do you name your cars

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do you name your cars

May 02, 2008, 11:46:40 AM

if so what are there names?

betty the 95

sarh the 88

do you name your cars

Reply #1 – May 02, 2008, 12:05:27 PM

No...

do you name your cars

Reply #2 – May 02, 2008, 12:12:00 PM

yeah, the bird, the TC, or the Ford. Sometimes even the Ford Thunderbird Turbo Coupe.

do you name your cars

Reply #3 – May 02, 2008, 12:39:23 PM

we have somthing like 15 cars at the thunderdome so its just easy

do you name your cars

Reply #4 – May 02, 2008, 01:01:57 PM

Since I've got twins, they need some kind of ID. I've been thinking about "Rudolph" for the one getting rebuilt, or "red" and "blue" based on the volvo valve cover color. Right now they're "the old one" and "the new one".

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Reply #5 – May 02, 2008, 01:45:42 PM

Meredith - the Cougar
Gertrude - the Fairlane
The Tib - the Tib

do you name your cars

Reply #6 – May 02, 2008, 02:43:03 PM

Quote from: Chuck W;216766

No...

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Reply #7 – May 02, 2008, 03:19:11 PM

Cougar A - 87 LS 3.8V6
Cougar B - 87 LS 3.8V6
Cougar X - 88 XR7 5.0V8
Salt - 88 Base TBird 3.8LV6
Pepper - 88 Thunderbird 5.0LV8

Not that I enjoy picking on letters of the alphabet... the first two cougars I've owned are A and B. However, it wasn't until after B arrived, and my old man started referring to her as The Brown Cougar, or Cougar Brown.... so B stuck and A followed suite.

I'll never own a Cougar C (unless I find a 1967 Cougar

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So it made sense for X.

And only SaltNPepper knows the full story about Salt and Pepper :hick:

do you name your cars

Reply #8 – May 02, 2008, 03:43:03 PM

only the cougar has a name..... my wife calls it Jezabell..... she says the cat lures me away from her :)

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Reply #9 – May 02, 2008, 03:44:14 PM

I did at one time :hick:

I got a LOT of flack for it, but I had FOUR Red 1988 Turbo Coupes at the same time (plus a Red 87 just to mess with things) so it was really hard to make it clear which one I was working on.

They all got named for songs playing on the radio on the day we decided to name them.

Apparently that wasn't "cool" with the internet tough guys but screw them.

Now it's "the cop car" or "the P71" or "the 'Vic" or "the cruiser" or "Car #202" for the Crown Vic Police Interceptor.
The RX-7 is either "the RX-7" or "blinky" depending on who's asking.
The Grand Prix is "the GTONO" as in "GTO, no" because John has a GTO and the GP is a "GT" (as opposed to the blown "GTP"). Hard to explain, but it just kinda stuck.

do you name your cars

Reply #10 – May 02, 2008, 03:49:24 PM

I think Ford did a good enough job naming the cars for us.

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Reply #11 – May 02, 2008, 04:00:19 PM

88 Fast T-bird
95 Slow T-bird

Easy enough so people know which one I'm talking about.

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Reply #12 – May 02, 2008, 05:06:34 PM

I never understood the why people feel the need to name their cars, or even their boats.
I can understand feeling emotionally attached to something like a car; but to name it just seems wierd to me.

Brent

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Reply #13 – May 02, 2008, 06:16:14 PM

I named my first car (Bertha) and even occasionally referred to my second car by name (Freakin'), but none after that. I was 16/17, so I plead not guilty by reason of youthful stupidity. Now I just refer to my cars by what they are (The "T-Bird", the "Saturn", and the "Truck").

Oh, wait, I also called my old '82 Toyota 4X4 the "Bawg Hawg", but that's because it had a windshield decal saying so before I bought it.

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Reply #14 – May 02, 2008, 07:30:28 PM

the coug'
the 'bird

nice and easy, i'll let you figure out which is which