Pet names for cars !

[4x2]

that could be another thread about pet names for cars...

Your wish is my command !!!

Right then, i'll start the ball rolling...

Fiesta - fester
Volvo 340 - swedish love machine (honest !)
Citroen xsara - lemon
mondeo - mondy the first (second and third)
Volvo 740 - love boat
Astra - ashtray

And one of our buses (Volvo/ayat bravo city B7) has been named 'The ASDA bus'... Because it rolls back !

[Lawrence]

that could be another thread about pet names for cars...

And one of our buses (Volvo/ayat bravo city B7) has been named 'The ASDA bus'... Because it rolls back !

[port perran]

We  have a 1972 Orange VW Bay Camper called Bertie.
Great Fun

[longbridge]

I have a souped up 1999 Ford Falcon Utility we call The Green Rocket, funny when it comes to cars I never really grew up.

[moogle]

My car is called Charlie:



20 years old and built like a tank. I'm always  when I'm driving here for some reason!

[Mr chapman]

fiat panda - amanda the panda

ford escort mk5 - the chav mobile 

[4x2]

My car is called Charlie:



20 years old and built like a tank. I'm always  when I'm driving here for some reason!

Good choice ! Last of the 'propperly built' merc's... keep servicing it and 300,000 won't be a problem !

My Audi is of the same vintage, and just as tough - they really don't make 'em like that anymore ! 

[moogle]

My car is called Charlie:



20 years old and built like a tank. I'm always  when I'm driving here for some reason!

Good choice ! Last of the 'propperly built' merc's... keep servicing it and 300,000 won't be a problem !

My Audi is of the same vintage, and just as tough - they really don't make 'em like that anymore ! 

Too right they don't!
I had the choice of Charlie or a '95 fiesta. The insurance was about £50 more for the Merc - fully comp.
A no brainer which one I'd look at 1st and end up buying really!
I've done over 3000 miles in her, including a few long trips from Cheshire to Kent and back with no problems.
Twice round the clock, which she's approaching, is only really 'run in' on a 190E. 
The motorway seems to be Charlies natural territory.
I swear she cries 'Das Autobahn! Wunderbar!' once she's on it! 

[4x2]

So that's what my car ('the panzer') is muttering on the slip road.... 

[polo2k]

HAHA, some good ones up there!

Heres a few of mine:
2001 polo - The OLOP



Gone but not forgotten!


Current cars:



GOLFIE (I had a boost leak on the dyno. on another run, I pulled 450Nm - Daily driver with Quaife and coilovers


MONA



IGOR My missis at the time wouldn't let me call our new cat Igor, so I decided that my mad new VR6 Morris Minor Traveller project was the perfect surrogate for the name.



The Gamma

[zwilnik]

I've got a dark blue Mini One called "The Gronk" (as it looks like one with its somewhat industrial looking alloys) and half own a BRG Cooper S "The Wombat" that I had my first actual drive of yesterday after part owning it for 5 years and passing my test back in march. Fun car

[polo2k]

So that's what my car ('the panzer') is muttering on the slip road.... 

At the moment mine is muttering something like, mmmm clutch!

[4x2]

Too many dyno runs ? 

[polo2k]

more like 50k miles on a semi race clutch. strangely it seems to be behaving again now, I think ive had at least one instance of clutch slip each winter, even on the stock clutch. hmm, maybe there is some funky contraction of something going on somethere, or maybe something icey in the release mech.

Im toying with the idea of moving on from the golf, but my issue is I want all the good stuff from the golf, and then some. Ive been thinking of a V6TDI A6 Allroad, hopefully the air suspension will be a good thing for my back, while the quattro should be good fun. Ive pondered fitting 2x VNT turbos so that I can get the same 2 bar that I get on the golf. Seriously hard on boost hoses though!

[4x2]

The V6 tdi A6 is a quality motor, quite high on my wish list !

Don't know if it's man enough for 2 bar of boost though.... Wouldn't the V8 tdi A8 be better ? (and more comfortable !)