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?
When my husband and I started going out we had “the fearless ford escort”, on the the last day it was parked in the parking lot at our apartment building (out side the window) it’s name changed. We both looked out the window because a bunch of noise and fire engine coming into the development. Her name changed to “the flaming ford escort”. The car wanted to end it’s life as it was parked in that spot for a day, by setting herself on fire.
My Son named our current car Kia Spectra a “50 ship” I do not know why.
My Dad came home with a brand new Ford Ranger in 1986. Our very first fun trip was down to the river to get sand for my sandbox. It semed fitting to name her Sandy. My dad still has the truck and she’s my baby. I won’t let him get rid of her in hopes that one day I’ll be able to restore her. There were so many good memories in that little blue 4×4. Now that I’m all growed up my husband and I carry on the tradition of naming our cars. We had a 1987 Dodge RAM Van for a while and it was my husbands first year as a pastor. It seemed fitting that we named her “The Holly Roller”.
Love the pic. I graduated in 92, and had a very similar outfit/hairdo. Hubby has a yellow Honda that has been named “the banana”. My minivan has no name, poor thing.
I haven’t ever named my cars, but somehow my husband’s old truck has been named “Big Red” by our children. Our van is really nice and relatively new, but yet the kids all want to ride in “Big Red.” 🙂
And I just have to say I love the photo! I graduated in 1990 as well, and my hair and clothes looked JUST LIKE YOURS!!
I had a Dodge Durango named Big Red! The name suited him well. 🙂
Oh yes! My Saturn wagon came with her name. She is Jenna. My husband drives a 1970 MG Midget, her name is Fiona. I have my eye on a new to us Saturn Outlook, his name will be Hugh. 🙂
The 1982 station wagon we had growing up was dubbed The Refrigerator, but when I started driving it 12 years later, we changed it’s name to The Uglymobile. My parents bought a 1983 wagon when my little sister started driving and that was called Hooptie. My 1985 Crown Vic was The Brain. My Ford Focus wagon is Itty Bitty (because it’s the smallest car I’ve ever driven).
I usually name my cars although I haven’t named my van that we got last March. I’ve had a car named Carlee and a van named Vanna.
Yes, I do. My big old Black Suburban was named Bessie for many years….until my little brother met and married a woman named Betsy. I have yet to rename my reliable old girl.
Yes!
When I was a teenager my first car was “Birtha”. I named my boyfriend’s (now my husband) car “Herman”. I’ve had a lot of cars (husband likes to trade them off!), but some of the names: Libby (Jeep Liberty), Cherry (Jeep Cherokee), Baby (another Jeep Cherokee), I call my husband’s gearhead car “the Princess” b/c she is better cared for than me, haha.. and my current car is Minerva (it’s a Chevy Trailblazer).
I never could come up with a name for my sunfire (which sadly got smashed up by a semi) and my uplander (which I currently drive) but when I was growing up we called my mom’s car “the big ugly” (it was also known as the green monster) and then she got a newer (old) car, we called it “the little ugly” lol. she still drives the little ugly.