Clementine - for obvious reasons Tangiers Orange - gone, missing her
Replaced by Ewok what a mistake - now a happy Disco Sport owner

Mine's called "IP" after the author of "Flooded Bathroom".

My MX5 RS is called "Bottom".

What can I say, I like bad puns.

I had a mini years ago; drum brakes all round.
However, it got me everywhere, snow, ice the lot. Rugid little car.

There was a girl at our factory who was of such build that it was rumoured she could crimp battery cable terminals under her armpits.
So i named the mini after her; 'Betsy'.
I've not named a car since.
Nowt has come anywhere near!! Another member of the failed FL2 clutch/DMF club, twice.

djwhyte wrote:

christian138 wrote:

Jaffa? or maybe Dale (Winton)?

Oooh, Jaffa is pretty cool

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Yes?

Ours is called 'Leona', as named by my daughter!

We have previously had 'Billy Beemer', 'Zavvy Zafira' and 'Molly Mazda' to name a few! She's 8, what can I say

Andy

Heard about naming body parts, but cars - an inert piece of metal............

Don't let Clementine hear you saying that  Tangiers Orange - gone, missing her
Replaced by Ewok what a mistake - now a happy Disco Sport owner

Still say it's a strange practice.

Do you celebrate the car birthdays and the like? Tell it to behave if it wont start? Reminds me of Basil Fawlty giving his Austin a damn good thrashing with a branch.

My first car was a minivan called Mildred. Yellow with black roof. Second was a Bedford CA called Bertha. Nowadays they all get called Rover though.

dunroof wrote:

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Do you celebrate the car birthdays ?

yes I buy it a new tax disc  At work
At home

"I can't always believe facts I read on the web" - Charles Dickens

winner by default of the tractor vs caravan race

dunroof wrote:

Still say it's a strange practice.

Do you celebrate the car birthdays and the like? Tell it to behave if it wont start? Reminds me of Basil Fawlty giving his Austin a damn good thrashing with a branch.

....well... Last winter after the thaw I was driving back from a particularly dreadful cow caesarean (and late for evening surgery)... Driving up the two mile long single track, I came upon another car (feed rep in a mondeo). There was no way that he could have pulled over so I did the gallant thing and pulled off the road onto the field to let him pass. Huge mistake, sunk... Pressed accelerator.... Wheel spin... Played with terrain response... Still stuck... Turned DSC off... Still stuck... Was getting fairly irrate at this point (aware that 4clients were already at the surgery 6 miles away). I then shouted at her 'MOVE MILDRED!' and guess what, she moved! Covered in mud... Back onto the track and away we went. Good old mildred... She's never let me down

So basically after inserting your hand up a cows rear end and cutting her open, you carelessly drive into thick mud and then bully the car! Sure you arn't related to Basil Fawlty?

dunroof wrote:

So basically after inserting your hand up a cows rear end and cutting her open, you carelessly drive into thick mud and then bully the car! Sure you arn't related to Basil Fawlty?

yeah...think It's more like carry on vets!

Yep, I have a friend round York whos a Vet - Langworthy. He is suffering from Chilblanes just now. Cold weather, need to use bare hands and Cows nether regions - no sympathy, he gets well paid for the discomfort.