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By YellowWing - 15 Years Ago
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I was wondering how many on the board named their cars? I don't always but do so with cars and bikes that have character. 
Meet Oreo. 
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By Bobwanna - 15 Years Ago
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Very nice car! I think Oreo is appropriate. I know someone that had a 2 tone light green and dark green 55? Ford and they called it the "cucumber". I don't name my cars unless they #$% on me. Welcome to the site. -Bob
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By crenwelge - 15 Years Ago
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I have 4 1956 Fords and none of them have names except when something goes wrong. 45 years ago I called my 56 Customline the blue warbird. The guys with the T-Birds babied their cars while I was out there showing tail lights to 283s and 327s. The Warbird retires and becomes a grocery getter. http://picasaweb.google.com/crenwelgeoil/OurWedding02#5414396661431006034
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By Hollow Head - 15 Years Ago
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Yeah... our dragster will be "The Rapture"  And we also have "The Hollow Machine".
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By Hoosier Hurricane - 15 Years Ago
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When I was a teenager, the fad was to name cars, have the name lettered on it. I had a black/white '56 Victoria. A friend named it "The Penguin", and lettered that name on it for me. Dad drove it to work one day, boy did his co-workers rib him about the car. They liked the duals on it though. My present named car is my drag car, "Hoosier Hurricane".
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By Butch Lawson - 15 Years Ago
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I have a '78 F100 trash truck that is dark green and mostly rust. I call it "gangreen". I polish it with WD40.
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By Timbo from Mempho - 15 Years Ago
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I have always called my car Pop's 56 since I inherited it from my dad, but my wife refers to her as Black Vicky. Imagine the surprise when she told her mother that I was out with Black Vicky again!!
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By lowrider - 15 Years Ago
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I've called alot of my cars *@!*&^$%?
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By charliemccraney - 15 Years Ago
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I call mine "the truck." It took months to come up with that one.
It's very easy remember.
I'll go get "the truck."
Let's take "the truck."
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By mctim64 - 15 Years Ago
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Oreo is right on! I just call my cars what the factory called them but it is like a name, I don't put "the" in front of it, when I refer to my F-100 I say "Red and White truck" my MG is simply "MG" and so on but my wife's Triumph we call "Weird Herald". 
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By mctim64 - 15 Years Ago
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Sorry but my wife came in while I was reading this and she says "Oreo is a cats name that should be called Skunk"  That is what she said not me. LOL
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By Cactus - 15 Years Ago
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My present vehicles have acquired names over time. I have a 1994 Ford F-150 that has become Jeffs' Truck, because I bought it from my son Jeffrey. My wife has a Silver Nissan 350Z which, almost inevitably became the Silver Bullet, and my '56 Ford became, according to my wife, the Toy Car because she says that I play with it all of the time. There might be some sort of inference there, but I haven't figured it out yet. Any ideas? I just remembered, Old age and all, that my first '56 Customline was lettered with Ghost Rider. I always liked Vaughn Monroes' version of that song.
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By MoonShadow - 15 Years Ago
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I figured black on black should have a dark name so with defference to Kat Stevens I took the name "MoonShadow" Even made up a logo for it once but never put it on the car. 
The roadster was named by my grandson when he was very young I took him for rides and he called it the "Red Jeep". I guess it just stuck. Chuck in NH
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By texasmark1 - 15 Years Ago
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mine's simply "the Ford", cause when the kids were all small, that was the easiest thing for them to say when referring to the hulk residing in the garage...! now that its back together, painted real pretty and driveable, we call it "The Ford"!
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By PWH42 - 15 Years Ago
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I don't name them anymore but of course we all did back in the 50s.My first "real" licensible car was a 53 Pontiac Catalina that I bought on my 16th birthday in 58.It was a light yellow color so after some shaving and lowering an artistically inclined friend painted Ol' Yeller on the side. For the youngsters out there Ol' Yeller was a Disney movie about an old yellow dog,which described that straight 8 Hydramatic Pontiac to a T.
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By Ol Ford Guy - 15 Years Ago
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Well, I didn't name my car, but the man I bought it from owned it from 1958-2005. When I was pulling out with it on my trailer in S. California, he said Bye "Ol Black"...so out of respect, I guess it is still Ol Black.
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By Fordy Guy - 15 Years Ago
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My 55 Bird is referred to as "Blackie" and my 63 Galaxie is "Big 'un"
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By 56 big window - 15 Years Ago
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i call mine old school . i know its not very original , but it seems to work. Frank
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By Ol'ford nut - 15 Years Ago
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I have a black and white 56 just like yours. While it isn't a name I call it "Rock and Roll".
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By speedpro56 - 15 Years Ago
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I guess my first ride I bought in January of 1965 when I was too young to buy a car so I put it in my uncles name and Kept it at his place till I got my license, it's the 1956 crown vic I'm just finishing up a groundup resto on and it is what I called my first high school Flame. ( *Ole flame* ) and Ole Nelle. It is black and white as well.
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By aussiebill - 15 Years Ago
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Guys, i say this with a sense of humour! i think we have all had the same name for our cars at one time or another; Dirty rotten *^%#**)Mother/F*@*r!
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By Daniel Jessup - 15 Years Ago
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My wife names my cars for me. She called my 55 Club Sedan "Nellie" before I sold her (the car, I mean). My wife always said that the 55 was my "other wife". What she is going to call my 55 Sunliner I have no idea. I've got so many Y blocks laying around the garage now, she is about to just start calling.......
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By pintoplumber - 15 Years Ago
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I'm with Charlie, it's the blue truck.
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By 57FordPU - 15 Years Ago
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I always liked names written on cars when I was younger. A led sled would have something like "Moonlight Madness", or a fast car might be "White Lightning". It seems that song titles like "Blue Velvet" were popular if they fit the car. I simply refer to my truck as the race truck, but lots of others call it the "Flying Yellow Brick".
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By carl - 15 Years Ago
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My first 56 ford victoria back in 1959 had the Midnight Special written on the rear quarter,like a dummy i junked it in 1965.probably a better car than the one i have now before i restored it. Carl Ohio
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By YellowWing - 15 Years Ago
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We considered Skunk for awhile but for the two weeks leading up to the decision, I had trapped and relocated eight skunks that were digging up the yard  I had just about all the skunks I could stand.
Mike
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By aussiebill - 15 Years Ago
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When i was cruising the streets in my 1st 56 customline, wild violet metallic paint, dechromed with 8" chrome rims and cutout radiused rear wheel archs looking to race, there was allways a mean looking 56 sedan lowered etc with " KING CREOLE " painted across the front of the hood, allways seemed to emerge at same intersection at night! great era!.
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By mctim64 - 15 Years Ago
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YellowWing (1/14/2010)
We considered Skunk for awhile but for the two weeks leading up to the decision, I had trapped and relocated eight skunks that were digging up the yard I had just about all the skunks I could stand. Mike I can relate to that! Our dogs have got into it with three skunks this last week, that stuff is strong when it is fresh.
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By Brodie - 15 Years Ago
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Prior to paint my 55 was known as Reacher beacuse it always reached its final destinations. 
After paint, my buddy christened it the "Martini Mau Mau" (whatever that means). 
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By pegleg - 15 Years Ago
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My kids used to call my black 850 "Sir Throckmorton" (Norton). I now, very cleverly refer to my red '57 as "The Red Car"! I thought about several parodies of Hoosier Hurricane, but nothing came to mind. John pretty much owns the naming rights in Indiana for F codes.
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By Tom Compton - 15 Years Ago
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My first 56 Victoria was on hand from 1963 thru 1966 - lots of good memories - was Thunder Road. Who'd a thunk it? Anyway, my Dad looked a lot like Robert Mitchum and the 56 wasn't that far off the 57 Mitchum said the salesman promised him 140 on the flat. The current 56 gets many different names. Bug Killer, Geezer Pleaser, TR II, Screamin' Demon, Renegade. One may stick and get painted on somewhere.
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By gritsngumbo - 15 Years Ago
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My antique/classic trucks all have names:
"Little Red" is my red 64 F100 Shortbed Styleside
"Big Red" is my red 63 F100 Uni Longbed
"Big 'Un" is my red 63 F250 Long Flareside
Don't really have a name for my 63 Crew Cab yet (pre-project stage). Maybe BMF? :-)
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By BIGREDTODD - 15 Years Ago
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When I bought my F-100 (I was 16) it really struck me as an old farmer truck, and the name "EARL" jumped in my head and stuck. All through high school, and now, friends and family refer to him as "EARL"...to those outside the circle of trust, he's referred to as the "60". 
When the T-Bird arrived, after hours of clean-up it revealed itself as a classy/sexy 1950's icon...almost immediately she became "AUDREY", as classy/sexy 1950's to me is Audrey Hepburn...before clean-up, she was the "BARN 'BIRD"... 
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By shawniverse - 15 Years Ago
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 Her name is Betty because she is such a Betty!! My other car is a Lexus his name is Luther. Lexus Luther.
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