You got a name for your car.

Do you have a name for you car, and if so how and why did you give your car that name. I named my car Lucille after B.B. King's legendary guitar. ** why ** well when I bought my car a 1923 t-bucket white w/flames a friend's girlfriend, said you got to give your car a name. I thought about it for a while and then when I got home I put on the T.V. and B.B. King happened to be on he played a song or two. And then he started to tell the story of how he named his guitar. And if you do not know the story here it is. B.B. King was playing in a bar, and then a fight broke out between two guys, fight over a woman, one of the guys knocked over a kerosene heater causing a fire, everyone ran out including B.B. But B.B. ran back in to get his guitar. Some one thought he was nut's for going back into a fire to get his guitar and said to him " You don't run back into a fire unless you are getting you woman so you better name your guitar after a woman" So he did, He named it after the woman the two guys where fighting for. Her name is Lucille. And then it hit me " Lucille " that's will be a great name for my car. P.S. I would like to post a pic. of my car {Lucille} but I do not know how

 

I named my mustang lucille because it was my first car just like it was his first guitar, my fairlane is named "the bondo bucket" for obvious reasons, and the other cars no names have come to me yet.

 

"frankenstien"- cuz its 5 diff cars, im leaving all the welds(stitches) so everyone can see that it used to be a 31 pickup with a 29 coupe ass end. and, its gonna be slime green and flat black. itll be goolishly fun.

 

My Falcon wagon is "Pauline" Named for my sweet, knockout sister-in-law who happened to be made in 1964 also.

My 30 Coupe is "Tiny Dancer" After my late daughter was a ballarina, musta seen her, dancin in the sun.

 

My son calls the '62 Rambler Wagon the Little Pepper because it's red like a red pepper.

My ex wife called it "that piece of shit" - big surprise, huh?

 

The Lyndwood rail I'm restoring was named "Alley-Oop" it was a popular song at the time The Danbury Modifiers were racing it. Built in 1959 last raced in 1962.

 

My roadster is Lil' Drifter....My ex-brother in law had a '57 chevy in 1961 with that name and when i saw pics of it, the name caught my eye.....It stuck with my till i found something worthy to put it on as sort of a tribute

 

p.o.s. all of em

 

that's my wife's name! she's also known as the Peebmonster...

 

You gotta frickin' rambler wagon?

did I tellya about my '63 990 Cross-Country with the 327?

I dunno whether to love you fer havin' one - or hate you for the same reason.

I miss mine...

snif

 

My '55 is named "Falfa" and carries a lisc. plate with that name. Hopefully, no explanation is needed.


Doc.

 

i've never named a car. i've called quite a few a son of a bitch at times. does that count?

 

the '56 Chrysler - Mabel.
the '63 Comet - the Vomit.
the '64 Ford-Falcon-Futura-Hardtop-Hand-Painted-Silver-With-A-Brush...Well, that was it's name.
Pop's '29 Sprt Coupe? Millie.

The only other car deserving a name is my current daily driver. He's named after the opening scene in 'The Road Warrior' where they have a shot of Mad Max hunkering down over the Falcon Interceptor's blower scoop. I get to play Walter Mitty on the way to work every day - peering over the cast aluminum shaker scoop. Therein lies the name - Max.

 

I call my 40 GMC "The Blue Truck" because, it's blue, and its a truck, and because blue is different for old GMC trucks.
Seems most of them, including this one used to be dark green or a bright red.
I call my MG "The MGB GT" just so I can be a smart ass when people ask if I like driving with the top down...
I don't call it "The Orange MGB GT" because it seems about 2/3 of the MGBs around here came painted orange.
I call my cats "Tuti," "Gizmo," "Alma," "Rebel," and "Bell the Cat."
I drove a '55 Olds Super 88 for 12 years and never painted it, never took a picture of it, and never gave it a name.

I give sculptures names, It's a good way to catalog them and occasionally let you relate to them to someone else and have them maybe know which sculpture you are talking about.
It also lets me name them rather than the people looking at them doing it anyway and "Untitled #1272" is just plain silly.

Naming a car when it is still under costruction can back fire when it is done. Remember that '50(?) Chevy we followed the construction of called the "Golden Calf" during concept and building that ended up being painted Red?
I saw it and it was a supurbly done wild contemporary custom car, but ended up with a different name so anyone following the Web Blog on it may not recognize it in person now.

Car's names sometimes are good at describing the car, like "Kopper Kart" and "Lil Bat," but some you go "what's with that?" at names like "Matador" or "Mark Mist". I love those two cars but never saw any connection with a matador other than maybe a cape color and the Mark Mist had a Continental front end, not a Mark?

Definitely, the silliest are the "tribute names" usually dedicated to dead celebs like Elvis, Marilyn or James, with the silly portraits and all that other "stuff."
Traditionally, a car might be named ONE song title, Like Chrystal Blue Persuasion" or "Mr Blue" or maybe "Leader of the Laundromat" on a long roof, but not an entire opus!

If the kick start only XLCH I had back in the 80's flooded, cold, it was called "Fuckin' Bitch" and rolled back into the garage and the unnamed Super 88 got to roll on another sunny day.

 

"Shitheap"!

 

I ususaly call them crazy stuff like the 59 or the 65. Sometimes when I'm feeling really fancy I call one the Rivi or the LeSabre. Ocasonaly when theres a automotivley inept person I've been forced to call the 59 the batmobile so they know which car Im talking about.

Maybe one day they will earn there own special name, but I've always thought is wasn't right to give yourself nicknames.

 

the name for my nova is project deep purple because of the car color obviously. and the band is quite awsome too.

 

Mine is "Dead Baby Red." I didn't have a name for the car, Mel thought it needed one. She was gonna call it lucy (because I just painted it red), but I shot that down. I didn't have a name for the exact hue of red on the car, so Mel threw out "dead baby red." I kinda like that one...might get it lettered on the car somewhere, but I don't think the vast majority of PC america would approve

 

I thought names were reserved for Lead East cars.

 

My '62 98 is Gretta. Has been since the night I drove her home the first time. My '64 is Oldsmobucket, a name it's been earning over the last month or so that I've had it.

Won't know who the new '62 will be 'til her and I go down the road together.

I only name the cars that earn it though. I've only been able to name a handfull of them.

Olson

 

It's got "Medusa" stripped on the back, don't know why, it wasn't me. But we just call it "the beast" or that "piece o' shit" depending on whats broken that week.

 

it was the modified

then it was the little car

sometimes it's the Model T

lately it's the little hotrod

someday it'll be that one car I had back in oh five or six

 

bae... korean for boat

 

I call mine ..."Mr. Money pit" for now
CAB

 

my 5 tone tan '77 volvo sedan w/ no shocks, a constantly draining battery, and no brakes, that went down the road kinda sideways was the "Vallejo death hoopty"

my '71 MG B Gt is "mud"

and my '64 Nova stay-wag is the "Tijuana Reject"

 

My van is known as "THE VAN", but i named it Maya after my dad's mexican food restaurant named El Maya. the logo was painted on the side when it was handed down to me. the caddy is named Suzanne because when i first got it going, i was watching mallrats and at the end when they walk into the sunset with the monkey, its name was suzanne and the song playing was called suzanne. i thought it would be a funny name.

 

Lets see ...
Electra Glide - "Marilyn" ... bucks-um gal
M-151 Army Jeep - "Sweaty Betty"
'55 Chevy - "The Five "
'56 GMC Napco - "The Tetanus shot"
'63 Corvair Spyder - " The Green piece of shit "
'58 GMC Carry-all - " The Burb "

The rest of the stuff hasn't ranked high enough or pissed me off enough for a name yet ...

 

The 1932 Ford mor-door in the photo has been "Blackie" from the first day it hit the streets,,,,I guess it was the paint job that begged for the name!,,,,,strange comming from a guy known for primered cars! HRP

 

Most of my cars have been named "sonnofabitch, piece-a-shit, dogdick, whorebag, monkeynuts, ...etc", depending on where I am stranded, or how much the part is going to cost.
Erron

 

Well, my old FLH shovel was Ol' Blue, because it was blue. The '55 Poncho, I'vve always called Louie, 'cause it green and white, and I had my bud, Rick Knight do the Budweiser frogs on the trunk .
DW