Naming the car

[Roland Alcock]

Some have asked me recently, have your cars got names?

I have thought about this. 

The 1931 has Herbie painted on the bonnet, but I never refer to it as that. 
It’s called "The RN"
Similarly I have "The Opal"
And "The Chummy"
Maybe that’s the names I should painted on their bonnets.

My 3 year old Citroen should surely be called "Rusty" as it goes into the body shop on Monday to fix the corrosion on the bottom of the doors......

Or should I be using names like Lysimachus, Neoptolemus, Philoxenus?

Roly

[Jays]

Percy ?. Don’t blame me....blame my partner. Telling her that I’m popping into the garage to fiddle with my Percy gets strange looks!

[Duncan Grimmond]

I may have already mentioned this... in my youth (1963/4?) I remember seeing what I now think was a yellow Chummy with
"Harry's Tottle" painted in black on the bonnet sides. It lived outside a student-occupied house on St Mary's, York.

[Mike Costigan]

Nothing new with giving cars pet names, this is a Gordon England Brooklands in 1926:

   

Over the years many of my cars have been given names, but strangely some of the most loved have not had names ...

[Martin Prior]

When my brother and I bought our PD 45 years ago it was so full of crumbling filler that it became known as "Dandruff" and so it remains!

[Steve Jones]

I've never given any of my cars names but have, at one time or another, called all of them 'Basta*d'

Steve

[David Stepney]

Whilst i am not a fan of anthropomorphising cars, the kids have named my saloon 'Fug' (phonetic FG). Perhaps in homage to 'Brum'. It seems to have stuck!

[free_spirit07]

You might enjoy this old thread too - http://www.austinsevenfriends.co.uk/foru...p?tid=1307

[garryruck]

I had an RK which the previous owner called Hesperus as in "the wreck of the"

[Tony Press]

As I said back then -

Well- yes and no - The Chummy, The Latrobe Sports, The Saloon   

Cheers, Tony.