You got a name for your car.

Eric- you know you love that name, Dead Baby Red. It fits your car so nicely


I name everything that's either living or has a personality. My plants? Of course... they're named after fashion designers. The spider that lived in the corner of my bathroom? Yes, even he had a name until the cat ate him. Rest in peace Fernando.

Cars fall into the personalities category, so I give them names as well. My Pontiac was dubbed Baby Cruiser since it was newer than the previous Buick I drove and was about half the size. The Dodge is Miss Charlotte because when I first had her home, I kept finding spiders in the darnest places.... even the fin tips had corpses in there.

 

My buddy named my '64 Ford Custom Tudor "Ellwood" the minute he saw it. This old goat is a complete stripper...223/3 speed with no options and looks like the kind of car that a budget minded preacher, farmer or traveling salesman would've bought back then...


Jan

 

the 64 wagon is "woodro"...nuf said?
the 61 Falcon wagon is Millenium Falcon"..cause i plan to actually finish it ...this millenium!
58 anglia is the "sonic Muffin"
76 Marquis -(lowrider) is the "mothership Connection"
59 International ambulance is "bad results"
48 Olds(getting a BBF) is "OldsMOFO"
66 Rambler rag is "gramps"..cause he left it to me
28 Tudor is "T Bone".....because !
dats enuff

 

58 olds -- Marilyn

 

" Luke "

The most well known 1950's Moonshiner in these parts was named Luke.....and this ole 40 Ford coupe was a Moonshine tanker... ..so it became Luke.....in his honor....

The 32 Roadster has not ever had a name......but my wife named the 32 3W on the way home from getting it........ " Little Sister " and the name has stuck.......

 

I'm kinda like Fat Hack...I used to have names for all my rides.

Now I can't remember any of them...I guess they werent too meaningful, hu?

I love the thread though - I like reading about the other names and origins.

 

Hey I gotta 55 chevy truck, looks ruff on the outside, but kicks ass. I have been callen her "Carmalita" or should it be "Truckalita"?/

 

Mine is Black Magic , all gassers have to have a name and it is black and still believe in magic............and I had to have a name on it to race godzilla so the anouncer would have a name for it besides the "little 55"......after all my cats names are white cat gray cat and mom kitty so you see it doesnt take much to amuse me............

 

I named Heyitsnate's roadster the Jalapeno at BilletProof. He must be so proud.

My 55 Star Chief is The Chief because he's SO big, old and silent. Like a Chief.
My 58 Chevy Biscayne is the Biscuit.
The 27 Pontiac I'm buying from Junkyard Dog has been dubbed the Wisconsin Warrior.......he dubbed it not me.
My 55 Pontiac Sedan is the Fancy Panties because she's NOT a cheap date.
xxx
Brandy

 

HAH! Brandy, you made me snort, I laughed so hard. 'Fancy Panties!'

My 55 Chieftain is fondly called 'The Harlot' acts up for Mac, and she laid around in my friends yard (another 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 am going to start calling Mac's Starliner 'The Other Woman'.

 

The first car my wife and I bought together after we got married we named Rachel. We sold the car-a piece of junk actually-but we like the name so much we named our third daughter Rachel. Fortunately,she's turned out to be a great kid-volunteering for Americorps right now.

 

1959 Edsel "Black Betty"

the Wheelchair accessible van in the background is "The Hot Rod Van" if you ask my son or "Large Marge" is what everyone else calls her...

 

I call my truck "Patina El Coco".

Long story

 

She is Fancy Panties. No beer and fried chicken for that girl, she's Champagne and filet the whole way. Fuggen car.
OH NO Missy! The Harlot doesn't ACT UP for Mac, she turns over like a harlot for Mac. The rest of us have to beg and plead with her to start. Fuggen car as well! The Panel is also the JELLYBEAN. As for the Starliner, yup, she's certainly the OTHER WOMAN! Never seen a man fuss over a car SO much. Next thing ya know he's gonna sleep in it. Too much weight in the back! ***grumble grrrrr****
xxx

 

My wife calls all of my cars junk!

 

My 39 Dodge Sedan is named Annabelle, well a friend came up with it. Actually it was more of a collaboration. My 56 Ford is Brody. Why I named her that, I couldn't tell ya, I just liked it.

RRR

 

my 31 is called "the dirty sanchez"......real long story

 

my '54 ford i named Irean after my paternal grandmother...

"I beam and she'll cream, cause nuttin'll scream like Irean"

i know, poet i aint

 

I named my '59 Cadillac Christine...it just seemed to fit her, even though it's not a '58 Plymouth. My '30 Model A coupe is named The Cadillac Kid, for two reasons...One, because I bought my '59 Cadillac 9 years ago when I was 20 years old, and the bass player in the band i was in at the time said to me, " What are you doing with that car, you're just a kid". So they all started calling me the Cadillac Kid, and it's just kinda stuck with me all of these years. The other reason came about as an idea after seeing the California Kid at Back to The 50's one year.

 

here's my '51:

 

My A is called

"The Beaver Cleaver"

 

My father calls my van the green mamba.

 

My 51 Chevy is named "chicharrone" because it is greasy like a pork rind.

 

I called my old coupe "The Gay rod" because it was gay..but its not now.

had a '57 chevy that I called Maybeline after a carb adjustment went wrong.

My '31 sedan was the C-dan, but most are...

'61 Buick was "the Boo-Ick" because it sounds like "Buick"

My '86 Mitsubishi truck is "The Red Badger" because it is indeed red and is a scrappy little guy. Plus, I painted the hood matte black to match a real badger's nose. (badgerbadgerbadger.com)

My Triumph, I call "Purple Vein", my old porn name. Long story.

My '65 T-Bird is "The Bird" because it has "bird" in the name and its a T-Bird.

My '92 caprice Classic is "Bulbous" because it looks like a whale.

Need I go on? No.

Spike

 

My bucket is known as 'The Petr Beater'. My buddy Bill calls me that and everyone decided it would be a good name for the car.
Plus, it really beats the hell outta me.

 

Money eating, knuckle busting, argument starting bitch. And I say it with a big smile.

 

'Bomb-in-a-bucket'

 

I'm stuck between "Event Horizon" because my car has got to be inhabited by aliens the way it fights me, and "out of control" because the whole project really got that way.

 

The '29 RPU isn't far enough along to come up with a name just yet. Potential one is maybe "Wilbur", named after the Univ. of AZ wildcat mascot. My wife and I both graduated from there and I'm considering a red/blue combination for paint. YES, I said paint not suede. Red wheels, engine block and pin stripes and Washington Blue body/bed.

The '98 Explorer daily driver is "the car" by my wife. To me its the UAV for "Urban Assault Vehicle". That's a swipe at the politically correct crowd who are against SUV's. NO, I don't carry assault rifles on a gun rack inside.

 

Planing to call my next car for "La Puta". My Green Vauxhall is called Victor cause it's a 1957 Vauxhall Victor Super.