What's your car's name?

[Steve T]

My one and only (so far) Stude is a '62 Lark 6 2dr named Betty. Why Betty? Well I'm (apparently) a confirmed bachelor. Nevertheless, not one but two mailing lists I was on showed me as married, with the spouse in one case being "Elizabeth" and in the other "Betty" (actually that one is still uncorrected, got a Steve and Betty card in the mail last week!). Those are both variants of the same name; figuring the cosmos was ganging up on me, I circumvented things by buying a blue Studebaker and naming "her" Betty...after Betty Rubble of Flintstones fame, the prehistoric lady who always wears blue. That connects with my modern car at the time (2007) which was a deep purple '97 Neon called "Dino" after the Flintstones' pet dinosaur...

S.

[8E45E]

More names for our Studes in these threads, including mine:

http://forum.studebakerdriversclub.com/showthread.php?1972-NAMING-YOUR-CAR&highlight=moby

http://forum.studebakerdriversclub.com/showthread.php?8134-again-what-is-your-Stude-s-name&highlight=moby

Craig

[3rdGenStude]

My first Stude was a big black '50 Lnad Cruiser. "Boris" just seemed appropriate. When I traded it for a '55 Speedster project, "natasha" just seemed like the natural progression. I always liked Rocky and Bullwinkel, anyway. :-)

[Nelsen Motorsports]

My 54 Coupe. Can't seem to make a name for it.

[Play Wagon]

The car's a '59 Lark Regal wagon w/259 and Flightomatic named "Locomotive Breath", which I've owned since July, '78. So named for the prodigious cloud of smoke produced by flooring the accelerator, a characteristic which discouraged both tailgaters and flooring of the accelerator. It is currrently disassembled, awaiting an influx of time and $$$$ to return it to its original glory, sans the cloud. Incidently, I have named 10 of the dozen or so guitars I own/have owned. Strange habit, eh?

JSC

[Jim B PEI]

So far, I haven't named any of my Studebakers. The 49 Kaiser Special painted in Glass Green (like pea soup, but lighter) is of course, called the Green Goddess.

[ceecab]

Given my coupe's rather irritating habit of going 5 miles or 5 feet, [it has quit running again], i always called it the less than flattering name of Black B##tch

Jeff Rice said it probably broke down because it was insulted by the name and I should rename it a nice girls name
so- now its called Moriah--- the ill wind from the Frankie Laine song

[JJWMACHINECO]

My Turdebaker, until It's fixed and I'm able to drive it again.

[clonelark]

Scotty for my latest vehicle,a 1958 Scotsman, named lots of cars thru the years.
Connie for my 55 Conestoga
Low Boy for my 54 K.
Ole Betsy for several old ones that gave me good transportation.
My first car a 51 Pontiac was Speed & Power, named after the emblem of my U.S. Army company but was in Latin.

[aenthal]

My 1960 Edsel is named 2084 because it is the 2084th built out of 2846.
But finding a name for my 1952 Studebaker has proven elusive.
Tried calling it Old Fifty-two. Didn't stick.
My daily driver cars get called by their color ("the red car," "the gray car") and sometimes, where two are close in color their year ("the '86," "the '99").
But otherwise I have been a failure at naming my cars. The names just don't stick.

[DEEPNHOCK]

"The Yellow POS"
1937 J5 Coupe Express
Named by my closest, bestest Stude friends

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please post your car's year and model (and make if it's not a stude), its name, and how you came up with the name. post a picture with it, too, if you can.
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[DEEPNHOCK]

What broke?

My Turdebaker, until It's fixed and I'm able to drive it again.

[PackardV8]

Some anthromorphize vehicles, some don't. We had a long thread about this a year or so ago. It would be interesting to confirm a correlation between those who name cars and own dogs as well.

jack vines

[Pat Dilling]

STU COOL, named by folks that look at it and say "That's too cool". Car has a name, but no dog here.

Pat

[junior]

I just call it the Stupidbaker...it's used with affection around my house as my kids say (or used to) "can we go for a Stupidbaker ride" or my wife would say "are you going to work on your Stupidbaker today" When my Dad had the car he would just call it the Schtudie, why he put the German twist to it I don't know, but that name stuck for many years. Junior