Do You Name Your Cars?
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That monstrosity — the car, not the girl — is what I drove during my senior year of high school. The girl, of course, is me, circa 1990. We called it, “The Boat,” for obvious reasons.
While I no longer am suffered to drive that particular set of wheels, my vehicles still have names. When I was a kid, they were The Red Car, the Gold Car, The Blue Van, etc. During marriage, we’ve had The Hatchback, The Camry, The Truck, The Van, and The Scourge.
Naming our cars creatively, ie The Scourge, is a new phenomena, but one that seems to be sticking. What do YOU do?
Every car I have owned has been named for a song. Stormy, Alberta, Mary Lou, Layla, Runaround Sue, and currently Cracklin’ Rosie.
The only car we had when I was growing up was my dad’s beloved 1967 Plymouth Fury III. We called her Esmeralda – she was like a member of the family.
Our kids name our cars. The two old Volvo sedans were Edmund and Charlie. Edmund is still around town and we see him frequently (to shrieks of “Edmund!!!”, naturally….), Charlie is poorly, and on his way to car heaven.
The current, a 1995 Suburban is named White Rock. I was hoping it was a throwback to our Great Trip of 20-10 to Canada last year (White Rock’s near Vancouver), but apparently it’s just “white”, and “tough”. *sigh* LOL
Too funny – I was just going through my Saugus yearbooks over the weekend (I’m class of ’92) so I know this picture very well! 🙂 Yes, I have named some of my cars. My first was a red ’87 Toyota Tercel hatchback that I bought my senior year, and I named her Laquita. It just seemed to suit her perfectly. 😛
Centurions just come out of the woodwork! Yeah! Go Saugus! That’s such a trip. Thanks for commenting!
We have a Ford Explorer that we called ‘Dora’ when our kids were preschoolers. We went everywhere with Dora the Explorer!
THAT is hilarious. My husband would love that.
The first car I bought was a used ’95 Saturn Sedan. His name is Matchbox, and he’s still going strong, and is my husband’s commuter, although the poor thing’s air conditioner doesn’t work. Don’t ask how I decided it was a “he”, I’m a little strange, I guess.