Do you name your car? (poll)

Post by **system11** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 5:22 pm

Stemming from a conversation on IRC:

Do you name your cars?

EDIT: And no environmental lecturing please, that is not the issue here.

sffan · Post by **sffan** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 5:35 pm

sffan · Post by **sffan** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 5:35 pm

UnscathedFlyingObject · Fri Sep 16, 2005 5:40 pm

Mine exists only in my mind. It will use pollution as fuel, and it will keep running forever.

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 7:26 pm

I named mine "C'mon you lousy sonuvagun, START! I'm already late, you had to pick TODAY, you bastard!"

Accutron · Post by **Accutron** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 7:44 pm

My first car was a bright red 1980 Ford Pinto, which had the unhealthy habit of belching flames out the carb. My friends dubbed it 'The Chariot of Fire'.

Jon · Post by **Jon** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 7:56 pm

Not currently but I refered to my first car (a little blue subaru) as "The Great Space Coaster."

superhitachi4 · Post by **superhitachi4** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 8:17 pm

haha well, I don't think this is technically a nickname for the car, but it's close. My driver's seat is red, while all the other seats are blue, so I call it "the captain's chair".

landshark · Post by **landshark** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 5:10 am

After the 3rd time the tranny was out, it gained the nickname "Lil Tubby" because the dang thing is heavy.

I also know my car is a dude because stamped into the steel on the bottom of the car in two different places is "MAN".

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 5:59 am

No... but I name my controllers and memory cards... girl names. Typically from H-games. And I have a small sticker with the girl's face on them. You know, just so I can tell apart otherwise identical items.

it290 · Post by **it290** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 6:20 am

A friend of mine named her car 'Roxanne', because the check engine light was always coming on.

Specineff · Post by **Specineff** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 6:51 am

^^ I don't get it.

TWITCHDOCTOR · Post by **TWITCHDOCTOR** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 9:46 am

"Roxanne" is a song from the band Police.

"You don't have to walk the streets for money...you dodn't have to put on the red light. Roxanne..."

IlMrm · Post by **IlMrm** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 5:55 am

My car's name is Hitomi.

Minzoku · Post by **Minzoku** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 2:43 pm

My car is Biscuit, but that's either same sex or N.O.T.A.--I haven't figured that out. [The real "Biscuit" is a gryphon.]

Of course, if Kiken would get his vanity plate already, we'd have Ikaruga cars

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 12:01 am

BulletMagnet wrote:I named mine "C'mon you lousy sonuvagun, START! I'm already late, you had to pick TODAY, you bastard!"

I have a feeling that a lot of people have named their cars something like that! Or like the Adam Sandler song.

FatCobra · Post by **FatCobra** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 9:47 pm

I once had a 88 Volvo that I called "The Junkmoblie" since there was always something wrong with it.

I call my 96 Explorer "The Big Green Thing."

Zweihander · Post by **Zweihander** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 10:43 pm

I named mine "Gally" (she's a silver 2001 Chevy Malubu, just fyi), after the japanese name of Alita (from "Battle Angel Alita", or GUNNM for people with more than half a brain)

For Battle Angel/ Gunnm fans: yes, I even spent about an hour adding her "war paint" with red car paint, right under the headlights.

I'll take a picture sometime after I give her a touch-up job; the red's starting to flake off. :/

Accutron · Post by **Accutron** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 10:46 pm

Zweihander wrote:silver 2001 Chevy Malubu

Heh we have a 2004, red.

Icecap Veiwin · Post by **Icecap Veiwin** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 2:17 am

I named my car "Shitbag." Hell, I'm not even old enough to drive.