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jonnyporsche

jonnyporsche

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So here's a boring one for some. Is yours a She (like a lot), a He (like a few, see Ex Skyline) or a name like mine? (see Rob Diamond).

I call mine Rusty Bum. The reason, when I bought it (her) the only rusty body part was around the number plate lights, (photo's on request) so Rusty Bum she is called. What's yours called?
 
Steve Papworth (where are you now?) christened my first Black 944, "The Black Bomber"... So my second one became "Black Bomber II" the third, "Black Bomber III"... you get the idea... Except By the time I got to the fourth, it had just been shortened to "Bomber" and now, and not by me, but occasionally "Bom-bom"... Then I bought a fifth one, for spares, it wasn't destined to live, but it is still alive, so that is called "Johnny" (some of you will get the reference, "Number 5 is alive"... go on, admit it, you're old enough to remember!). Turbo has always just been "Turbo"... which could be confusing now there are two of them... good job the other one is called Johnny!
 
Erm. . . . My car was christened "Felipe" by another Region 3 PCGB member on account of the number plate and it's kind of stuck :)
 
I would call my S2 a Fast Shed !
Cos sills need to be sorted and it has a few scabs here and there !
It drives so well and reels me in every time I drive "it"
 
The previous owner called mine the 'Red Shed' and wrote an article for PP about the first stage of it's restoration. I've no doubt it was a shed when he bought it in 2008. My wife calls her Penelope because she's another woman that she has to compete for attention with.
 
My best friend "YOBO" (now departed) is a HE. Always has been, always will be! He was as Hard as Nails! In fact, all my Toys have been 'He's', come to think of it. My Black, modified VW T4 is called "VADER" for obvious reasons. he is Black throughout, inside and out. My Father even had cause to comment that "He looks as Black as a Bailiff's Heart" [:D]. Quite comical I thought! As for my 944 Turbo (which is also Black and, a He), I just call him "B&$tard".........for now. [;)]
 
Mines been christened by a friend as "poppy" as she is red and has pop up head lights, which everyone seems to love.
 
Quite a late Saloon. Itd been replaced by the Trevi long before then. My first car was a series two Beta HPE: MAB 387T. [:D]
 
"Beaky" is a he and was Beaky before I owned him, by virtue of his number plate **** BKE.

Most of our cars have/had names including:-

"Terry - The Tangerine Truck" 'cos Terry's orange.

"Fifi" the V8 Landie.

"Jasper" The Jaaaaaaag.

"Lancelot" a Land Rover Discovery

"Geoffrey" A Granada or he might have been a Saphire in which case I can't remember what the other one was.

"Simon" a Sierra

and "Sluggy" a Westfield that my dad said looked like a green slug.

 
Mine's Black Beauty of course. Unfortunately at the moment she is anything but due to the fact that she's missing her dash, but that's another thread for another time.
 
The S2 is "Trigger" as in "Trigger's Broom" due to so many parts having been replaced. My "Trigger" is most definitely female. My SLK is known as "The Reaper" based on its unusually high road-kill rate.
 
My Wife and Daughter can't understand how my car doesn't have a name but it doesn't just car, I reserve names for animate not inanimate objects.
 

ORIGINAL: zcacogp

Erm .... "The Car".

Have I missed something?


Oli.
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Where's the poetry in your soul Oli ? [;)]

Never named a car either though Mrs Suffolk944 tends to refer to my 951 as my "beloved" [&:]
 
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