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Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by DirtyNapkin, Dec 16, 2012.

  1. flatheadpete
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    flatheadpete
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    Jim
    Carl
    Flo
    Al
    Steve
    Mel....The ideas abound.
     
  2. Seems rather obvious to me, Elektra
     
  3. fatmint
     
  4. Hates Chrome
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    Too me a vehicle always needs to earn its name. It's usually a name that is some kind of pun dealing with something that happened during the build of it.

    -Via Mobile-
     
  5. Deuces
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    Deuces

    Prom night dumpster baby.....
     
  6. judder_man
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  7. Salty
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    I was thinking

    "Spunk Monkey"

    Or

    "Snail Trail"

    But then again I'm not real good at the name thing....(cum dumpster is already taken I believe)

    Nice car tho....
     
  8. pwschuh
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    Electrasonic?
     
  9. bostonhemi
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    Moon River
    Moon Riviera
     
  10. Zombie Hot Rod
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    There's a lot of bad ideas here, lol.
     
  11. MikeRose
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    waka'mole'

    atomic avocado

    tinsel toad

    panspermia (noun: The theory that microorganisms or biochemical compounds from outer space are responsible for originating life on Earth and possibly in other parts of the universe where suitable atmospheric conditions exist.)
     
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  12. SquireDon
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    Fat Mint
    Mintsicle
    Seafoam Dream
     
  13. Fat Hack
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    Lunar Lady

    ...or maybe Plutonium Mistress.
     
  14. Dave Mc
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    Hang on Sloopy
     
  15. Mopar Jack
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    Cosmic Dream...
     
  16. Are you sorry you asked, yet?
     
  17. desotot
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  18. 64ONEOFF
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    THE LOVE BOAT....... Nice car
     
  19. 51 mercules
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  20. Griffdaddy4
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  21. I "vote" for the name "B (as in BUICK) LOW GREEN".
     
  22. randy
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  23. fordsum
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    The car sits low I would call it "Road Rash"
     
  24. F (as in fat) LOW RIDA
     
  25. Pre-K
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    On naming cars of the era...

    On October 19th of 1955, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Marianne Moore, was approached by a Mr. Robert Young of the Ford Motor Company and asked to assist them in naming a new series of cars. Said Young in his initial letter:
    We should like this name to be more than a label. Specifically, we should like it to have a compelling quality in itself and by itself. To convey, through association or other conjuration, some visceral feeling of elegance, fleetness, advanced features and design. A name, in short, that flashes a dramatically desirable picture in people's minds.​
    Moore agreed, and over the coming weeks, beginning October 27th, she sent to Ford a number of lists of delightful names, all of which I've compiled in a single list below, ordered chronologically. Her final suggestion, sent to Young on December 8th, was the amazing, "Utopian Turtletop."

    Incredibly, Ford ignored all of Moore's ideas and instead named their new car, "Edsel." It flopped.

    (Source: Letters from and to the Ford Motor Company; Image: Marianne Moore in 1935, via Wikipedia.)


    1. The Ford Silver Sword
    2. Hirundo
    3. Aerundo
    4. Hurricane Hirundo (swallow)
    5. Hurricane Aquila (eagle)
    6. Hurricane Accipter (hawk)
    7. The Impeccable
    8. Symmechromatic
    9. Thunderblender
    10. The Resilient Bullet
    11. Intelligent Bullet
    12. Bullet Cloisoné
    13. Bullet Lavolta
    14. The Intelligent Whale
    15. The Ford Fabergé (That there is also a perfume Fabergé seems to me to do no harm, for here allusion is to the original silversmith)
    16. The Arc-en-Ciel (the rainbow)
    17. Arcenciel
    18. Mongoose Civique
    19. Anticipator
    20. Regna Racer (couronne a couronne) sovereign to sovereign
    21. Aeroterre
    22. Fée Rapide (Aerofee, Aero Faire, Fee Aiglette, Magi-faire) Comme Il Faire
    23. Tonnere Alifère (winged thunder)
    24. Aliforme Alifère (wing-slender a-wing)
    25. Turbotorc (used as an adjective by Plymouth)
    26. Thunderbird Allié (Cousin Thunderbird)
    27. Thunder Crester
    28. Dearborn Diamanté
    29. Magigravure
    30. Pastelogram
    31. Regina-Rex
    32. Taper Racer
    33. Varsity Stroke
    34. Angelastro
    35. Astranaut
    36. Chaparral
    37. Tir á l'arc (bull's eye)
    38. Cresta Lark
    39. Triskelion (three legs running)
    40. Pluma Piluma (hairfine, feather-foot)
    41. Adante con Moto (description of a good motor?)
    42. Turcotinga (turqoise cotinga—the cotinga being a South-American finch or sparrow) solid indigo.
    43. Utopian Turtletop

    HAMB said I should post... :D

     
  26. Trichop
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    I LIke it!
     
  27. Mo rust
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    Cosmic cruiser..
     
  28. BootleggerJim
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    2LOW4U on maybe MOE, CURLY, I like it.........
     

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