# Your car's name(s) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 26, 2000, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cars-name-s/13165 "2000-01-26T00:54:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2000, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cars-name-s/13165/21 "2000-01-26T12:07:00Z")
Norman: I’m Dutch, but my best guess for an English translation for your BX’s name would be _Shitbox_. Am I anywhere near? Personally, I think naming cars is a bit silly. Well, I can imagine it for a very old car that has been with you for ages, but for relatively new cars? Come on, no matter how much I love cars and driving, they are still nothin gmore than means of transportation. Some of the names here were rather funny though. Maybe I’ll reconsider 😉 ## A friend of mine has a Peugeot 205. It is named “Jean-Luc”. Yup, a Trekkie. **Coldfire** * * * _ **"You know how complex women are"** _ - Neil Peart, **Rush** (1993) ---
**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2000, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cars-name-s/13165/22 "2000-01-26T12:15:00Z")
Skodøsen seems to be shoe box. We had a station wagon for 8 years, an Olds, we called it our Herbie car, after the movie. My son misses it.We now have two saturns, so they are just big car and small car. ---
**Author:** ![Spiny\_Norman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Spiny\_Norman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiny_Norman)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2000, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cars-name-s/13165/23 "2000-01-26T12:55:00Z")
Wow - now I guess I’ll have to translate. “Skod” in itself means cigarette butt, but is also added as a prefix to anything that falls way below expectations. “Öse” is specifically slang for a rotten car. And that about sums up my experiences with that particular vehicle - a substandard rotten car. And even for a Danish word, “skodöse” is a truly ugly sound. Norman ---
**Author:** ![Bluepony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Bluepony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bluepony)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2000, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cars-name-s/13165/24 "2000-01-26T13:28:00Z")
My candy-apple red 95 Mustang GT: “Ticket Magnet” My wife’s practical 97 Mazda Protege: “Kidmobile” ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Thin\_Skin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@Mr\_Thin\_Skin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Thin_Skin)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2000, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cars-name-s/13165/25 "2000-01-26T13:33:00Z")
'94 Jaguar VdP - Mad Cat Car '99 Suburban - Suboiban '83 Jaguar VdP - Old Mad Cat Car My young son made up all these names. ---
**Author:** ![MadPoet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@MadPoet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPoet)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2000, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cars-name-s/13165/26 "2000-01-26T15:01:00Z")
'97 Plymouth Voyager “Bessie” '87 Mazda “Torak” (Crashed it, took out the left headlight and most of the left side. Rt side was fine.) '99 Neon “Dawn” * * * [http://www.madpoet.com](http://www.madpoet.com) Computers have let mankind make mistakes faster than any other invention, with the possible exception of tequila and handguns. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2000, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cars-name-s/13165/27 "2000-01-26T15:07:00Z")
Back in college, I had a '67 Chevy I named “John Paul I,” because it died every 30 days. My friend Sharon had a car called “Helen Keller,” as the horn and the headlights rarely worked. 'Strewth! ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2000, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cars-name-s/13165/28 "2000-01-26T16:16:00Z")
'64 Dodge pickup (with the slant six engine like my brother Tommy’s Dodge Dart) - lambcharger '78 VW Rabbit - Conejito (Spanish for little rabbit) but a friend suggested Alice since it was white. '82 Suzuki Katana 550 - road rash '66 VW bug - Midnite Cruiser (from the Steely Dan song) '78 Scirocco and '85 Buick Regal - \*&^%ing piece of %^\* '90 BMW 325i - Osito (little bear as in _The Three Bears_ as in this one’s just right) current Dodge truck - haven’t decided, open to suggestion. “Gas sucking pig” doesn’t have much of a ring to it. AWB - Did you get hassenpfeffer from _Poor Richard’s Rabbit Book_ or from the Bugs Bunny and Yosimete Sam cartoon? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2000, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cars-name-s/13165/29 "2000-01-26T16:20:00Z")
And it almost slipped my mind. For a brief time in the summer of of '86 I drove my grandma’s '75 Ford LTD. That boat was christened the Exxon Valdiz II. ---
**Author:** ![missdavis102](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@missdavis102](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missdavis102)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2000, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cars-name-s/13165/30 "2000-01-26T16:52:00Z")
When I was a kid, my mother drove a 1979 Chevy Nova. The big kind. It was powder blue, to boot. Around 1987-88, this thing became known as “The Shakemobile” because of the rapid side to side motion it produced while moving forward. A few years later it was donated to a somewhat destitute teenage relation. It promptly began spewing powder blue smoke from the exhaust. It’s name then became “The Smokin’ Blue Bomb”. In 1992 it died a painful death in a ditch. My Father and his wife had an Oldsmobile that was the ‘spare’ car. I called it “The Vacation Car”. My own cars have had names, too, but nothing spectacular: red 87 Dodge Shadow was Jet; the maroon 92 Honda Civic was Big Al; and the green 95 Toyota doesn’t have a name but I call it Mummy’s Precious Darling. ---
**Author:** ![Tymp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Tymp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tymp)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2000, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cars-name-s/13165/31 "2000-01-26T17:03:00Z")
1970 Chevy Wagon - Death Sled 1985 Ford Escort - The Goat 1990 VW Passat - The Missus 2000 BMW 323i - Sexy ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2000, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cars-name-s/13165/32 "2000-01-26T17:12:00Z")
1962 Chrysler Newport with bad belts – (Screaming) Mimi 1973 AMC Gremlin (yes, I had one) – Great Green Gremlin After that I had a whole string of cars that didn’t really deserve to be personalized. Then I got my '95 Taurus, which I love. As a tribute to my father, I named it after the only car he ever said he loved – Studebaker. ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2000, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cars-name-s/13165/33 "2000-01-26T17:26:00Z")
The Oldsmobile station wagon that my older brother drove in high school was called “Rambling Wreck” by our mom, and “Shitmobile” by everyone else. The '83 Suburban my dad tows everything with is known as “the Tuna Boat” due to its unweildy size. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2000, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cars-name-s/13165/34 "2000-01-26T17:46:00Z")
When I was a kid there was an old Cessna 150 at Montgomery Field in San Diego. I don’t remember the registration, but the last three characters were “2-8-Tango”. People called it “Shaky Jake”. My sister had a 60-something powder blue Chevy wagon. She called it “Sheldon”. My dad and I (the bratty little brother) called it “Smedley” after the Elephant character in Peanutbutter Crunch Cap’n Crunch cereal. ---
**Author:** ![Maelro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9dc877/32.png) [@Maelro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maelro)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2000, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cars-name-s/13165/35 "2000-01-26T17:53:00Z")
I have a (shit brown) '92 Honda Accord. His name is Hershey (as in the town where they make the candy in Pennsylvania). * * * “If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same.” Kipling ---
**Author:** ![Absynthetic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/97f17d/32.png) [@Absynthetic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absynthetic)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cars-name-s/13165/36 "2000-01-27T06:03:00Z")
'74 BMW 2002 - Princess. I didn’t name her myself; it was a drunken accident. ---
**Author:** ![cantara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@cantara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cantara)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cars-name-s/13165/37 "2000-01-27T06:27:00Z")
(all used, some over-used) '77 Chev Monza - ground pounder (a V8 was too big for this car) ‘77 Chrysler New Yorker - f\*\*\*in’ boat '68 Olds Delta 88 - grampa '80 Honda Civic - beater '85 Nissan 200SX - bastard '88 Merkur xr4Ti (Sierra) - Persephone '96 Nissan Pathfinder - Spence ---
**Author:** ![PUNdit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3da27b/32.png) [@PUNdit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PUNdit)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cars-name-s/13165/38 "2000-01-27T06:33:00Z")
'62 Rambler Station wagon that looked like it had been rolled a couple of times and got 42 miles to a gallon of gas and a quart of oil --The Tub '66 Rambler station wagon, was originally white top over green body, but had the hood replaced with a blue one, one door replaced with a red one and the tailgate replaced with a yellow one –The melting pot. '74 Gremlin was Grendel '67 red Alpha Romeo Spider Veloce – Hair Tangler. '79 VW Rabbit – Tow Bait (it lasted 21000 miles and was towed in 4 times.) * * * “You can be smart or pleasant. For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.” Elwood P. Dowd ---
**Author:** ![PatrickM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7feea3/32.png) [@PatrickM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickM)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2000, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cars-name-s/13165/39 "2000-01-26T19:11:00Z")
Back in school lo these many years ago, I had a 1984 Honda Accord that spent most of its time in the shop. I named it “Bob”, after Atlanta Brave 3B Bob Horner, who spent most of his playing career on the disabled list. I even taped a baseball card of Horner to the dashboard. ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2000, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cars-name-s/13165/40 "2000-01-26T19:44:00Z")
Way back in high school, my brother had a reconditioned post office Jeep that he called “the Mail Heap.” In college, I had a '74 thunderbird, white with maroon interior. I called it “Moby” and even browbeat my GF into giving me her SOS-pad holder, which was a white ceramic whale with open mouth, and glued it to the dashboard as a change dish. It had a bad steering column - the tilt-a-wheel wouldn’t lock in one position and just flopped around - and the ignition system had a short that worsened to the point that one day I turned it off, removed the key, AND IT KEPT RUNNING. Had to pull a spark-plug wire to kill the undead beast. My current car is a '95 Crown Victoria (I’m the envy of all the senior citizens in my neighborhood :)). It’s green, so I’m leaning toward “The Green Hornet,” but I’m holding off naming it until the plates arrive, so I can see if the letters suggest another name. * * * Live a Lush Life Da Chef [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cars-name-s/13165.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-cars-name-s/13165.md?page=3)