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?
Yes!! I name my cars and our cars, too! Currently I am driving “Betsy” in honor of Betsy Ross. This came to me when I saw that the name of her paint color was “patriot blue.” Before that I drove “Limmie” – hubby called her, a Grand Prix, “Lean Mean Driving Machine” which we shortened to “L.M.” and then I took to calling her “Limmie.” “Punkin” was my very first car …
Thanks for the smiles and the trip down memory lane 🙂
When I was first driving, my folks had an Escort wagon with panel sides (eeeeek) that we dubbed the “Cool Mobile”. Took us where we wanted to go, my friends couldn’t get their parents cars, so they were just as happy to have me driving 😉
My first car (in 1995) was a 1989 Ford Tempo. Seems like something was always going wrong with it, so I named it S.P.O.C. Stupid Piece of Crap when it acted up/Special Piece of Car when it was doing good!
My next car was a 1999 Ford Escort that was a beautiful blue color and kind of small, so we called it the Blue Berry.
My current car is a 2007 Mazda CX-7, which I just realized I never named. Guess I will have to work on that!
Yes, I do name my cars.
Blue mini van – Bertha
Taruas-Turtle
Blazer- Das Boot
my newest Eclipse – speedy
I am happy to see I am not the only one. lol 🙂
Yep. 1991 Chevrolet Corsica – “Spot” (b/c the paint came off in spots)
Then I had a Buick named “Ginger” and an Oldsmobile Cutlass named “Marianne.” My current Subaru Outback is “Lorelei” and my hubby’s Saturn SC2 is “Dixie.”
Cars (all vessels of transportation) are girls, I think.
I am currently driving “The Beast”. It is a 15 passenger van.
Pre 15 kids I had a mini van named “Chip” and my husband’s car at that time was “Flaky”. Both were lacking in the paint department, thus the names.
You might like the name of my first car Jessica… it was called ‘Jessi car’!!!
Yes!
My Corolla is Zippy
My Echo was named Silver Bullet
Our 4Runner is Scrappy (he is a bit older)
My ’87 Pontiac Sunfire in high school was named “Trusty Rusty”. Now we just have “the truck” and “the van”.
I’m not very creative in the car naming arena. I had the “Dodge Aries K Car”. That was it’s name.
“Would you like me to drive?! We could take my Dodge Aries K Car.” or “I parked the Dodge Aries K Car over there”. Royal Blue and not in the best shape the Dodge Aries K Car was a good memory, none the less.