Have You Named Your Car Yet?
Posted by christiancarguy on 25 August, 2009
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Last week Hannah Montana’s grandmother’s Cadillac ‘Loretta’ got the Clunker treatment the heartbreak made an entire episode. Contentment with your car comes from relationship. You’ll keep your car much longer saving thousands if you develop that relationship. We give names to things we love, Stu calls his youngest Peanut. Jesus named Simon, Peter. What’s the most viewed post at Christiancarguy.com The video of 91 year Old Rachel and her car 1963 Mercury named chariot. I estimate she saved nearly ½ a million dollars by keeping the same car. So go on give your car a name! Share your name story in comments.
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4 Comments on “Have You Named Your Car Yet?”
I had a VW dune buggy years ago at the height of the fad and named it Oscar. A couple years later I needed a car I could put that engine in and drive for a couple years, so I found a Karmann Ghia without an engine in Va Beach, Va. I named it theodore, which means Gift of God. I was saved 3 months after buying it, so Theodore had a real meaning to it. I also met my wife to be and we dated in it, much to the horror to her parents!
Years after we were married we bought a 5 year old Malibu from her uncle Ray and put 100,000 miles on it. That was my old green gas hog (17 mpg). My father bought a new 1964 chevy carryall that I inherited. We named that the beast. I had a red Nova recently that I fished out of a junkard and called it my little red roller skate, because someone with big feet could strap one on each foot and go roller skating. I have a chevy truck that is red and white. I named it Old Paint, after someone’s horse on the tv westerns………..
I Love those stories, part of Americana. My sisters started me doing naming cars, they both had Ramblers as their first cars, one named Andy that was later handed down to me and the other Named Sarge an Army green Rambler American she kept it nearly 20 years with countless miles. Now I have Old Red a1995 Dodge Dakota sport regular cab 4cyl 5speed manual, my dream is to keep it till I pass on…. Thanks for sharing….. Robby
The Bible tells us about God’s clunker program. The parable for the acronym “CLUNKER” is: Christ – Loves – Unconditionally. Now – is the time to get your Key – to Eternal – Regeneration (2nd Corinthians 5:17)
My wife’s car when I met her was named “Betsy”. It was an ‘88 Mazda 929 with 160K+ miles on it, but it kept trooping along. She earned her name by always making it as far as we needed her to (we’d talk to her, patting the dash, saying, “C’mon, Old Betsy”; I think this was also the name of Nutsy the Buzzard’s crossbow in Walt Diney’s animated “Robin Hood”). The first car we got together was a 2000 Mazda 626 that almost instantly became “George”. His name came from the Bugs Bunny cartoon where the big dumb goon had caught Bugs and was petting him rather harshly, saying, “…and I will love him and hug him and pet him and squeeze him and call him George…”. Betsy was then replaced by a 2003 Ford Escape 4WD, Given the amount of attention we paid to the new car compared to George (the Escape now always got the first car wash or vacuum), she became “Marsha” (as in “Marsha Brady”; in one episode, jan was complaining about how Marsha got whatever she wanted or something like that, and she whined, “Marsha! Marsha! Marsha!”—we assumed that was probably what was going through George’s ECU when he saw the attetnion we were lavishing on the new car). George’s untimely demise via F250 crashtest brought the latest member into our automotive family: a 2007 Hyundai Elantra. By now our daughter was old enough to understand the significance of naming the cars, so when we asked her what we should name it, she responded with “Molly” (which also happens to be her name – I think maybe she just likes having a car with the same name as her). So now we have Marsha and Mollycar (just so we don’t confuse the car with the child). I can’t say that we love our cars, but we do care a great deal about maintaining them and being good stewards of what God has blessed us with. We’ve been fortuntate to have very safe and trouble-free cars (partly because I am a passionate car enthusiast and research the heck out of any car we look to purchase, but mostly because God has blessed us so immensely and has rewarded our diligence in keeping up the cars He’s provided). I can’t say what or when our next car purchase will be (Marsha has <80K miles on her, Mollycar has <60Kmiles on her, and both cars run almost like new), but I can be certain that it will be named and it will be cared for like family.