What's in a name?

[Young Ed]

Snidley wasn't partners with Boris and Natasha. He was on his own as the enemy of Dudley do-right

[buds truck]

I heard a preacher say that after Adam ate the apple God left the Garden of Eden in a "Fury" Since "Fury" is the only car mentioned in the Bible, I figure the least I could do is to name my old plymouth a bibical name so I named her "Jezebel".

SORRY TO BURST YOUR BUBBLE, BUT THE FURY WAS NOT THE ONLY CAR NAMED IN THE BIBLE AS THE APOSTLES WERE ALL IN ONE "ACCORD" BUD :D

[greg g]

Oh I think Tempest might have been mentioned, triumph, and conquest surely.

[Johnny S]

The original owner of ny 48 P15 was a Mrs. Flossie Bossley, therefore the cars name is Flossie.

Ditto for me. The original owner of my Salvador Blue P18 was Margaret Williams and I bought the car from her nephew ......... so the car is "Aunt Margaret". So, then I figured I needed a name for my other club coupe .... as it seemed "lonely" by being nameless ..... and that resulted in "Uncle Johnny" to be gender balanced and to add a little personal touch. Maybe if I'm lucky the two will get together and assemble me a convertible!

[aero3113]

We call ours "Betty"

[LAKOTA169]

My '37 is called Rose. The first car show we took her to, my wife placed a rose she cut from our garden on the cowl. A lot of people liked that, so she became The Rose. Wife had a blue Chev Equinox that we called Babe, the Blue Nox.

Ed aka Dog

[dirty dan]

SORRY TO BURST YOUR BUBBLE, BUT THE FURY WAS NOT THE ONLY CAR NAMED IN THE BIBLE AS THE APOSTLES WERE ALL IN ONE "ACCORD" BUD :D

Maybe, but the only one God drove was a Plymouth (Fury)!

[dirty dan]

I can't post the names I normally call my P-15.

[Normspeed]

Grandadeo and I came up with "the Momad" for mine when I first got it. If I were gonna paint a name on the body somewhere it would have to be "Paint it Black".

The car's a 53 but I'm product of the sixties:rolleyes:

[krodaddy]

My 52 Cranbrook is called the "New Car"

The 51 Cambridge parts car is the "Old Car"

And my 93 Dodge Caravan daily driver is "Old Smokey", guess why!

[captden29]

my 54 windsor sedan came with a key tag from a used car dealer and it said on it chrysler, ascot grey, so we call the car ascot. my yellow 54 windsor convertible is spongebob for the color, we just call it sponge. i have the spongebob characters, stuffed animals, in the back seat. kids at the shows love it. dennis

[Don Jordan]

My very first car (which like most of you I wish I still had) 1950 Buick ($25).

Was trying to start it and it belched a big flame out of the carburetor. I was somewhat younger then and prone to such things so my first car was called Belchfire. After that they were just cars.

Right now my cars' names are the two door and the four door.

btw: I'm impressed with the bible scholars - I believe I may have to pass that information along. (a Furry - lol)

[Normspeed]

Dennis, sounds like you let the kids get up close to your car. I think it's great to let kids get a close up view of these old rigs. I stay within reason of course, but I've been known to let a kit sit in the driver's seat, or even climb into the teardrop at a show. Now if the kid is holding an ice cream cone.....

my 54 windsor sedan came with a key tag from a used car dealer and it said on it chrysler, ascot grey, so we call the car ascot. my yellow 54 windsor convertible is spongebob for the color, we just call it sponge. i have the spongebob characters, stuffed animals, in the back seat. kids at the shows love it. dennis

[randroid]

Gents,

When I first got my '48 P-15 more-door back in '88, that SOB fought me so hard I just knew it was a Marlon Brando-wannabe from "On The Waterfront" and for years I called it "Pigiron" because that's the lowest form of ferrous metal and the only thing I could call it in general public. Then, a few years ago, I scored a complete new set of Robarts rubber for $100 and began thinking in ernest about refinishing it all over. I started scraping paint and the car took on a new personality which reflected a very feminine side, something I hadn't seen before, so I started watching for it.

I pulled the old rubber from around the rear window and I swear the car relaxed a little. There were so many layers of sealants and tars attempting to create some form of seal between metal and glass with no regard for the rubber that the point was seemingly missed by POs.

It has come to me that this old girl was mean to me when she met me because she's been slapped with unimaginative fresh paint whenever she started to sag but she was never offered a hand up and became justifiably defensive when yet another clown came courting. That's why I thought her to be a male. She's not a male; she's an old whore who's been used and abused by people in the past at their whim and I want to restore some of the innocence of her youth. She's given her all to please others and never asked for anything in return, so what I strive to do is thank her for her service by bringing her back to a shade of her former glory. She may be an old whore but she's my old whore and deserving the dignity I hope to return to her.

Please don't take offense when I refer to my friend as "The Old Whore"; it makes her smile when I scratch her fenders and a few other parts I won't mention.

-Randy

[Captain Neon]

My 1946 Plymouth was my first car. The song "Love Shack" by the B-52s was popular when I was learning to drive. Due to the car's faded grey paint and its general size and appearance, she was dubbed "The Whale."

"Hop in Ben's Plymouth, it's as big as a whale..."

[Johnny230]

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Edited December 31, 2021 by Johnny230