do you name your ...

[nacktman]

Do you have a special name for your car, boat, bike, etc., if so please share it with us and the story on how and why it earned its name?

[Boreas]

I don't name my current car or whatever. I did have a 1979 Honda Civic, that was tomato red. My university classmates called it the killer tomato. I ended up naming her (the car) Phyllis, after Phyllis Diller. That is because my car had had a face lift (body job) and many of her parts were replaced or repaired.

I figure a car has to earn a name, or a name comes to the car, or whatever.

[fred950]

All of my cars have had names! My dad was a mechanic and he would frequently buy an old jalopy, put a few repares into it and then sell it (for a profit) or keep it as a back-up. (He had a 125 mile a commute.) At one point, there were 12 different cars in the driveway, all of them licenced. Naming them was a form of convienence. So instead of trying to figure which ex-taxi or which Impala or which Corvair etc. We would just say "I'm going to take LeRoy (an ex-taxi named for the milk man whom slightly damaged it while making a milk delivery[remember that?]) or Charlie (named after a favorite uncle) or Daisy (a Corvair Corsa...only my sister knows where that name came from).

My current "fleet's" names are Chuck Berry (my purple Escort), Truck (my pick-up. Think Dudley Do-Right. The name of his horse was...Horse!) and Annie (my current Corvair. I'd love to restore it but the budget just isn't there...yet "Tomorrow, Tomorrow you're always a day away") http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/anxious.gif

[nacktman]

fred, just named my ol'truck "ol'Bess" after years of calling her "truck" as well, she's earned her name now as she has been reliable for the past decade.
Got "th'ol'Gray Mare" a 1990 Olds Delta 88 Royale.
Got a 2005 Chevy 'Equinox' that is still finding her name.
Of course there's "Hot Mama" my HOG (That's a motorcycle to you Tripper and Stefan).
A canoe we call "Whitey" as in whitewater.
"Naked Lady" our sailboat and "Speedy Gonzales" the cruiser.

[FireProf]

I have in the past. We owned a van back in the day when it was really popular. We fixed it all up inside with a full bed, cabinets, SHAG carpet!! http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/shocked.gif This vehicle was called our "Love Mobile." "Should we take your car or the Love Mobile?" Many times the Prof said, "the Love Mobile." She cried when I traded it in. http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/happy.gif

I then bought a small SUV and had nothing but trouble with it. Transmission problems, engine problems....you name it. I'd get in it each morning and say, "just get me to work and back you "piece of (the other word for) crap!" It did....for over 14 years. Don't know why I kept it that long but to this day, I really miss that "piece of #@$%." http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/laugh.gif

After those two vehicles, we stopped naming them. We just call them truck and car now. http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/wink3.gif

[herooftime8]

I gave each vehicle I ever drove a name mentally, although I don't say it aloud much. Here goes.

The first car my parents had that they let me drive (a 2001 Monte Carlo) was called the Golden Power, because it was my first car, and I had never had that much power under my control.

Then my parents had a 2002 S10 they let me drive that I eventually wound up calling Sedna after hearing the name on BBC World News (when they ran a story about finding a possible tenth planet). By the way, I watched BBC News on the Evansville PBS station, but they have since discontinued it.

Now I have a gold(ish) SUV that I call the Golden Power A. It had the power to get me from Anderson to Evansville, a four-and-a-half hour jaunt, without relying on anybody else. Previously, I had to rely on my parents to drive me to and from school. The A was to distinguish it from the first Golden Power, in the spirit of Star Trek (mainly the movies, but also TNG).

[usmc1]

The names I give to cars, lawn mowers, trimmers, tractors and marauding coyotes, raccons and skunks and finger smashing hammers are not acceptable here.