Who does this?

[86gngirl]

I was talking to my hubby last night about how we talk to our cars like they are people. Just wondered if anybody else does this too. We also named every one. Just seems like they all have different personalities from eachother. Well I guess my question is , are we alone on this? Let me know if you do this and what is the most popular name given to a car.Most car guy/gals around us do this. Just wanted to see what the rest of the world had to say.

 

[Boston GN]

I swear at mine quite often :biggrin:

 

[Grumpy]

I talk an yell at them all the time .. best thing is is that they never answer back !!

 

[86gngirl]

Come on guys, over 50 of you have looked at this thread and only 2 replies. I'm just trying to get some of you to get alittle giggle from this. Most of you what to rip each others faces off in these forums. Come on lighten up alittle.

Have you ever threatend your car( I have no problem scrappen you ****** ) and suddenly things go the way you want?

 

[XLR8]

I occasionally call my car "piece of s__t" when I am working on it - but always apologize later.
A girl I work with names all of her cars.

 

[Bescurred]

One time I had a primered aftermarket finder on my GN. I happen to be sooooo pissed off at the car that I punched a big dent in the finder. One other time I was on my back for a good 4 hours trying to get the transmission in and all I had left to do were the two tranny lines. I got the top on in and then the bottom one I stripped out. So at the point that was the most pissed off I have EVER been at the car, I know it was my fault but I just wanted to drive the damn thing. But I talk to mine too, her name is black betty. Or shamu lol.

 

[turbobuickman]

One time I had a primered aftermarket finder on my GN. I happen to be sooooo pissed off at the car that I punched a big dent in the finder. One other time I was on my back for a good 4 hours trying to get the transmission in and all I had left to do were the two tranny lines. I got the top on in and then the bottom one I stripped out. So at the point that was the most pissed off I have EVER been at the car, I know it was my fault but I just wanted to drive the damn thing. But I talk to mine too, her name is black betty. Or shamu lol.

I call mine black betty too, after the Ram Jam song of the same name. And yeah, I like to talk dirty to her.

 

[86gngirl]

I call mine Tess. She likes to test my patients alot. :redface:

 

[darkred87T]

A girl I dated asked me if I named my car and I said no I hadn't thought of it. Then she asked what the "T" in the steering wheel stood for and in trying to come up with a smart a$$ answer I replied "Tammy". Now I have "Tammy the Turbo T."

 

[Robbie-87plz]

I love my Angie...Named for the redhead Everhart. My wife kinda gets jealous I think sometimes...

 

[Drew L]

no

 

[zeus87gn]

Yes, we have names for all of them and I talk to all my cars. I swear it helps, but I also think all of mine are possessed. I just put another motor in the Jeep, I guess he didn't like the last one and cracked it.

 

[Turbo T/A 1543]

No, I don't, but one of my friends started calling my Buick "The Hoover" - I guess it fits!

 

[86gngirl]

Yes, we have names for all of them and I talk to all my cars. I swear it helps, but I also think all of mine are possessed. I just put another motor in the Jeep, I guess he didn't like the last one and cracked it.

Maybe he just dosen't like his name!
My husband hit a deer with his ten ton dump, never knew he did until he seen a deer flying around behind him in his mirror. I called that one buck buster. It snapped the horns right off and put a small dent in the bumper.The deer did die but some kid behind him saw what happened and asked if he could tag it and take it. My husband told him to take it cause he wasn't sure how many bone fragments got sent threw the deer. At least it was tenderized for that kid!! :biggrin:

 

[zeus87gn]

Maybe he just dosen't like his name!:biggrin:

Well, he came by it honestly. When I first got it, it has a sad factory top and the zippers for the side windows were broken. It was getting cold and I had to put the top on (couldn't afford a new one right then) so I got some small gauge SS bailing wire and stitched up the side windows to the top. When I got done my wife told me it looked just like the stitching on Frankenstein's monster. Not to mention he is put together with parts from here and there. The name stuck.

 

[86gngirl]

I take that back, his name is fitting! What does he look like now?

 

[zeus87gn]

Finally got a new black top, but i recently got some full steel doors off a 92 model. They look kind of strange being black and the rest of the Jeep is red only detailed in black.

Here's a pic from last summer...

 

[86gngirl]

Looks good! Are you gonna give him a bride? Just kidding. Looks far different than what you explained.

 

[zeus87gn]

It's folded down in the pic, but the top is aftermarket. The factory stitched up top came apart one cold afternoon on the way home from picking up the kids from school. I wish I had a camera to catch the look on our faces! The top just ripped slam off the rail on the top of the windshield and scared the cr@p out of us all! The replacement doors I didn't have at the time of the picture, and the remainder of the swapped out 'replacement' parts are under the hood. Insurance repainted the whole thing a few years ago, but it is fading.

I try to take good care of what I have for vehicles. Considering all 4 of them have better than 150K miles each, I don't have any choice. I can't afford another one right now. So no, a bride is not in the picture. (yes a bad pun)

 

[dragonational]

I talk to my cars also. The Truck is Beauty and the Car is called Brutal, because sometimes she is.