BangShift Question of the Day: Do You Name Your Projects?

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[oldrustycars]

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66 Impala was Ginger. 2007 Impala is White Lightning, because it's white and was struck by lightning. Gremlin was the Gerbil. 73 Chevy pickup was Rusty. Yellow 71 Ambassador was Banana Boat.

[C1BAD66]

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I named the "C1BAD66 Malibu" after the license plate characters which were on it when I bought it.

Maybe that's not too insightful, but what-the-hey...

The car has also had other names which would violate the language rules on this site.

[Tazracing]

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yes..
but they are all called %&**$%^##^ when you open a knuckle on them...

[moparmaniac07]

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I would if the name happened and had any significance or story to it, but I don't like names just for the sake of naming it. I try a name every once in a while, but it never sounds right so it doesn't last long. Still waiting for that significant event to lead to a name.

[Impala_Guy]

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My dark green '95 Impala SS was dubbed "the Green Monster" after Art Arfon's land speed racer. Sadly, it neither had 15k pounds of thrust or broke any speed records. My nephew thought the name was "cool" when he was five. Now he's in college and still calls it by that name.

[BangShift McT]

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I've named a couple (Battlebarge for the '79 LeBaron, for example) but the one that actually really kept it's name was not named by me. Warhammer, my '87 Diplomat, had it's name since the early 1990s.

I'd like to name the Mirada something, but nothing but "the Beater" comes to mind.

[Barry Donovan]

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normally "the car" ???

very exciting.

the only car I have named has been a borderline physic insanity of my 1987 subaru..
shreds t-rated directionals into a wobbling gallop, gets hit by lightning, and has flat top pistons on a 40cc chamber.

sounded like a galloping horse, got hit by lightning more than once..and its brown. I swear to god it is 11 to 1 or close to it.

"thunderhorse" after a song I heard has stuck. the names attempting to be some native sounding legend on little cars is comical of course.

I am not like one to name cars...ever.

[threedoor]

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My first pickup was a fresh grass green '69 Chevy short box, it was "Green Pickup" then I got an Olive '71 GMC long box which was "Big Green" after which I got a Cat Yellow '72 Suburban. It wasn't called anything other then the Suburban untill I got a Brown '69 Sub at which point they were both reffered to by color. My '70 GMC 4X4 Suburban was alternatly called Big Red or the French Whore House, it had a carpet straight out of Circus Circus Casino and ran on propane so it had a funky smell. Now I have a Mexican built '93 Dodge Pickup thats falling apart and my wife calls it El Dodgo.

[kevracer]

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I've always associated the phenomenon of "naming cars" with the female gender

[BBR]

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I called the BBR "Tooth & Nail" because it seemed like it fought me every step of the way.

If I were to name the Mustang, it would be something like this: TECTWOIHEO.

Which is Comanche Indian for "the easiest car to work on I have ever owned".

[Birdman]

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I have never been in the habit of naming vehicles; they've all been called what they were, ie., The Cutlass, The Olds or The (Fire) 'Bird. Had a '92 Jeep Cherokee that my wife and I called Little Red (can you guess what color it was?!). It was goofy fast for what it was (4.0L HO inline-6) and we would occasionally yell out, "Giddy up, Little Red!", when LR (!) felt the need to dust a 'Vette or other unsuspecting sports car at a light. Other than that, no named vehicles.

After my Father died in '07, two years after my Mother died in '05, my three siblings and I bought a commemorative granite block for him and our uncle, both of whom saw action in WW II, to be placed in a permanent WW's I & II memorial in our hometown of Peoria, IL. Since we honored Dad, I decided to honor Mom by using vanity plates on my classic '66 Fury with her name's actual spelling: MORINE. When she started elementary school around 1930, the nuns made her change the spelling to MAUREEN, using the reason that they had never seen it spelled that way before and that it will from now on be spelled this new way. So, I honored Mom by using the original Celtic spelling. Nothing like making a short story long!

[Cyclone03.1]

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My wife calls my 68 Mustang "That Whore","The Other Woman",Blue Slut(or Bitch),or Piece of $!^^ in my parking spot!
Depending on....hum...the day of the week I guess.

[A/Fuel]

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I'm sure I called them a name or two along the way, none of them nice.

[dee_dee_railed]

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The current daily driver/long term project was dubbed "Steve the RV" by a past girlfriend while on a camping trip, it stuck. My number two van/"short" term project came with the name "Big Ben" AKA "The Beast," so named by it's former family.
The names I've given vehicles, bicycles, and even animals have always been more descriptive than anything...Just ask my cat, "Mr. Cat."