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?
We have 2 cars.
Our Expedition is named Xavier. When we bought him he “told me” that was his name.
Our Mercury Grand Marque is called The Limo. It used to belong to my kids great-grandfather before he passed away. That’s how we referred tonit when it was his and my dad would drive him places in it so, it stuck.
My Hubby’s asks what our next car will be named. I keep telling him I won’t know until we get one and it “tells me” what it’s name is.
Without plan, we have ended up with two white Jeep Grand Cherokee’s. We just refer to them as the ’93 or the ’96. My husband drives a Taurus that he likes to call the ‘Bull’. (rolling eyes)
We call my parents’ van “The Purple People Eater”, and my old Mercury Sable was “Polly” because the plates had the letters POL or “The Salylable” as my husband called it. He called his truck “Thor”.
The car I learned to drive in was a Cadillac Sedan de Ville. Yes, bat wings and all. It was “Baby” bc my parents babied that car. My first car was a honda. I didn’t drive it long bc it was a lemon. My next car was an Oldsmobile Caliet so her name was Caliet. She didn’t last long either due to my first accident(rear-ended someone that stopped at a traffic light that was green). My best car was a VW Jetta Hatchback, that is still my favorite to this day. She was dubbed a pregnant rollerskate by my best friend’s dad. Now we just have car and truck(a ford explorer, but hard for 1yo to say suv.)
We do!
The car my husband drives to work is named Precious. He used to enter it in car shows, I used to call it his precious car, and the name Precious stuck.
Our family van is named Vinnie. Because it’s tough. lol
Linda @ Linda’s Lunacy
http://www.lindaslunacy.blogspot.com
We always did growing up!!! We had a van named Robert, and a Savilla. We had Big Bertha and then Roberta…..
I have a little red escort & my son baptized it lightning mcqueen & that’s what we call it.
Funny post:) I had a 85 Dodge Aries that I paid $400 for in HS, and had it for 7 years without hardly any machanical problems besides a bent bumper. We called that “The Dodge” Then I sold it for $450! I then got red 91 Geo Storm, and we dubbed that ” the Storm, and the Chili Pepper” Now we have 2 Toyotas so they are both called the Yodas.
Of course I name all of my “servants.” The washer, the dryer, (Wetsie and Betsie) why I have even named my netbook (Sophie). When my folks got their first motor home it was blue…so it immediately became the Blueberry Bus, followed by the Green Bean Machine, and the last was Rosie…my first new car was immediately dubbed “The Buggy” by my dad because it was black.
So many machines, so little time to list all of the names, but I think the latest addition to our fleet will be “Goldie”.
So funny! I was a big haired girl of the 90’s driving “The Boat”, too, only mine was an Impala 🙂