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Old 05-06-2017, 05:56 AM
 
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Why? Will it answer and come when you call it's name?
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Old 05-06-2017, 06:09 AM
 
Location: Central Texas
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Always. The current ones are Ruby (ruby-red CRV), Sam I Am (goes by Sam, 1997 Dodge Ram 2500 Cummins diesel), and Tommy (Camry).
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Old 05-06-2017, 07:41 AM
 
Location: Vermont
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I have never understood the impulse to name one's car.

I also never gave a name to my shoes, my stove, or even my house.
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Old 05-06-2017, 07:46 AM
 
Location: Columbia SC
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I all my new Ford Explorer the Donald as my investments were up high enough since Trump took over that I paid for it with the extra earned money. I did not vote for him nor do I like him but he paid for my new car......LOL
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Old 05-06-2017, 07:57 AM
 
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I call my Toyota Yaris the Yaris and my Honda Civic the Civic .
I also dont get the need to get fancy with naming a bunch of nuts and bolts anything other than what designation it came with.
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Old 05-06-2017, 09:26 AM
 
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White Maxima = Maximus
Black Mdx = raven (beak)
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Old 05-06-2017, 05:41 PM
 
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I had a old 69' white volks van: Vanna (White)
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Old 05-06-2017, 08:59 PM
 
Location: West Des Moines
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I never named a car when I had only one. Now that I have two, a red one and a blue one but otherwise identical year and model, I call them Red and Blue.
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Old 05-06-2017, 11:04 PM
 
Location: Silicon Valley
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LOL This thread is a crackup! I have giggled through the entire reading. Fun stuff.

I had a big old truck at one point in my life when I was young. A beat up old Ford, can't remember the year, with multiple colors of paint peeling off of it, though the main color was a bright turquoise. Someone had installed air brakes at some point. The emergency brake wasn't reliable, neither were the regular brakes. I'd go bar hopping with friends (I think I was around 19 with a fake ID lol) and we'd come out and realize the truck wasn't where it should be, and find it balanced across someone's hedge across the street. Another time, the brakes didn't work and it flattened a parking meter. It was dubbed Sherman. And yes, I was a crazy wild thing when I was young.

The only other vehicle of mine that had a name was a Toyota Corona. It was the most horrible green color. At some point with my daughter, who was about 12 years old at the time and I was teaching her to drive it in parking lots and the local gravel pit, discussing that the color was similar to an iguana. So, it was dubbed Iggy. That was the beginning of my love for old Japanese cars/trucks. First used vehicle I ever had that rarely needed a mechanic. I abused it by attaching a trailer hitch to it and hauling a huge water tank full of water to my property. Me in my bright green old car hauling a truck bed converted into a trailer, completely overloaded with a giant water tank. What a little workhorse. Good old Iggy.

Some vehicles just cry out to be named.
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Old 05-07-2017, 09:52 AM
 
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
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Previous car: Trigger.
Current car: Betty. She's black.
Wham-a-lam.
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