Tiny
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Post by Tiny on Jun 21, 2011 12:29:26 GMT -5
One of the posters on the "Worst Car" thread mentioned their car by name... so I'm wondering who else has named their car? Is it just some of your cars or has every one had a name?
Me: 74 Nova - "The mean green Lima Bean" aka The Bean 82 Mustang - Sally (it was beige!!!) not because it was fun and fast. 89 Cougar - the Beast (it sucked up gas, took up alot of space, and felt like it was a rolling fortress when driving under 45mph)
Current 2001 Sebring convertible - no name - it's an old man car with no personality.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2011 12:31:21 GMT -5
Yes, by colour. Belle, as in Blue Belle, and Ruby, as in Ruby Red.
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Post by swamp on Jun 21, 2011 12:33:37 GMT -5
My first vehicle was Bluford (it was a Blue Ford Ranger) Second was Reggie (Red Jeep) Third was Reggie II (another red jeep)
I stopped naming them after that.
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Post by midjd on Jun 21, 2011 12:52:39 GMT -5
Heck, we don't even name our pets. Cars are beyond the scope (though I do refer to my red '93 Del Sol as "my baby")
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Post by alabamagal on Jun 21, 2011 13:06:58 GMT -5
Sometimes, if they deserve it. My DH drives his business SUV, we call it "The <business name> name car" even though it is an SUV and the previous version was called the same and it was a van.
Our boys had an '86 Isuzu Trooper last year. DH called it "The Craptastic Cruiser". My boys hated the car and refused to call it that.
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Post by thyme4change on Jun 21, 2011 13:16:01 GMT -5
My mustang was Trusty, Rusty, Musty.
Our new car is 'The Blue Bomber'
My husband's Buick was "The ICK" because the B and U fell off.
But, none of my other cars had a name that stuck.
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Post by Waffle on Jun 21, 2011 13:21:13 GMT -5
No. But a friend referred to my previous minivan as "the big red boat".
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Post by sheilaincali on Jun 21, 2011 13:22:12 GMT -5
My red Volvo is called "Betty" everyone refers to my car as Betty now. If I am somewhere and they don't see my car they will ask "Where is Betty?" First car I remember naming, strange the family and friends know the name now too.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2011 13:23:03 GMT -5
Best cut off of a thread title ever... had to click... lol...
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Post by NoNamePerson on Jun 21, 2011 13:26:21 GMT -5
I had a 62 Impala that I referred to as Piece of Sh##
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Post by MN-Investor on Jun 21, 2011 13:31:46 GMT -5
Not terribly creative - my Toyota RAV4 is "The Ravster". My DH's Pontiac Vibe is "The Vibester."
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Post by KaraBoo on Jun 21, 2011 13:34:21 GMT -5
'95 3/4 ton Suburban - The Beast '01 Chevy Silverado - orange - The Bass Truck (DH has a window cling of a largemouth bass about to eat a perch on the back window. Everyone that sees it comments on the picture). '10 Legend bass boat - very sparkly orange/cream - DH and I refer to it as the Mistress.
<<As a joke, I wanted to name the bass boat "Child Support" since both DH and I are supposed to receive CS (we don't currently, but we're supposed to)>>
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Post by Mrs. Dinero on Jun 21, 2011 13:35:51 GMT -5
Bonita is her name.
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Post by thyme4change on Jun 21, 2011 13:49:29 GMT -5
My mother's name is Bonita. She would be ticked if I named a car the same thing. LOL.
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Post by Mrs. Dinero on Jun 21, 2011 13:55:05 GMT -5
She's beautiful though. This topic was discussed on here before and I think the majority of people thought only DBs named their cars. Oh well.
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Post by Bob Ross on Jun 21, 2011 13:55:52 GMT -5
DF and I sometimes (jokingly) refer to my Eldorado as "The El-Dogg", due to a handwritten note from a prior owner that I found scrawled in the CD changer manual which said "CD changer for the El-Dogg". Fo' shizzle my nizzle.
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Post by Catseye on Jun 21, 2011 14:14:06 GMT -5
My favorite aunt, God rest her soul, always named her cars. Her favorite car name was Suzie. I tried to name my '89 Buick Skyhawk but it just didn't take. Can't remember what the official name was, but I do remember most of the insulting names I called it when it turned into a piece of crap. ;D
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Post by Cookies Galore on Jun 21, 2011 14:39:03 GMT -5
My car is Steve Austin.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2011 14:42:25 GMT -5
Name the car... no... but the kids named the dent on the back left... they call it alternately the Freedom Dent, or the Liberty Dent... as in we now have the freedom to drive how we want and the liberty to crash into anything, because it no longer matters...
Me: Is that our car over there? ... Child: Yeah, i can see the Liberty Dent...
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Jun 21, 2011 14:48:08 GMT -5
Current vehicle is a bright red Nissan Versa. My DH not only named it, he labeled it with (very small) stick-on letters across the rear windshield:
"Tin Tomato"
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Post by tractor on Jun 21, 2011 15:04:11 GMT -5
My wife's expedition was chrissened "the green turd" by one of my son's friends. It kind of stuck. Other than that, I don't name cars or tractors.
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Post by moneymaven on Jun 21, 2011 15:04:24 GMT -5
Rupert is his name...
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Post by debtheaven on Jun 21, 2011 15:07:03 GMT -5
I had a colleague named Rupert LOL!
My Suzuki was named Zuki.
My Renault Modus is named Lotus the Modus (Lotus for short).
One of my close friends in college had a Wanda the Honda.
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Post by Phoenix84 on Jun 21, 2011 15:15:28 GMT -5
I've never named my cars. Growing up it was either "the van" for my mom's car or the blue/red car for my dad's car depending on the color of car he had at the time. Creativity doesn't run in my family.
I am single and have one car so there's really no other point to naming my car except for my amusment. So far I haven't felt the need to amuse myself in such a way.
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Post by dragonfly7 on Jun 21, 2011 15:17:45 GMT -5
My parents rarely name cars. The last one was an light blue Oldsmobile station wagon with wood paneling named Clyde.
I have always just referred to each one as the car, the truck, etc., but now that we have two of the same thing, just different ages and colors, we might need to differentiate a bit more.
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Post by cronewitch on Jun 21, 2011 15:19:53 GMT -5
My 78 Ford F150 is known as the good truck. Dad bought it new and sold it to me at 10.5 years old. My other truck was in the shop and I drove the 78 to his house. He said it was a good thing I had the good truck. Now the good truck is my nephew's truck. It is sometimes also known as Grandpa's truck or Uncle Virgil's truck to my cousins.
My nephew will never be able to sell the good truck so the thing may be around another 30 years. He wanted to get collector plates so he doesn't need to license it every year but then you aren't allowed to haul trash to the or help people move or anything so why own the good truck? His dad and sister borrow the good truck pretty often so would be without a truck if he sold it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2011 17:00:06 GMT -5
I don't remember for sure but think only two of them were named...a Voyager that we called Grocery Getter and the 7-year-old Forester that I still drive. She's Kanga.
Wait. TGH had a Toyota pickup. It had a vanity plate, "Joestoy".
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Post by thyme4change on Jun 21, 2011 17:20:06 GMT -5
hey - I love that. Since we now have 2 Honda's we are having trouble, because we keep saying "Hey, are we taking the Honda today?" So, maybe I'll start calling the old white Honda "Wanda" (White-Honda.)
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Post by mcsangel2 on Jun 21, 2011 22:51:37 GMT -5
Mine is Carly (the Corolla). I had 3 others before this one that didn't have names.
DH drives Christianna (white Toyota Celica). DH's friend had the exact same car, but in black, that was named Otto. (as in, otto-mobile).
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Post by chiver78 on Jun 22, 2011 8:51:26 GMT -5
good to know I'm not the only weirdo out there. besides Phyllis from the other thread (a very cranky, rusty old car), my sister and I had: Skippy - a generic metallic (not really silver, not really gold?) Honda Accord hatchback the Silver Bullet - a silver '85 Pontiac Sunbird hatchback, with a red racing stripe up both sides. it met its untimely death one spring break, when I skidded on some black ice here in MA and eventually hit one of the pillars holding up the local mall's parking garage...taking out a sapling on the way. my dad told me, upon retrieving it from the tow yard, that the radiator had been pushed into the engine. Bond-O - the gold Camaro that had been purchased for $150, that had more bond-o and duct tape than paint. there was a trick to opening the driver's door. someone popped the lock to that door at a mall, and couldn't get the door open to steal it. why steal Bond-O, you ask? because it was from that 10+ year period where Camaros were *exactly* the same - perfect parts car!
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