Here are a few:
1964 Herald 1200 Convertible: Old Weird Herald (takeoff on the Bill Cosby
character)
1960 Herald Convertible, Coffee paint: Juan Valdez (think about it)
1960 Herald saloon: Joseph, so named for the fact that it sports some body
panels of varying colors
1962 Herald 1200 Coupe (most recently lived in Kansas before I got it, but
not in Kansas any more): Toto (again, think about it)
1960 Herald Coupe, Monaco Blue paint: Grace (an admittedly horrid double play
on words, one of them a bit of a stretch; if you don't figure it out,
consider yourself lucky)
1952 Mayflower: Priscilla (after one of the Pilgrims, of course)
A long-gone white Herald 1200 convertible I had in high school and college
was originally nicknamed "The Virgin" until the first time I crashed it.
After that.... :-)
A white 1967 Volvo 144, with its refrigerator shelf-like grille, came to be
known as "The Norge". Meanwhile, a succession of Volvo 140 series wagons were
known as the "Swine of Steel" (inspired by Satch Carlson's Piggue of
Plastique" moniker for his Saab Sonnet).
And my great-aunt always named her cars Pegasus. I have the last of the four
Chevy Coupes she bought and drove in her lifetime, a 1951 known as "Pegasus
IV."
Other than that, I've not named most of my cars. ;-)
--Andy
Andrew Mace, President, The Vintage Triumph Register
<www.vtr.org>
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