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Does your truck have a name?
- Thread starter rampage
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rampage
3/4 ton status
Some people do:
Graceland
Neverland
Playboy Mansion
(Winchester) Mystery House
White House
Hearst Castle
beags86
Eastbound and Down
I get it, that's how my truck got dubbed "big red" I happened to have 3 red trucks at the time. Well I technically still do. And my buddy would ask what I was going to drive and I would say, "My red truck" being a smartass knowing that didn't tell him what he wanted to know.Certainly can't answer the psychology of why vehicles get named...to differentiate among multiples? It's shorthand..."the red two wheel drive chevy" or "the black dodge 3/4 ton". "the '87", "The beater", "money pit" , etc.
I don't have multiple blenders for instance, so "the blender" works.
The Trazer is the Trazer, and my Blazer is the Big Blazer. That's about as extensive as I get.
It's usually a story or an event of some sort that leads to a vehicle getting a name. I also have another with a name because I have two white Tahoe's.
Mine are all called what the manufacturer sold them as.
This thread is a repeat, but I can not find the other one.
This thread is a repeat, but I can not find the other one.
79rustyk10
3/4 ton status
Blue truck
Black truck
The 06
The Nova
I just keep it simple.
Black truck
The 06
The Nova
I just keep it simple.
rampage
3/4 ton status
Some "people" call the crew cab Dimples. I call it the crew cab. The 1973 C10 is "the 73" and the 1966 C20? Yep you guessed it, "the 66".
LOL, you guys have it easy. People ask me what I have, and I always pause before I answer, because not everyone knows nor cares about the intricacies. "The state says it's an '81, but the tub is '85". Or "it's an older full size Blazer".
I agree to a point. It's somewhat why I like the idea that no one gets to name their own vehicle. A name can be handy since to a certain degree we all drive the same thing, and/or have several of the same thing, and it becomes an easier way to talk about someones vehicle other than "the white one, no the other white one, no, the one with the lift, the bigger one...etc"
Around anybody other than you guys, my blazer has always just been "the blazer" or "the '72". My daughter always called it "big yellow truck". Those names worked just fine because it is unique enough to be the only one of any of those around. Around you guys, not so much... although the yellow does stand out in the crowd still.
Oh, and now I have 2 of them.
The best names are organic, ie, everyone just starts using the name and it sticks. Or, it's named by your kids.
Joshes blazer is named Buttered popcorn.
My truck is named Horton.
I have tried to name a couple trucks. Has to be a story and someone else naming it.
Bailey called my crawler Horton one day. It stuck with my friends, eventually it just stuck.
Oh @beags86 I named my toaster Reginald. Unfortunately Reginald died a fiery death and now I shall no longer name any toasters
H20 Toie
1/2 ton status
89 crew cab dually is Truck
90 Suburban is Suburban
91 Blazer is Blazer
92 van is Van
17 Hellcat is Best damn car i have ever had
guess i'm not very creative
90 Suburban is Suburban
91 Blazer is Blazer
92 van is Van
17 Hellcat is Best damn car i have ever had
guess i'm not very creative
penak
Newbie
Maestro
I've always been very Proud of being HAWAIIAN.
Just refer to mine as the blazer
My grown daughter refers to it,gas guzzling planet killer,,,she is way left,but it pulled her sorry ass Prius out of a ditch during a ice storm last winter,she still hates it,so I keep bringing it up at times
My grown daughter refers to it,gas guzzling planet killer,,,she is way left,but it pulled her sorry ass Prius out of a ditch during a ice storm last winter,she still hates it,so I keep bringing it up at times
Way back when I first started the paint in the driveway, my neighbor deemed it "Old Yeller":
I think maybe that cars started getting named back when cars were "everything"....almost like a part of the family. They were freedom...they also were a persons "identity"...I grew up in a small town (less than 7000 people) and you knew who the person was coming down the road because of the car....and also the kind of car they owned said something about their personality. I'm coming form an old time angle on this because I grew up in a time when your car was part of becoming an adult and the freedom it afforded...and it the radio (music)...cars were a HUGE part of our lives...no surprise in naming them.
I'm not so sure these days...I don't have a name for my Honda...I don't think of it the same as I do my Blazer or any of the cars I owned back in the 1970's and 1980's
