Naming cars and ...... was: Re: [Shotimes] SHOs are totally UNIQUE!!!!!!!

[George Fourchy]

On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 16:03:09 -0500, Mike.Wojton@us.o-i.com wrote:

>I still put the whole "soul" thing up there with giving your car a name.
>To each his (or her) own though.  : )

Giving inanimate objects a unique identity didn't start with cars.  What about
naming ships after people?  How long has THAT been going on?  What about World War
II airplanes being given names by their pilots?

Remember "Picadilly Lily", from 12 O'clock High?  What about "Enola Gay"?  Every
P-51, P-40, P-47, P-38, P-39, and even F-4s and A-1s from Vietnam had names, because
their pilots felt that the airplane was actively participating in the mission, and
protecting them from harm. 

Heck, we even had a C-5 named ''Miss Piggy'', because it was used in testing for
landing on dirt strips.....lotsa weight there, and we needed to know it could be
done.  That particular airplane, 680223, and I had a special relationship (shaddup!)
in addition to that....in two 4500 mile trips across the Pacific in a row, a week
apart, Travis AFB was within 1/4 mile of where we thought it would be.  Back in the
'80s, that was a significant feat....the normal navigation error after a trip that
long was 30 or 40 miles, which is enough to get into FAA trouble.  Normally, if we
started drifting that far off, we'd correct the computers.  But that airplane's
single inertial unit (totally different from the triples out there now in 747s) was
_perfect_.   That's how it went....the airplane protected us from getting into
trouble, and also showed how good a crew we were, so we gave it credit for the
effort.

A car is the same thing.  Lowrider hasn't had any mechanical trouble, to speak of,
and has been dirt cheap to enjoy, so I give it credit for that, and for protecting
my wallet.  This black car is starting out 'new', so I give it the same credit,
since its ancestor did so well.  I know that my trust in it will be justified.

It's a 'soul' thing.....maybe Feng Shue as well!

;-)

George