Naming the car.....Who has done this?

Kern Dog said:

MoparEdTN suggested G I N G E R for this car.....

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I usually think of a yellowish gold color when I think of Ginger but the name does have me curious.
People associate the word Ginger with redhead women.
There was Ginger on the TV show Gilligan's Island.
She was a beauty but a bit high maintenance.
Sounds sort of familiar...

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chargervert said:

Since when do you have to wear pants,when you have a van! What is this PC world coming too!

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Kern Dog said:

MoparEdTN suggested G I N G E R for this car.....

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I usually think of a yellowish gold color when I think of Ginger but the name does have me curious.
People associate the word Ginger with redhead women.
There was Ginger on the TV show Gilligan's Island.
She was a beauty but a bit high maintenance.
Sounds sort of familiar...

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moparedtn said:

What an enjoyable thread this has been to read through. Lots of great stories
and I LOVE good stories.
Thanks, KD!
(My suggestion for your red '70 would be "Ginger" for the obvious reasons)

Ok, as for my own - I've never been one to name cars. For some reason, it reminds me
of what my dad used to say about animals:
"Never name something that you may not want to keep."
So...when something gets named around here, it means it's never going away!

There have been exceptions. It took a lot of years, but my '04 Ram has more than earned
it's room and board around here; I'll have it long after everything else has passed.
I bought it back new, just "had" to have one of those new-fangled hemi's you know...
Come to find out, a single cab SWB 4x4 hemi is a rare critter and many have tried to buy her
in the years hence.
I present "Ol' Keeper" or just plain "Keeper":
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Ok, now to the '68 GTX you all know and are sick of reading about....
There's a bit of an ongoing debate between the wife and I over naming it that started one
day, when she made note that I sometimes refer to the car as "he" and other times as "she".
I simply informed her that at times over the last decade or so, the GTX has shown both sides of its'
personality - so whatever fits at the moment, I called it.

I'll let you guys decide the name. Here's the two options:
1. Wife insists it be called "Gertrude" because it reminds her of a lady who's rather "less refined" and kind of
big-boned and sailor-mouthed, but tries to look all pretty and sexy like a lady anyways.
I can see her point.

2. My entry into the name contest for the GTX is simply "Fred". Images of Fred Mertz from the I Love Lucy show
and/or Fred, Jerry Reed's dog in Smoky and the Bandit come to mind - along with every single Fred I've ever
known in life:
Kinda rough around the edges, a little surly/grumpy, but very matter-of-fact and ready to pack mule the load
every time. One of those kinds that will surprise you with a bitingly hilarious one-liner out of the blue once in
a while and will break out of character for just a second to wink at you like you're in on the joke.

I remember when I came up with the name...
One of those mornings back years ago when I slowly made my way out to the garage to work on the GTX
(while recuperating from whatever cancer surgery it was at the time).
I stepped in the door and hit the light switch by the door and looked over at the GTX, in pieces scattered
all over, the result of the latest project the car had been fighting me over stubbornly.
I sighed, still sore from the previous nights' wrasslin' and muttered "ok, Fred, we gonna do this today or what?"

It just seemed natural that a)by that point, I was talking to the car (!) and b)that the name "Fred" just came
out my mouth without even thinking about it.
Never said I was sane.
I present Fred/Gertrude - y'all decide the winner!
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Kern Dog said:

MoparEdTN suggested G I N G E R for this car.....
There was Ginger on the TV show Gilligan's Island.
She was a beauty but a bit high maintenance.
Sounds sort of familiar...

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