nick names of your cars?

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We (my son and I) have named our Duster, April.

Why? Because both of our birthdays are in April. His is the 24th and mine is the 28th and it is a father and son project.

Father's money, and son's sitting around waiting for me to tell him what to do.
 
This is the "Golden Rotisserie Chicken" rotisserie restored.
And the "Gang Green GTS" lots of gang green in the body.
 

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Old mopes... just their names. The dart, the valiant, the Dakota, the ram.
Neons....
white knight 1 through five
Green weenie 1 through three
red rocker 1 and two
black beauty
blue beast 1 and two
purple nurple

Just realized....14 Neons in ten years. Wow.
 
"The Rainmaker"
The very first thing I ever had to buy for it was windshield wiper blades, on the way home from buying it. I should change the dust cloud decals to rain clouds.
 
Wife calls this one "The White Whale"
 

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My old race cars were Quicksilver and Quicksilver II, hence the QKCUDA name. Mostly i just refer to it as the race car.
 

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diymirage said:
what do you do, toss them out when the transmission goes?
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Just sold red rocker II on Saturday. Guy calls Sunday..... trans is going out.

Sonofa....

But actually that is only second bad trans in the bunch. Green eeenie 1 is my daily driver and it had a trans start to go at 200k, so the trans that white knight 1 donated went in it.
That was 100k miles ago.
 
I do call the Ram "Noah" since it rode out the Lyons Colorado flood, now that i think about it.
Grandpa was a pastor so I think he'd approve.
 
1967 white Barracuda notchback..."Barry White" For some reason it's fun to drive that car in first real slooooowwww and deliberate!It's only a buzzin six,but you get my point.
1969 Hemi Orange Dart..."Bart The Dart" His last home was Wisconsin,so I named him after Bart Star,the '60s Packers quarterback.The color looks like Velveeta cheese.
1971 Duster Twister..."Bucky" He had partial fuel line blockage,and did he buck when I first get him.The sharktooth's grill is very menacing,but once again,I'm into low maintenance sixes,so it could also look less menacing,more like a horse's buckteeth.One thing is for sure (I know that it is a stretch),that car is a "Medicine Hat" ironhorse.:D
 
I never nickname or names any car I own but Memike nicknamed my Valiant "Wild Thing" after driving it and an old friend named my Satellite "Brownie" and those are the only 2 that seem to stick :glasses7:
 

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My wife still calls my garage dweller "Christine" even though its an A-body. Its 'bitten' her shins a few times....;-)
 
pishta said:
My wife still calls my garage dweller "Christine" even though its an A-body. Its 'bitten' her shins a few times....;-)
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"Christine is the coolest car IMO...the only way a car in my garage will earn that name is if she is a 58 Fury......my dad has a 59 Fury and people at car shows who don't know the differences between the 2 (everything about a 58 and 59 are different :tard:) they say it looks like "Christine".....:banghead:...dads friend got sick of this and started telling everybody that "No, this is Christines younger brother, Clearance" :glasses7:
 
The Valiant was christened "The Red Brick" by the previous owner since the original owner who built it and sold it to the guy I bought it from was inspired by Richard Ehrenberg's "Green Brick".
 
Once I got married, the nicknames were "mine" and "yours". Now that the yoke has been shed, I may resume the practice.

Starship: 1974 Olds Omega. Special ordered, one of the last ones out of the Van Nuys plant that year. What made it special, and deserving the nickname; competition Camaro front sub-frame, rear stabilizer bar, and the biggest set of Pirelli radials I could stuff under the fenders.
Upgrades that included: Night vision - a pair of 350k Cp driving lights (think aircraft landing lights type power) Comm link - a hidden CB radio with all controls on the handset, Cloak of invisibility - Escort radar detector & home-made X-band jam box, Warp drive - 390 hp '69 spec W33 455 (had to jack up car and remove front wheels to do tune-ups).

Silver Bullet: 1977 Scirocco. Electronic suite from Starship except jam box migrated over. Was an autobahn runner my first year in Germany. Car topped out at 105 mph (rpm redline). Do it for a while and watch the oil temp gauge climb!

The jury is out on what to name the 2014 Dart and the 1972 Demon.
 

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every car I have gets issued a female name.

the main reason I started doing this early in the hobby is because my family is in the towing and was in the salvage business so I am used to having a lot of cars around at any given time.

Naming them makes them off limits to part out (when you name the chicken you cant eat it) It also makes the car well known by the whole family.

I have more than one dart and duster so the names make it personal and its understood by the whole family which exact car is being referred to with a name.

my green 69 dart is Natalie and the wagon is Susie and the list goes on ........lol
 
"The Mistress" started as a temporary name for the Dart and just ended up sticking.
 
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