The Name of Your Car...and other inanimate objects..
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Whoami

Thursday, October 17, 2002 - 01:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
OK, I just had to start this...

My car's name is Jasper. He (yes, my car is a he, don't ask me why, I just can't think of it as a she).

When I got him 4 years ago, I naturally had to come up with a name. He is a white Chevy Celebrity Station Wagon, circa 1986.

After having my car a few days, I was at work, and we had a new kid named Jeremy come in. A few of us were standing around, and someone asked what the new kid's name was. For some reason, even though I knew it was wrong, I said Jasper. Someone looked at me and said, "JASPER! What kind of a name is Jasper?" My reply, "oh, I don't know. I think it's a fine name. Maybe I'll name my car Jasper!"

The rest is history.

Next time, perhaps I'll tell you the names of our appliances....

Max

Thursday, October 17, 2002 - 01:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I've had several cars with names. My first car was a '65 Chevy 3-speed column shift. It was a junker that my dad got for $200. Had lots of, shall we say, personality quirks. :) Her name was Myrtle.

My first PT Cruiser was named Neville. He was a consummate gentleman! Unfortunately, he got traded in for the new electric blue turbo version. SHE is a beauty, but hadn't got a name yet. Waiting to get my paint customized and then I'll see what fits. :)

Jagger

Thursday, October 17, 2002 - 01:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well my first car was a 68 Chevy Impala, I named it the Green Vomit. It was a god forsaken ugly green that was faded and peeling, it looked horrible, ran the same way too, but at least it got me from point A to point B most of the time. It was one of those where you stop to put in oil and check the gas.

Twiggyish

Thursday, October 17, 2002 - 01:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Before I was married I had a car named Geek Geek. The horn made that sound..LOL (It was a Toyota)
For short, we'd call it Geeky. It was my first new car and I LOVED it.

Kstme

Thursday, October 17, 2002 - 02:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My "first" car (the one the parents didn't buy) was a 1949 VW. It was a bit of a mess and over 15 years old when I got it. It ran like a charm with it's own set of quirky habits, but I loved it. I named it Chatsworth Wadsworth, the First. All 4 of my subsequent VW's were named the same except to increase the number. (I was a BIG Dobie Gillis fan)

Goddessatlaw

Thursday, October 17, 2002 - 02:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
All of my cars go by the same name: "The Ashtray."

Fanny

Thursday, October 17, 2002 - 02:26 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The first car I actually purchased was a gawd-awful butt-ugly 1964 Dodge Seneca that I was embarassed to be seen in, but at the age of 17 with no job it was what I could afford.

I called that gross ugly thing Carbuncle. It was a good, fitting name.

(Carbuncle: a painful local purulent inflammation of the skin and deeper tissues wtih multiple openings for the discharge of pus and usually necrosis and sloughing of dead tissue.)

Babyruth

Thursday, October 17, 2002 - 02:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I had a 68 Beetle named Elvis-- because it liked to shake, rattle and roll.

It had no radio but I drew one on a piece of cardboard and taped it to the dash! It was the "Cheaptone Junior". I kept a kazoo in the glovebox for my music needs.

It had no working heater, but I kept a scraper in the glove box for clearing the inside of the tiny windshield in the New England winter. No worries.

The car was very rusty on the bottom, but for 200 bucks for my first car, I wasn't complaining. Not til I had to get it towed, that is (pulled over and ticketed for not renewing my license plate--who knew?), and the passenger seat stayed on the ground as the rest of the front end was lifted. HA! I knew those holes in the floorboards might be trouble someday.

Oh, yeah, it also had a thick piece of white styrofoam for a passenger side wing-window. That's because I had to break into my own car after locking myself out one night. Oops!

Since then, I've driven much "nicer" VW's, Toyotas and Hondas, but I sure do miss my Elvis Bug!

Max

Thursday, October 17, 2002 - 03:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Jagger, my second car was a '68 Chevy Impala! I called it "the limo" because it was so darned big. I bought it from my aunt and uncle when they got a new car.

I remember the first day I drove it to high school. I got a parking spot right in front of the cafeteria where all my friends hung out before classes started. They were all admiring it and I told them how cool it was. I said it was SO cool because there was a bar in the back seat and everything, thus I called it "the limo." Believe it or not, a couple of them actually went out to get a look at that bar! Some people will believe anything! :)

Davey

Thursday, October 17, 2002 - 08:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I have a '92 Camaro named Cameron - though all my friends call it the "Butchmobile".

Wargod

Thursday, October 17, 2002 - 10:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
1977 Lincoln Continental. One window doesn't roll down, one don't roll up. No heater in the winter, no a/c in the summer. The radio (three of them in 6 months) don't work, the interior lights come on when they want to. It squeeks, squeels, thumps and sounds awful when started up in the mornings. The thing gets 117 miles to a full tank of gas. Takes half an hour in the mornings to warm up, LOL. We call it the Tank...and I actually love it. It gets me where I got to go, and it's fast. What more do I need? LOL.

Sia

Thursday, October 17, 2002 - 11:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I have a huge house plant named "Feed Me" (think of the movie "Little Shop of Horrors,") which was named by my brother. It's a long story....

Northstar

Thursday, October 17, 2002 - 11:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The first car I named was an '84 Mazda GLC, four on the floor, maroon with goldenrod interior and had a dash some dog had chewed up. Her beloved name was Wilma. My present car is Lizzy, an Outback.

Whoami

Thursday, October 17, 2002 - 11:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL on these responses! Though often people will look at me and declare me wierd for naming my car, I know secretly they name thiers as well!

The appliances. Well, we got a washer/dryer many years ago, so we had to welcome them into the household with names. Since they were Kenmores, we decided on Kenny and Kendra. Then the dilemma, which one is Kenny, and which one is Kendra? We decided the washer had to be Kendra, cause she could wash the clothes, but really didn't HAVE to have the dryer to complete the job (it just made things easier). Kenny (the dryer), on the other hand, made things easier by drying the clothes, but really wasn't much use without a washer to wash the clothes first. In other words, Kendra could work alone if need be, but Kenny needs Kendra around to be of any use at all! .

Now, using this same logic, does anyone care to guess which name was given to our first TV/VCR set up? They were both Fischers, and we named them Freddie and Frieda.

Our Kitchenaid dishwasher is Katie, and our Jenn-Aire oven is Jenny.

Ummm, you aren't all out there laughing hysterically at our family now are you?

Car54

Friday, October 18, 2002 - 02:29 am EditMoveDeleteIP
You guys name your cars? Wow.

Pcakes2

Friday, October 18, 2002 - 06:19 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I have a Red Chevy Blazer named Clifford (as in Clifford the Little Red Puppy), and a white VW Cabriolet convertible named Spot.

Romans8_1

Friday, October 18, 2002 - 06:52 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I had a 76 B210 Datson that was green and looked like a crumpled can. I had the hood tied down. I call it the "Beast"

I later had a station waggon I called the "Dragon Wagon"

Landi

Friday, October 18, 2002 - 10:08 am EditMoveDeleteIP
i started naming my cars with the advent of my 1969 Mustang Boss 302. she was red and VERY VERY fast. her name was "roxanne". from the police song. i figured a fast lady needed a "fast" name. <giggle>, i've had a baby blue vw rabbit named "babs bunny", we had a ford F150 that's old and rusty named "old blue", and we had a red 87 saab named "boo hoo" (sob/boohoo get it??) shortened to just "boo", my husband's current truck is maria. from the Brooks and Dunn song.. "my maria". my current car is a nissan 200sx named "denise" from... saying "de nissan" fast...

and that's just the beginning of the things we name in my family!!!!

Hermione69

Friday, October 18, 2002 - 11:28 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I call my Toyota RAV 4 "Simon," after Simon le Bon of Duran Duran who I was totally in love with in middle school. I named my two cabbage patch dolls after him, as well. That I am still naming stuff after him twenty years later is either incredibly sweet or incredibly sad!

Maesin

Friday, October 18, 2002 - 12:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I have never actually named my car. Most of the time I just call it "Dirty". lol.
I used to think *all* cars were "shes" until this one though. This is a "he" car. He is a Red Ford Explorer Sport and does answer to baby, sweetie, good car, etc.
Right now I may have to call him Rattles. For my going away present at work some friends put baby rattles in the back hubcaps. They can’t be heard when the car is going fast, but when I slow down I get the funniest looks from people. It’s almost worth keeping them in there.
I love the names for the cars and appliances. Creativity at its best!

Maes

Silksmoke

Friday, October 18, 2002 - 02:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I have a Seville named Tica, (pronounced teeka)and she's all female. We just bought a new truck to tow our fifth wheel, his name is Tug for obvious reasons.

I've always named my cars, I've had a New Yorker named Sabrina (breena for short), and one of my all time favorites was a limited edition Buick named Gypsy. I did have a Plymouth for a couple of months, her name was *itch.

Urgrace

Friday, October 18, 2002 - 06:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Our full size GMC van is named Jimmy. My ten year old Cutlass is called Millie because she used to belong to my MIL. My first car I bought was a '62 Ford Galaxie Fairlane 500 and we named her Honey, because we had to drip honey talking her into starting after my sister badmouthed her.

Squaredsc

Friday, October 18, 2002 - 06:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
i call my car kizzy, in fact i call all of my cars kizzy. way back when i was younger, my step-mother called her black pontiac sunbird, don't know the year but it was early 80's or late 70's, miss kizzy. that car lasted almost 20 yrs, it had no power steering or power brakes. and that name kind of stuck.

Riviere

Saturday, October 19, 2002 - 02:07 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Nice to see I'm not the only kindly kook here! My favorite old car was a fire breathing 1979 Trans Am named RED.. Now I own a sleek 1999 Saturn SC1 and his name is Taz.. Remember the Tasmanian Devil in cartoons? I've got Taz floor mats, Taz keychain, Taz sunshade, and a little stuffed Taz mascot who rides in the backseat. :)

Rabernet

Saturday, October 19, 2002 - 08:18 am EditMoveDeleteIP
My car is Abbey the Altima (also since my last name is Abernethy, it sort of fit in that theme, I guess). My mom's first Maxima was Max, and her current Maxima is Maxine. Her friend has Polly the Pontiac. Too cute!!!! Oh my boyfriend's white Chevy Blazer is the Ghost!

Queenfish

Sunday, October 27, 2002 - 12:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My first car was a 64 1/2 candy apple red mustang convertable. My dad got it for me from my aunt who had named him Andy, after Andy Williams,so His name is still Andy after all these years. He is in the shed all covered up as we have had him restored to his original state. A fine looking fellow he is.

The only other things we have that have names are Kingfish's fishing polls. Bessie is his favorite and I don't keep up with the names of the 60 or 70 others.

Sisalou

Sunday, October 27, 2002 - 12:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think Jasper is a fine name. My brother named his dog Jasper. :)

Jmm

Sunday, October 27, 2002 - 03:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The only car I have ever named was a 1980 something Olds Cutlass. I named it Nelly after my grandmother, Mama Nell. It tended to be slow in cold weather, cantankerous as all get out, it tended to fix small problems by itself like windshield wipers that didn't always work right, but it always got us there. Just reminded me a lot of the other Nell in my life.

Geogirl

Monday, October 28, 2002 - 10:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My tuff little Geo is named BRUTUS! I named him that the day that I got him. He is tough and has seen me through some really crappy driving!!LOL

Babsbunny3

Tuesday, October 29, 2002 - 05:19 am EditMoveDeleteIP
My mini station wagon: Bernice.
My tiny Nissan Sentra: Dot
My old jalopy Jeep Wagoneer: Bertha

*old car sold last year* Dodge Aspen: Nelly