[Shotimes] Re: Naming cars and ......

[Mike.Wojton@us.o-i.com]

I can see Lowrider or Money-Wasting-Knuckle-Bruising-Bitch.  But Bob
or Sam?  That's just nuts.  ; )


Mike Wojton
Toledo, Ohio

-'95 White MTX
   '96 Brake Upgrade

"Avoid the clap." - Jimmy Dugan




shotimes-admin@autox.team.net wrote on 03/09/2004 08:32:57 PM:

> 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
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