My motor is an 8 year old MGF & I love him. His name is 'Boo'!
He has not worked for 2 months now so i really should get him to a doctor.
My Husband (Whom i hate today) has a Focus called 'Filthy Fooker'.
Anyhoo am I the only one who names their car.
According to some Norfolk chap, naming a car is a sign of madness. The geezer told me this wearing one of those ridiculous wooly hats, with long plaited straps hanging down. He looked like some nazi rapunzel.
My first jam jar was a black Ford Zephyr, lethal thing that eventually failed its MOT because when the steering wheel was moved the box moved under the bonnet as it levered its way off the chassis. No name for that one although the MOT people referred to it as a 'death trap'! The next four were all variations of Ford Anglia ... first a black 'sit up and beg' that had a means of locking it that involved me carting around a brass door handle with square end to get into it, had no driver's side window and I'd busted off the semaphore indicators taking corners too sharp. Next three Anglias continued the naming convention with 'Iron Lung IV' (complete with painted-on flames from the headlamps back). Then there was an A40 full of rust I got from my first father-in-law. All the foregoing ended up at the local breakers after my TLC. Next a mini with a Mini Cooper badge (where the resemblance ends) that someone had shoehorned an 1100 engine and gearbox into while retaining the smaller road wheels (real rubber burner from the lights but could only get up to 70 with that gearing and the speedo naturally read all wrong). Then there were a couple of Rovers and a Vauxhall Victor ... and eventually the 'company car' period (they have the advantage that they do 75mph in first gear and never need to have the oil, water or anything else checked by the driver 'cos if anything goes wrong they just give you another one! The last car that got called something was the Piaggio Porter 7 seat sardine can we used when we first came here ... affectionally named named 'Pedro' but we finally sold it to some Moroccan gentlemen three weeks ago. Our current wagon is a Ford Galaxy but the paint is cooking off it with the sun and the inside door panels keep falling off, and, and ...
I really wish I still had the Mini ... it was the one car I had where I could roughly understand how it worked. Like all the early motors it had the 'hand paint' job (mostly done with house paint and a roller!) done on it ... it ended up a sort-of pinkey-orange ... in the good old days when 'lets paint the car' was a good way to relieve the boredom for a couple of hours at a weekend before heading off to a party.
Of course all those elaborately decorated vehicles did rather tend to attract the attention of those nice gentlemen in blue. I ran a disco with a friend in the sixties and you could guarantee getting stopped at three in the morning with a load of sound equipment in the back!
I love the old Fords. The first car I remember we had was a mark 1 Cortina. We also had a Vauxhall Victor estate. The first car I owned was an orange Datsun 140J, a hand-me-down from my parents, known affectionately as the heap of shit. My husband forced me to sell it for £100 as he was so embarrassed by it. He claimed it was useless but we knew who we'd sold it to, and years later it was still going strong. Current cars - Espace called Flossie and Vectra the children have named Chris Martin but I have no idea why (horrible car).
My car is called Whinnie Bubble Spaceship. My brother named her!
Me and my mate named his car Andrea but his girlfriend got all weird and started asking who Andrea was so we changed it to Andrew... she's still worried.
Quote: puffinpol @ December 28, 2007, 9:27 AMI love the old Fords. The first car I remember we had was a mark 1 Cortina. We also had a Vauxhall Victor estate. The first car I owned was an orange Datsun 140J, a hand-me-down from my parents, known affectionately as the heap of shit. My husband forced me to sell it for £100 as he was so embarrassed by it. He claimed it was useless but we knew who we'd sold it to, and years later it was still going strong. Current cars - Espace called Flossie and Vectra the children have named Chris Martin but I have no idea why (horrible car).
Does it make a high pitched whining noise all the time?
Quote: Charley @ December 28, 2007, 4:04 AMThe geezer told me this wearing one of those ridiculous wooly hats, with long plaited straps hanging down. He looked like some nazi rapunzel.
Quote: paul watson @ December 28, 2007, 2:08 PMMe and my mate named his car Andrea but his girlfriend got all weird and started asking who Andrea was so we changed it to Andrew... she's still worried.
Quote: puffinpol @ December 28, 2007, 9:27 AMVectra the children have named Chris Martin but I have no idea why (horrible car).
No link there then.
Absolutely not!