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?
Absolutely! My husband’s Honda Pilot is named Amelia, I drive The Whale (15-passenger blue van).
We had a pink Ford Festiva named rosebud and an 1980 diesel rabbit dubbed The Bunny. Our boonie car we drove when we first got to Guam was The Flinstone Mobile (you could use your feet to start it or stop it- just keep them up while you were driving it)
My first car was a truck named “the rust bucket” Ugliest truck in my high school as you can imagine!
Oh my gosh, I drove a 1978 Ford Thunderbird too. Mine was two toned brown. Ooooooh. Impressive huh? It didn’t have a hood ornament because this lead foot, country girl took it through a barb wire fence.
My parents gave it to me in college. I guess they didn’t think I should be riding my motorcycle anymore.
I wasn’t sure if it was a blessing or a curse. That thing was huge. And yes, it was also called a Boat.
I actually don’t, but I should! I love it when other people name their cars! Now, should my Jeep Cherokee be a girl or boy?…
We name just about every car we have ever owned! My parents started the tradition with Florence the 1970 VW convertible, and Homer the station wagon. Now, I drive “poor ‘ole Bessie”, a minivan. Every car seems (at least to us) to have its own personality….and gets a name that’s fitting.
We had the “banana boat” – a 79 oldsmobile. It was yellow, and my brother put chiquita banana stickers in it because they had Spanish words on them. Go figure.
My first car was a 1995 sea-foam green Toyota Tercel. Please find a picture if you are not familiar with this 🙂 My boyfriend, now husband, called it the tinker toy because he thought it looked like a wind-up car with a big key on top. However, the name that stuck was The Turtle because of its shape and color. My friends in high school started calling it that and I had to embrace it. My fondest memory of the turtle was when my husband and I were bringing an old two-seater papasan to the goodwill. We stuffed the pad in the trunk but had to tie the “shell” to the roof. Do you see where I am going? We drove a good ten miles in The Turtle with his turtle shell on top. I was rather funny 🙂 Sadly, The Turtle bit the dust in a Minnesota ice storm a few winters back. I was not meant to be a winter car 🙁
In high school, I drove a Honda CRX, which my friends and I dubbed “the moon patrol”. But that’s been it.
Love the photo! That hair was rockin! I wish someone would bring big hair back. =)
We had a green Malibu when I was a kid and my sister and I called it “The Green Mean Puke Machine.” But we don’t name the cars now. That name, though, has stuck with me and will forever.
Of course! My brothers and sisters and I have always named our cars and vans, but the easiest to name are the trucks! I think my favorite name is my brothers red muddin truck, we call him Hank 🙂