Do your cars have names??

OK, I found another member here who has a pet name for her car, and I thought it would be interesting to find out how many others out there have given their cars a name, and/or a personality.

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I've always had a name for my car.
In high school I had the Electric Red Death-Mo-Bubble, an 89 Geo Metro (BRIGHT red, bubble hatchback, and everyone thought I'd be killed if I had an accident)
Then my ex-hub bought his Dodge Dakota which we name Horse (Dudley Do-Right's trusty steed).
Next came the second Metro, a 95, which was alternately The SMURFMOBILE ( how do ya like that Wyan??) or The Shuttlecraft, since we took it everywhere around town.
Then we bought my 98 Cherokee - Eugene the Jeep.
Now I have a Camry, which I've dubbed Camille.

Doesn't EVERYBODY name their car?

My Honda - Rhonda
Buick Somerset - Spot (had lots of little rust spots on it)
Crown Victoria - Pimpmobile (had very dark windows and my friends named it)
Current VW Passat Diesel - Leisl

Daughter's Mini Cooper - William

my very first car was actually a truck, an maroon 89' s-10 with a monster engine and matching exhaust... it was lovingly dubbed "Diablo Roja"

my second car was a 94' red pontiac sunBird.... i actually didnt have an exact name for it... i usually called it everything but a car

my present car is a 01' blue pontiac sunFire... which i am having a terrible time deciding on a name for. i want something fancy/weird/unique... it will probably end up being "Hypnotic Blu Le Feu et Glace"(just Blu for short)

i am totally for having funky, unique (girl)names for your cars, plain old Shirley or Lucy is not any fun.... no offense to anyone named that, or anyone with a car named that! You cant(or you shouldnt-for your kids sake) name them anything funky, so why not name your car something wierd!

LOL, well, since I'm the other member ...

Not all of our cars have/had names, just the ones with personality. And since we keep cars f.o.r.e.v.e.r even though I'm 48 we haven't had that many!

Orange Julius is the '72 Chevy Cheyenne pickup. If I'da had my druthers, I would not have an orange vehicle, but there you are. The name just seemed natural and stuck.

The "Count" or Count Regal was my '79 Buick Regal which my sister bought new, and I bought from her. It was my first car, and just the most luxurious car anyone in the family had had up 'til that time.

Sis replaced the Count with a Camaro, grey, that she called "Ghost," and I know that she had a rather weirdly colored mini-van that she called Egg, short for Eggplant as that's about what color it was.

Sunny's not named any of his vehicles to the best of my knowledge, and the '97 Olds Cutlass which is our primary vehicle now (my mom gave it to us when she stopped driving) is really rather colorless personalitywise so doesn't sport a name.

Oh, it's not a car, but my motorcycle is named "Bastet," , no real reason really, but she just needed a name and seemed rather feminine to me. Ought to! She's purple and lavender, with grey bags and shaded purple windshield. Just shouts "chick bike" heh-heh.

Cindy

Nope not here. I voted but I do have a few choice words for it every now and then!

Originally Posted by Yosemite

Crown Victoria - Pimpmobile (had very dark windows and my friends named it)

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My mom had an older Olds Cutlass Cierra, we named it 'The Beast', it was pimped out from one of the previous owners, we were just to scared to name it anything 'gangsta' - plus it was my mom driving it

My first car, 1970 Toyota Corolla Sprinter -- pale blue fastback with black vinyl roof -- they were "in" then -- my Mum bought her a prezzie, before I even took delivery, and the card read, "To Susie Sprinter from Gramma and Grampa". Good thing the name actually fit!

My second car, 1979 Dodge Aspen SE stationwagon -- silver grey, with similated woodgrain side panels and red plush interior -- bad decision for a LOT of reasons, but she made some attempt at "class", so it seemed appropriate to give her a name with some dignity, Sarah Elizabeth. She got called lots of names in the two years I had her. What a lemon!

My third car, 1981 Honda Civic -- red, just a car, nothing fancy -- best little beast I ever had. Rufus and I were good buddies, and he took me everywhere for 17 1/2 years. Then the repair that was necessary to put him back on the road was going to cost two or three times his book value, and while that wasn't all that much, we really didn't need by then to be a two car family, so I said good-bye and now we both drive...

Sheba, Rob's 1989 Toyota Corolla -- white, sedate, but a good girl. She succeeded CarCar, his 1981 Datsun 510 hatchback. I don't know if he named any cars prior to CarCar.

My grandmother used to call her car (she got her driver's licence when she was 53!!) Jacob.

My one and only car, a 99 Chevy Prizm, is named Dante. No clue why but I think it suits him. )

Originally Posted by pinkdaisy226

My one and only car, a 99 Chevy Prizm, is named Dante. No clue why but I think it suits him. )

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Some cars name themselves -- Rufus did! Just like some cats name themselves.

This is great, you guys!!

Well, I come by it honest, because every car my father's ever owned had a name. Here are the ones I remember:

'66 Ford pickup - Ol' Blue Tom (ask me sometime how at the age of three I nearly killed his buddy while they worked on Ol' Tom!)

Then came Butterscotch - '79 Chevy 1/2 ton, named for his color as well.

And then Casper the friendly Ghost - white 78' Ford truck.

Then my dad was given a '72 International Scout which we named Rozinante - Dad's always been a bit eccentric, Quixotic if you will, so we figured his "steed" should be named accordingly. Man, he was a faithful steed, even after he scared the crap out of us with that gas tank leak!

Then the '86 Subaru Legacy wagon, which Dad put personalized plates on "RZNANTE" Can't tell you how many people had to ask for an explanation on that one. (It's only in recent months I've learned the "proper" spelling is Rocinante. )

Now he has a '73 Nash Rambler American (which he picked up for a SONG from a lifelong friend who had it languishing in a barn) but I don't think he's named her yet (goes offline to call and ask. . .)

I also dated a guy in high school who had a '69 Dodge Dart - black w/blue pinstriping. He had some horrendously long name for it, like 15 words long. I tried to remember it, but I couldn't. HIS nickname was Dirt (don't ask), so I told him, "Why don't you just call it 'Dirt's Dart'?" It stuck.

I once had a clunker of an old, ugly Impala that I named 'Bruiser'.
And an 86 Bronco that I named 'Bully'-long, wierd story on that one, I'll spare ya.

Okay I was thinking that I´m the only crazy that made that thing!

When I was child my family always had a Bettle VW, and we have a "gold" time in home and we have 2 VW, one of this it was Colour Yellow and we called "Tweety" the other it was colour beige, and we called, Owl! ....We have good memories of boths!

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My current car doesn't have any names...unless you count four-letter ones.

I used to have a brown '72 Chevelle that we named "The Brown Hornet", and I had a really crummy old red Chevette that I stuck glowing stars on the inside of the roof and called my convertible.

Originally Posted by CoolCat

Okay

I was thinking that I´m the only crazy that made that thing!

When I was child my family always had a Bettle VW, and we have a "gold" time in home and we have 2 VW, one of this it was Colour Yellow and we called "Tweety" the other it was colour beige, and we called, Owl!

....We have good memories of boths!

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"Tweety" !! I love it!!

Originally Posted by Tari

I used to have a brown '72 Chevelle that we named "The Brown Hornet"

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My ex's first car was a '72 Chevelle ragtop, which I dubbed "the Yellow Submarine" - he is a huge Beatles fan, and he loved it. Miss the rumble of the engine he put in that thing

Originally Posted by CoolCat

and we have 2 VW, one of this it was Colour Yellow and we called "Tweety"

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Perfect, Rigel!!! I love it!

NAmers here! Currently I have the 1990 Ford Econoline Van with gold fittings. And since my last name is Bond, she is "Goldfender".

The previous Van, 1987 vintage and my first, was Chitty-Chitty-No-Bang-Bang. Or Nellie Bell.

The family's 1963 Dodge Station Wagon was "Little Red Wagon". If that car ever started to talk, my sister would have had to leave town. As it was, when the wagon was on the way to salvage yard, the guy just happened to pull it by sister's house and she was able to say good-bye.

Sis bought a 70s vintage Duster from a friend and niece and nephew drove it. Light blue and black, it was christened the "Blue Bomb". Butt ugly, but their most dependable vehicle until nephew drove it into a ditch (we think on purpose to kill it!).

Nephew's girlfriend had a car that was missing its gas cap. She stuffed a rag in and it became "the Rolling Molotov Cocktail".

Bro-in-law's dream truck was a dually (four rear tires for the uninformed). But when he had to get a new truck, all he could afford was a Chevy S-10. He named it "Baby Dually" and made a sign for it - "When i grow up, I want to be a Dually!"

Originally Posted by RicaLynn

Miss the rumble of the engine he put in that thing

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Yep...the rumble of the engine is how it got the name. It sounded like a giant bee taking off. I loved that car!