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I have always name my cars, when i was younger it was based on looks so my 1st car was named "Titanic" 87 town car that car was a boat, but i loved it her after that one i had a 93 town car "Moises" had no grill and on the HWY people would just get out of the way lol...after that i've had
Honey (1990 nissan maxima)sold
spyce (1997 nissan maxima )sold
sassy (2006 nissan altima SE-R)sold
Piggie (2006 Infiniti QX 56 THA BUS!!)have
Honey the 2nd ( 2007 NISSAN ALTIMA 3.5 SE IT REMINDS US OF 1ST HONEY)have
and my camaro witch i just got about a month ago is a 1991 RS 305 and needs alot of work her name is "URZULA" I the name fits her like a glove.
__________________ 1986 Sport Coupe, underside & engine bay sandblasted/painted, 353 Gen 1 SBC, Vortec heads, XR276HR Comp cam, 1.6 Comp Pro Mag rockers, Full MSD Ignition, 700R4 w/ usual upgrades, 10" TCI convertor,3" driveshaft w/ 1350 u-joints, Dana 44 w/3.73 posi. All new suspension, LS1 front brakes, 1LE rear brakes, Del-A-Lum bushings, UMI adjustable torque arm, Intrax 2" drop springs. Best time on old chassis(86IROC,3700lbs)12.77@105/8.09@84(1/8th)w/1.70 60'. New chassis...12.74 @ 108. (Same weight)
86 TA 502. Work in progress. 86 IROC-Z. Winter beater.
hahah, names...
my first car: 1984 Chevy Caprice Classic... He instantly inherited the name "Rusty" after his cat rusted and fell off on the way home from buying him...
my jeep: 1995 Jeep Wrangler, Sahara edition... after my first time off road in him on a new, unfamiliar trail he earned the nick name "Little Boy Blue"... he was green and tan by the way..
my truck: 1990 Dodge Dakota: Dad bought this truck when i was born...yeah i know im young... but after about 24 hours after i bought it from him it got the name "old red" for obvious reasons.
my third gen: 1987 Chevy Camaro: Bought him 3 days ago... after getting him home i noticed a deathly radiator leak... and he got the name "Squirt"...
Haven't got a name for mine, but I agree with what some have been saying on the male/female issue. There are a lot of cars that strike me as feminine, the Pontiac Solstice among them (not sure why, nice car, just comes off that way), but the Camaro has always seemed more masculine to me.
Reasons:
Deep, throaty "Voice" (V8)
Strong, muscular lines
Highly competitive -- if not a little over-ambitious at times
Agressive styling and attitude
I agree, my car is currently uni-sex, it goes from her to him intermittantly. I think the reason we tend to give our cars girl names is that we devote so much time to them that it becomes almost a relationship. Or, it could be that we love them way more than we (and im sorry, when im saying we, i mean we guys, im not being sexist in the least bit, and if youre a woman with a 3rd gen, you get that much more respect from me for not driving some stupid VW cockroach.) would ever love a man.
You bring up an interesting point with the female drivers, though... do women perceive their cars as male? Any women on the boards who could give a response? Now I'm interested to know...
I've always thought of my baby as male, from the day I got him. He doesn't specifically have a name, but I refer to him as my "black stallion" or the beast, though I have called him POS for a while until recent problems were fixed.
I agree, my car is currently uni-sex, it goes from her to him intermittantly. I think the reason we tend to give our cars girl names is that we devote so much time to them that it becomes almost a relationship. Or, it could be that we love them way more than we (and im sorry, when im saying we, i mean we guys, im not being sexist in the least bit, and if youre a woman with a 3rd gen, you get that much more respect from me for not driving some stupid VW cockroach.) would ever love a man.
Lmao I'm sorry....so right now your car is a hermaphrodite??? I'm sorry that just poped into my head. Well I said maunals to me were males and automatics females...so I guess if you had a semi-auto it would be a hermaphrodite.
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A buddy of mine jokingly called his T/A the SHAUN CLAUDE TRANS AM.For those of you who get it and know who it refers to.Always made me laugh.Would help to know the guy and his sense of humor.
My stepson called mine RED DEMAON for some reason.I never named it,but money pit would fit it.Ex wife called it the mistress,or that d@mn car!lol.
I just call mine the Ol'Bird. cause sometimes she can me embarrasing like when your in the grocery store parking lot and its night time you go to turn on your headlights and an elderly lady comes up to ya and says whys that Ol'bird winking at me (The headlight gear was stripped).but i fixed it and thats how it got its name. From a old lady
I really like some of your names. I usually have named my cars, just ones that a name seems to fit with them, and they seem to always be the ones I loved the most, and many of them are ones Ive always regretted getting rid of. My old 74 ranchero was " The Beast", a 93 bonneville sse I had was "Bonnie", my 91 bird was "Lucy", my 01 mustang was "Nikki". I dont really know how I came up with the names (well Bonnie is easy) but basically the names just come to me and fit, so they get the name. As far as cars names for girls and guys, my friend always says "If its a stick, its a guy, if its an auto its a girl. Mine are always autos, so always girls, but I always buy cars I think are sexy, so obviously they would have to have a girls name. My girlfriend named her 02 VW bug "Bee" wich is extremely fitting cuz its yellow with black trim and wheels and looks like a bumblebee, odd though when she told me I was telling her that bumblebee from transformers used to be a yellow bug, and she said, wow I named my bug bee too (she never saw the old cartoon series). Ive had quite a few other cars I never named too though. And I havent came up with a name for my 89 bird I got now, she's still in the project stage, been abused alot over her life, and I am going to bring her back to what she should be and then some, I'll figure out a good name then, for now I just call her "That poor little thing", that nickname seems fitting for now, since the interior is shot, needs 2 fenders, and a 1/4 panel and new bumpers and taillight, but hell she runs really good for 160,000 abused miles on the completely stock original engine.
Well i havent offically named it yet, but i really like Haley, Lakin, and Elizabeth.
Since, it turns out now i'm talking to a girl named lakin, i probally wont name it that.
But, its going to eventually be blacked out, except for the rims, and red trim, Might call it Black Widow.
Or call it Black Widow on the outside, and really call it haley. haha
Well i didn't name my car but my friends started calling it "The Platypus" because they say the front end looks like a platypus's snout. And hes male by the way, I was thinking of giving him a regular name, but the platypus stuck.
Since im in mexico he's "El Ornitorrinco" or the Orni for short.
I haven't named mine yet, and I've had HER 5 years now. Gotta get on that.
Everyone in my family always had names for their cars - especially my mom. 40 years ago (yes, sadly I said 40), she was naming cars. When I was about 7, we had a 1970 Malibu, she was named Miss Nelly. When I was 14, we had a Oldsmobile land yacht of some kind, it was named George.
My grandfather always had names for his cars, but I never knew what they were - he kept them to himself. They were however always girls, cause "she won't fire" or "she dumped her oil again". He always did his own repairs, and had a detached garage - the women (ie grandma, or my aunts, etc.) were never allowed in the garage - it was never a spoken rule, but just understood that no woman was ever allowed in Pap's garage. Even when the bay doors were open, the entry door was closed. It was kinda like when working on the cars, he was having an affair. I think he just wanted the alone time of man and machine. And he always talked to his 'girls' when he thought no one was listening. Guess it rubbed off - anytime I'm wrenching and the wife comes out to the driveway, I get uneasy like she's interrupting something! Weird.
Us kids (the boys) were always welcome in the garage, and were even kinda expected to be there if Pap was in there. He was always having us help fix whatever he was working on, whether car or motorcycle or snowmobile or whatever. As a 5 year old, you kinda seek the loving gentle attention of Grandma, especially when we're talking about western PA mountains at Xmas and no heat in the garage - but Pap made sure you were in the garage with him. He'd never ask, but he'd make enough racket that you just had to see what was going on. Even if it was a 90* June day and he was working on the boat, he'd fire up the snowmobile and rev it knowing we'd come out to see what the hell he was up to ("had to turn her over and keep her lubed").
Now looking back, I'm sure that's why all us grandkids have the mental ability to just grab a wrench and take something apart to fix it (or at least attempt to) without fear. He would even take things like dead tv's and toasters and put them in the toy box in the basement so us kids could tinker!
And having thought about this a few years ago, I tried everything I could think of to get my kids to help me with my projects, so they could learn as well - but alas, the XBox generation can't be bothered with tooling - its not fast, exciting, adrenaline rushing stimulation. Maybe it's me - maybe I'm not as good at "allowing" a kid to help me as Pap was. But regardless, it's hard to compete with an XBox. Makes me happy to see the young guns on here trying to do their own work and trying to learn - just wish we could keep you fools from drinking and driving your rides into trees! DRINK WHILE WRENCHING, BUT DRIVE SOBER!
Sorry for the trip down memory lane - I got off on a tangent there.
ive been wrenching and playstationing my whole life.. I build computers, and work on cars.
I grew up with it though. starting with building stuff with my grandpa too.
Nothing official yet- but I was thinking Night Crawler, like from the Judas Priest song. I want get a sticker or vinyl or something to put 666 on the back in red, and Night Crawler on the side somewhere- probably rear quarters.
But I usually refer to her as baby when she treats me well. Or bitch when she doesnt. Or P.O.S. You all know how that goes...
But I think these cars should have girls names, or indifferent names like someone already said (night crawler, I saw a tie fighter). I have a trans am thats an automatic if that matters... I don't know about Camaros though.
Yes, I have named all of my cars, even ones I don't have:
87 Bird: Raven
the 93 Grand Prix I used to have was the Road Runner (for obvious reasons... was my winter beater until I sold her)
the 81 Z I'll have someday before I die will be the Hawk...
and the 95 3.4 Bird will be the Phoenix.
My dad's 00 Grand Prix was the "New Hot-ness" after replacing our 93 Cavalier, the "Old-and-Busted" or "Old-and-Rusted", after the line in Men In Black II. My mom's 93 Acclaim was "The Death Trap" after a couple of bad winters, and the 07 GP is "That Damn Car" because my dad HATES it (he only got it to replace the 00 after a rear-end collision that totalled the car 2 winters ago).
__________________ Dan V.
Project Raven is on hold... She's a body shell with a rather large collection of parts. 1987 Pontiac Firebird, T-top, 1991 VIN T engine, getting MegaSquirted. 85 T-5 5-Speed manual trans. Hybrid 3100 V6 swap nearly complete, too much body work to do first . Restomod in progress. So many parts to replace, so little money .
My dad refused to let me in the garage when he was working because he wanted me to go to college. im trying to learn, but im one of those that learns everything really fast and when i cant i get super frustraded and just wanna do something else so its really hard to learn all this for me... but my dad told me last year "there is a reason you were never allowed in the garge with me. i wanted you to make the choice i didnt make and have a good future ahead of you." i guess you cant hate on that =/
My dad refused to let me in the garage when he was working because he wanted me to go to college. im trying to learn, but im one of those that learns everything really fast and when i cant i get super frustraded and just wanna do something else so its really hard to learn all this for me... but my dad told me last year "there is a reason you were never allowed in the garge with me. i wanted you to make the choice i didnt make and have a good future ahead of you." i guess you cant hate on that =/
Someone help me think of a name for mine. I always name my cars...
I tend to want to call "it" bonnie for some reason but my gf says the car is a male?
hahaha!
Should I call it "bonnie" as it comes quick to my mind first..
just seems like an old name..
i named mine transy, it actually came from a friend of mine who saw it, really it prolly should be called barney from he!!. cuz the hatchglass and windshield are busted now...dam vandals... ugh...
After I first got my Trans Am, I drove it up to my grandma's house one day, and she called it "Thundersquall" because it was so loud, and even though I don't really like the name, it's kinda all I have unless I feel like renaming it.
Mine is more of a theme than a name lol........yes I am an old SOB and this was done in the summer of 86, Molley Hatchet FTW....it will probably come off this year since the airbrush paint is showing its age
. Restomod in progress. So many parts to replace, so little money 
