Names

[Martin]

As a Newbie, I've been intrigued by the names people give their cars, so I had to name mine.

Well, he's been christened "Jim"  after the guy who started it all in 1856 - James Holden.

I know he's a male because he's got this long "whizzle".  Look between his back "legs"

Any other stories behind names?

[nicko]

i named mine HUI as thats the rego letters and i thought it made sense at the time.
reguards Nicko

[fcfromscratch]

An EK I bought recently was named Bev because it was purchased from a WA country town named Beverley, just south of York.  Name seemed to fit at the time, the car is mauve, it was for my daughter to drive etc etc...

Brad

[zulu]

We have an FE Panelvan (awaiting restoration) with glass, it's payload area has had brown lino laid under the runners & the side panels have been made out of a sort of woodgrain formica.
The missus christened it the "Office Job" because of the wood lining.
Zulu

[robbzfc58]

i have an fc wgn & an fb ute ;D ;D
we call one "the fc" & the other "the fb" ???
not very imaginative......eh ::)

[fe2ek]

When we bought our white EK,Previous owners called it Elle,even with elle sticker on rear windsreen,so we called it Elle.Kids only know it as Elle not the EK.
Then we bought a pink Ek.Kids call it pink Elle so now we call it pink Elle.
Then we bought a Grey FC.    Yep ..Grey Elle.
But the blue FE Ute is         Blue ute.

Cheers Geoff

[Emu]

My wife and I started our tradition of naming our cars with one of our first vehicles. It was cool in the 80's to have old cars as surf mobiles. We had a  1962 Hillman Minx which for some reason was called "Horace", "Horace Hillman. We upgraded to a beautiful two-tone 1956 Morris Major called "Doris". yep "Doris Morris"

When we got the FC wagon we had some how put on 20 years and six kids, so we had a family poll and came up with "Hilda Holden". Now we have an FC sedan also, he's known as "Harvey"

We have had some late model cars along the way, but we have never felt compelled to name them. I think it is a classic car thing.

That's my story.

Emu

[-KIWI-]

and emu got his name because his head looks like this

[-KIWI-]

my ek was called the mistress cause i spent more time with her than my wife
the fc is just called oldN

[Phantom]

I had a bright red HJ one tonner called "Bertha"
                                   Rusty

[Emu]

yeah... Thanks Kiwi, good stuff......

Here's Horace and Emu. Emu sporting a fine 80's flat top!  8)

Looking good I think!  ::)



Note fine looking hub caps and nice after market board racks

[Sarge]

Well I wanted to call mine Bertie after my father. But my kids have dubed it Shreck, because it Big, Green & Lots of fun. Go figure now I am driving an Ogre  ;)

Regards
Sarge

[customFC]

My FC is called 'Maybelline' in honour of Chuck.
She even had her name on the boot for a while....now her name is on the glovebox lid.


My dad's FC wagon he had as we were growing up was always refered to as 'Betsy' by him.

Regards
Alex

[surferboy]

gday martin
my boys always refused to ride in my wagon (unless they needed a lift to the pub) and always refered to it as "THE OLD LADIES CAR"  ( but theyre into commodes & fords , so what would they know about style & class anyway.)
i refer to it as "THE GLIDE"........(glide   surfings equivalent to criusing)
              surferboy  8) 8) 8)

[Cat]

Mine's called TC....The Car.  Numberplate TC 1958.
Some stupid towie though it was a Holden TC  ::) D'oh!!

There are also times it has been called Travelling Circus, Turquoise Car, Top Car, Totally Cool, Totally Crap (yeah, bad day that one!), oh yeah, and Top Chick, but that's about the driver!  ;D

Cat

[Martin]

 ;D It was Emu's Hilda that prompted this thread.

Nice paint job on Hui, Nicko.  The light blue looks the same as mine (Skyline blue) but your top looks darker than my dark blue (Fountain blue).

Classic line, Kiwi   :D :D  I can understand why you'd want to spend more time with the EK "Mistress" that a ewe!  The conversation would be better for starters.

 8) Jo Cool with the Hilman, Emu.  Glad to see your taste in cars has improved.

Hey, Cat, you sure the TC is not really Top Cat  ???

[Martin]

 ;D It was Emu's Hilda that prompted this thread.

Nice paint job on Hui, Nicko.  The light blue looks the same as mine (Skyline blue) but your top looks darker than my dark blue (Fountain blue).

Classic line, Kiwi   :D :D  I can understand why you'd want to spend morew time with the EK "Mistress" that a ewe!  The conversation would be better for starters.

 8) Jo Cool with the Hilman, Emu.  Glad to see your taste in cars has improved.

Hey, Cat, you sure the TC is not really Top Cat  ???

[Martin]

What happend there  ??? :P

[RET]

My '56 is called "The Ol' Girl", if only because the previous owner called it that and I couldn't think of anything I liked better.  Ed suggested "Smurfette", but I'm afraid not.

The '57 is called "Faecal", not because it's a POS* ::), but because of the license plate "FEC00L".  When I picked up the plates from the RTA one of my co-workers thought it said "faecal", and it kind of stuck (as if to a blanket ;))

cheers
RET

* although that accusation has been levelled at it from time to time...

[blacky]

 My missus calls my EK the 'one armed bandit' because it takes all my money...