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Who Names their classic cars?

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]I'm a bit worried as I've had the LE almost a year and it hasn't told me it's name yet [/QUOTE]

hehehehe...its telling you, chuck, that it wants to come live in the GarageMahal!!

I name all mine...."the Vermillion 79", "the 1100", "the '67 GT", "the rubber bumper GT", "the green MGC"...those are the names for some of my cars - can you guess the names of others of them?
 
I think I have named every car I have ever owned - but that might be because they have all had enough personality to be part of the family.
 
ooops, my daughter did name the 1100 back when she was in high school..."the Beaver Cleaver car", she called it (as in, "Dad, my friends & I are taking the Beaver Cleaver car to the movies.")...& then before the day was over I'd get a phone call from the MP's, "Colonel Barnhill, your daughter is going around corners too fast again in that little car." as she & her friends were always trying to turn it over but it wouldn't even lean into the corners!
 
All our cars have names right now--just seemed to earn them:

60 Bugeye = Tunebug (paid for with money from playing music)
03 Hyundai = the Moo (liscense plate 182MUW)
02 Isuzu Rodeo Sport = the Sprout (bro-in-law called it the Rodeo Sprout since it is green)

Haven't really named cars before, but these names just happened along and stuck.
 
1952 TD - "Gloria"
1967 GT - "Serendipity"
1974 GT - "Yogi" (PO Named her)
 
jlaird said:
You don't name them, they pick their own.
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Typically I don't name my MGB's but my 67 S-Type earned the name 'Cher'.... High maintenance you-know-what , dressed in shiny black , and very few original parts .

Alan T
 
I agree, they pick their own names after some time with us...right now mine is called S.O.B. but of course this will change once all of his/her quirks are known.
Cheers,
-Mike
 
Tony that car doesnt want to visit you at all, I've promised it to my kid if she can manage to graduate college in 4 years, 3 1/2 to go
 
I hope it's a "Prime Motivator" for both of you.

Just use the word "WHEN" a lot.
 
if she pulls the 5 year degree off in 4 years, she can have the LE, they made more
 
My wife named our 77 B Molly. She said the car just looked like a Molly. The name stuck.
 
Named every car we have had since 1976 sometimes multiples.
Calvin- Cougar
Tommy- Toronado
Johnny- Jaguar
Jerry- Jaguar
Johnny-Ride Em LawnMower
Monty-MGB
Jimmy- Jeep
Eddie- Explorer
 
"Old Gold" was "Goldie" to the previous owner. The local club president has a TR2 "Old Red'. I said my car had an old gold paint job from when it was resprayed (badly) in 1971, and it stuck.


(its nugget gold, a GM color. )
 
My wife decided our Midget would be called Mardi Gras.I don't know why,except she's Cajun. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif(my wife) & I suppose the car is too! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cool.gif

Stuart.
 
I owned a 59 MGA for 20 years named Annabelle. There was a TV commercial in the late 60s & early 70s advertising lifetime guaranteed mufflers from Midas (I think). The actor/character was a Mr. Cleary who had his lifetime guarantee in his coat pocket on his 1930ish Ford Model A. When asked by the mechanic "are you EVER going to sell this car, Mr. Cleary," he responded "I'll never sell Annabelle." After 20+ years, I finally sold her.

My 87 XJ6 is named Brittany, which means "From England."
My 65 BJ8 is named Janey Car, named in honor of a 20+ year old Calico cat called Janey Cat. SWMBO at the time named that one. Janey will do.


Rob
 
I have to agree that they sometimes name themselves. After years of faithful service, and no name, my TR6 became 'Josephine' during her rebuild after being car #8 in a 40 car mix up. For those of you that are up on your history. Think about Napoleon's 'Josephine'. If you need help, I'll explain some more. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif
 
Mine are both females. The '75 is Emma, because I was always saying, "I'm gonna put in an overdrive, I'm gonna I'm gonna I'ma gonna -- Emma just sort of happened.

Binabox is the '66. Named because she pretty much WAS a B in a box when we got her. Or several boxes to be exact. She was 95% torn down and everything was tossed in countless boxes.

The next one is Anna. "Anna told ya we'd get a third one..."
 
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