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What's the name of your car?
Renegade:
The one thing that gets missed a lot is that cars have different names in different markets.
SeraphimLabs:
I miss my 1988 Chevy Nova.
For a no-go, it certainly WENT.
Only 90 horsepower, but that 1.6 liter carbureted engine could reach the all-important 88 MPH on a long stretch of highway, and pulled just short of 40 MPG the whole way.
Also so that's what a Gremlin looked like. My mom has told me stories about hers.
Edvard:
I had a friend named Brad whose name was famous in our circle because inevitably when the conversation turned to cars, the phrase "Brad's Nova" would be invoked and initiate a round of knowing nods, low chuckling and quiet tsk-ing. Brad's Nova was also affectionately known as The-car-that-would-not-die-even-when-we-finally-decided-to-kill-it. Long story. Great car.
Fred Nerd:
My first ute (pickup) was called Entropy. "Without constant input, entropy will always break down" Newton's third law of Thermodynamics
TaoPhoenix:
New angle: anyone actually name their cars something like "Joey" in that anthropomorphic sense we like to do to machines? Or is that a thing of the past?
"Joey" could be something like that poor ol' 1988 Ford Escort you had as a college kid. It didn't get much love from the Ford factory, it came third hand with 388,000 miles from a buddy for $50, but by golly it made it between your dorm and First Period class 4 miles each day. (It couldn't handle the 500 mile trip home, that was too much for poor Joey, but then that's what Parents are for.) So you put your band stickers on the back corner window, you put a new floor mat where your buddy had three too many drinks at a frat party, and you kept a stash of stray supplies in the glove compartment for when you were supposed to bring something like a protractor to Set Theory class for drawing Venn Diagrams. Or something.
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