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Does your car have a name?

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NanaandGrampy Mon 26-Sept-16 17:32:18

And if so , what is it and how did it get that name ?

We have always named our cars, from Red Sonia an ancient red Vauxhall in the 90's, Bodie from The Professionals for our Ford Capri from the 70's , and Big Bertha our enormous estate car from the 80's.

I now drive a Vauxhall Zafira called PoliceNanas car and received personalised number plates and a blue light from my grandchildren for a recent birthday !!

We'll be swapping cars in a few weeks so can't wait to see what that one gets calledvsmile

NannaM Tue 27-Sept-16 16:24:30

My old tank of a Volvo was Helga (wife of Hagar the horrible). I loved her so much......
She went to the scrap yard last year, at nearly 500,000 kms.

MammaN Tue 27-Sept-16 18:15:36

I thought I was the only one who named their car depending on the registration. How wrong I was! HDL was Handel, current car GKO is Gecko. Can't remember the others.

Ivanova5 Tue 27-Sept-16 18:46:36

I had a much loved Vanden Plas 1100 as my first car, that was Lizzie. Then a VW beatle, Alexander (after the A A Milne poem) After that, a series of nameless metros, and then I got a Citroen Xsara Picasso. It didn't have a name, until I was talking to a chap on the phone and he asked me how Cid the Citroen was. So, I'm on my 3rd Citroen now, and they've all been Cid!

grannypiper Tue 27-Sept-16 21:14:40

Our last car was called jal which was part of her number plater and also both ofour sets of parents, mine were John and Lena and DH were John and Leida

grannypiper Tue 27-Sept-16 21:21:14

EEjit, we too had a punto with the same name

Sillynanny65 Wed 28-Sept-16 14:43:53

I have a Toyota Aygo a fabulous little car, the only problem it doesn't like going up hills very much. The grandchildren call it Bumble, because it bumbles along up hills!!

Treebee Wed 28-Sept-16 19:28:57

I've a car named to remember the reg too; Kevin Christmas! Then I just have to recall the numbers!

Pamish Thu 29-Sept-16 22:36:46

Current car is Oona, from the OON number plate. She was 28 this year and still going strong for our very occasional outings, my Freedom Pass covers the rest. We started naming cars when we had three identical Renault4 vans,and it was the only way to sort out the keys and the rota.