Gender and personality of your vette?
12-06-2011, 02:41 AM
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my 67 is named the mid-life mobile,my ex wife named it that when it came home in a bunch of boxes, 12 yrs ago!i drove it for the first time last summer,now i know what she meant
12-06-2011, 09:01 AM
#43
Team Owner
When I saw this thread, I was wondering how long it would be before you rang in!
As long as I am posting: Carlisle 2008, I was looking to buy a C3 and had the wife and kids with me. When the kids saw a car they really liked, they would ask me the name of the paint color. By lunch time, I realized they were using the paint colors as "names" for the cars. The cars I liked were Warbonnet Yellow, Steel Cities Grey, and Bridgehampton Blue. So in a way, my car does have the name "Bridgehampton Blue", but I would never say something like "I'm going to take Bridgehampton Blue out for a ride."
12-06-2011, 09:11 AM
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Le Mans Master
When I saw this thread, I was wondering how long it would be before you rang in!
As long as I am posting: Carlisle 2008, I was looking to buy a C3 and had the wife and kids with me. When the kids saw a car they really liked, they would ask me the name of the paint color. By lunch time, I realized they were using the paint colors as "names" for the cars. The cars I liked were Warbonnet Yellow, Steel Cities Grey, and Bridgehampton Blue. So in a way, my car does have the name "Bridgehampton Blue", but I would never say something like "I'm going to take Bridgehampton Blue out for a ride."
As long as I am posting: Carlisle 2008, I was looking to buy a C3 and had the wife and kids with me. When the kids saw a car they really liked, they would ask me the name of the paint color. By lunch time, I realized they were using the paint colors as "names" for the cars. The cars I liked were Warbonnet Yellow, Steel Cities Grey, and Bridgehampton Blue. So in a way, my car does have the name "Bridgehampton Blue", but I would never say something like "I'm going to take Bridgehampton Blue out for a ride."
12-06-2011, 09:29 AM
#45
Drifting
It does take imagination to think of so called "inatimate objects" and to develop personalities with and for them, give them names, relate to but if you use your machine at some point if you have imagination you inevitably will start to form a sort of partnership with it as you use it and when you do that partnership is no longer just steel, springs, oil and gas.
One can live without imagination as some of you suggest and prefer but then, if you have any creativity at all in you, why would you?
I vote for naming 'em because it means you've learned well enough to develop a kind of partnership with your Vette, or your sailboat or anything complex that takes complicated steps to operate well and is beyond that of objectivity.
One man's opinion...
Lance P.
One can live without imagination as some of you suggest and prefer but then, if you have any creativity at all in you, why would you?
I vote for naming 'em because it means you've learned well enough to develop a kind of partnership with your Vette, or your sailboat or anything complex that takes complicated steps to operate well and is beyond that of objectivity.
One man's opinion...
Lance P.
12-06-2011, 10:19 AM
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St. Jude Donor '09
It seems that most vettes are girls: Shirley or Kerri or Donna or Lizzi or such . Am I the only one that has a male vette? Chime in, I want to know about the gender and personality of your C3.
Mine is named Mozart because he is beautiful, powerful and moving. He growls like a guy, rumbles and throbs. Yours?
Mine is named Mozart because he is beautiful, powerful and moving. He growls like a guy, rumbles and throbs. Yours?
12-06-2011, 11:22 AM
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Well, if he wasn't 'pulling our [respective] leg(s)', it would have been worse.... 
12-06-2011, 01:55 PM
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Sheesh, some people sure would like to take a fluffy and light hearted topic a little seriously. Naming a car is fun, it's not like those that name their car think that the car is actually another flesh and blood person. Boats are often named and female. Why the hostility for something fun?
12-06-2011, 02:14 PM
#49
Instructor
Why do we name hurricanes?
Some people name inanimate objects others think it's lame.
Regardless, those of you who have nothing nice to say shouldn't have clicked on the thread entitled: "Gender and personality of you Vette?"
Andy
PS
What do hurricanes and marriage have in common?
In the beginning there's lots of sucking and blowing and at the end you lose your house.
Some people name inanimate objects others think it's lame.
Regardless, those of you who have nothing nice to say shouldn't have clicked on the thread entitled: "Gender and personality of you Vette?"
Andy
PS
What do hurricanes and marriage have in common?
In the beginning there's lots of sucking and blowing and at the end you lose your house.
12-06-2011, 04:03 PM
#50
Team Owner
I don't have any hostility for people who name their cars. I just think it is in the same category as guys who name their phallus.
12-06-2011, 05:46 PM
#51
Drifting
You have led a very sheltered life!
Yes, when the kids were little, I had my first Explorer, the kids called it "Dora" (from the show "Dora the Explorer" for those who are far from having little kids). I generally called it "my truck".
I don't have any hostility for people who name their cars. I just think it is in the same category as guys who name their phallus.
I don't have any hostility for people who name their cars. I just think it is in the same category as guys who name their phallus.
I'm laughing at the last sentence really a lot. Thanks for the laugh.
Lance P.
12-06-2011, 06:23 PM
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But not as funny. Well, maybe the CF member who named his car, Rosebud.
Which reminds me of the 2 & 1/2 men episode where the white guy's ex named his ***** snickerdoodle, but the black guy's ex named his Mr. Roundtree;
you know, Richard Roundtree? SHAFT!!! 
12-06-2011, 08:25 PM
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1980 Corvette, and she is definitely female. Needs constant attention. But she's worth it. I chose the name Yvette, I think it's pretty obvious why.
Scott
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12-06-2011, 11:39 PM
#56
Safety Car
My eight-year old daughter has been calling my 68 "McQueen" almost since she could talk
I just call it the Vette, or any number of other names the mods here would frown on if I mention them
the wife calls it "Your Corvette" that works too
12-07-2011, 03:50 AM
#57
Pro
Last night I watched a documentary about
the Mars rovers "Spirit" & "Opportunity"
and each scientist (male & female) involved with the missions,
referred to them (individually) as "SHE".
the Mars rovers "Spirit" & "Opportunity"
and each scientist (male & female) involved with the missions,
referred to them (individually) as "SHE".
12-07-2011, 07:35 AM
#58
Waldo
I purchased my 69 Vert from the original owner in Waldorf Md, so, he, is named Waldo. The only thing though, it makes me think of the nerdy Waldo in the Van Halen video way back when. He is definitely not a nerd w/ 11.0 to 1 compression. Haha.
12-07-2011, 04:03 PM
#59
Racer
Think of it more towards the old wheres Waldo books. It was a long hard search to find the "right" one but now you did your happy.
12-07-2011, 08:37 PM
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I've found over the years that it's usually something extraordinary that happens before a car gets named. I 've had MANY cars over the years and only 2 were named. A '76 Chrysler that everyone called "Earl" and a '37 Plymouth Coupe that everyone called "Couperdecar". Each had a long story on how it got named. Most of my buddies knew the story or were even part of it. All the buddies were the same. Some of their cars had names because there was a story behind it. Naming a car makes a connection with people - unless they don't know the story. Then people just think youre wacked in the head