lois", a super beetle that caught on fire and wanted me to fix it with paper play money i guess. that car was a PIECE! and of course vw owners always have more than 1 (i have 2), she had another one that was nicer but no motor, i forgot it's name. she asked me what mine's name was, i said "i don't know piece of ****, i guess.", even though mine's a nicely restored, fast early model.......... getting past that recently, however, my buick special wagon is tenatively called "The Tradeout Special". It was written on an invoice for powdercoating i traded for some shirts. I've traded powdercoating, paint & supplies, labor on 'bags, have a tube grille in the works, all for signs, t-shirts, design time, etc. so while i'm at if anyone has anything they could use my services for, i'm looking for air ride parts!!!
No progress yet, the train's in the station for awhile while I finish up some of my other projects. That car WILL ride some day, if I can gather enough scratch together I'm going to have Junkyard Dog 32 build me a frame (rails with suspension set up) to replace the truck frame on the car, and I'm still planning to run the 305 V6, just to be different. Doubt I'll start any trends with it, but it'll get noticed, at least. Train Wreck will ride some day!
We have always called it Motion Sickness- Its a bog boat and will someday run fast I guess. On bad days I usually refer to it as the ****box boat.
I've been bored with my 55 Pontiac so I got girly and picked out her new paint color, a nice Ruby flake (my own personal color that I will unveil at Viva!). So my machinist named her Ruby No Go! **x Brandy
I hate corny names people commonly give cars now, but I may have unfortunatley fallen into this trend. My '59 is called "Thunderjet" after the engine, but its also the Gray Bomb, jalopy or what ever the hell else randomly comes out of my mouth. The '28 is El Mirage after its theme, and pop's '55 is Lucille from the movie "Cool Hand Luke" -Dean
I named my roadster "Sloppy Seconds" after all the used parts I put on the thing. But most of the time it and the 46 just get called "the Ford" hahaah that was real creative wasnt it.
Cheater Carl from Milwaukee would see build pics of my sedan and told me how evil it looked. He started calling it the Sin Wag'n and the name stuck.
Mine get refered to as crazy things like the 59 or the Rivi. I thought they came from the factory with names.
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