Every 101 owner i know and has met has had the monster called a name, and a reason for having named the vehicle in such a manner.(Mine reminded me of a sheep we had it did'nt move much either) All trucks have their quirks and moans and leaks and thier very own distinctive behaviours. No respecting landrover owner ever go without giving them a name. And i am finishing with i bet not ONE of you out there has NEVER swore or cursed or foulmouthedor called them by something else other than there given name.........
Same here with this 'Expletive Deleted' range rover. Every 'Expletive Deleted' day it's doing something it didn't do the day before. How anyone gets these things around a global trek or whatever is beyond me!
The wife just says 'IT'!! usually preceeded by...'get rid of', 'scrap' or 'f**k'!
in article bjoec1$6kp$ snipped-for-privacy@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk, Brevit at snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com wrote on 11/9/03 1:09 am:
My Srs 1 is called Daisy 'cause of the big Sunflower in its grill and the Srs2 is Rose 'cause befor she was demobbed in 73 she was with the Lancishire Regiment and when stripping the paint of the front wing I found a large well painted rose on her,stupidly I neglected to photograph it to allow me to repaint it when she gets "restored".
Mine is Gemma - amongst other things - the reason she got this name has a lot to do with the Gemma's that I have met over the years as they all seem to have something in common, I'll leave it to you to work out as it would only be deleted anyway if I wrote it. Tommy was named by my late hubby - don't know why I still got it really (might have something to do with the fact I can't find the keys) K
Even the emergency services call their vehicles names, ie Fires Service long tradition to name engines.
In the mountain rescue service we too do that -
2K 110 Van - Nellie after the lady who left us enough money in her will to buy it.
2K 110 CSW 1 - Geoff after the man who got the Lottery Grant to buy it
2K 110 CSW 2 - General after one of the founder members of the team
2K3 110 CSW 3 - Unnamed as yet in fact still dont know what to call it, had it 4 weeks and its just being fitted out.
My 110 CSW is called Milennium Falcon, cos she's white and was built under the 'Falcon' project by Landrover (IIRC).
The first fortnight of driving her white smoke appeared through the dashboard (steam actually, from a broken pipe from the heater Matrix).
Since then, we're constantly saying 'She can do it' or telling her 'You can do it baby' or 'stay together baby'. My husband keeps hitting the dash board trying to get her to 'hit interstellar hyperdrive'. He won't believe the cigarette lighter does NOT turn into a lightsaber no many how many times he sees 'if its still working'.
First time he saw it, he said 'you're gonna drive us there in THAT piece of junk'? I had to tell him 'hey kid, that landy could've done the Sahara run in under 1.2 parsecs'.
He's now taken to wearing a Wookie outfit while driving shotgun.
I have so far resisted his suggestions to mount my grandmother in the rear, and convert her walking frame to a Multiple Pulse Laser Turret (although she's expressed an interest in this position and in the true spirit of one whose lived a full and long life she laughs in the face of Maximum Height barriers...). Its the only way she can satisfy her desire to shoot down the hordes of "TIE fighters" (Ford Street Ka's) constantly buzzing (overtaking) us, and deter the evil white clad hordes of oppression (White Van Men).
Our eldest offspring is now nicknamed Yoda after his repeated comments of 'landrover *broken* is?'
The youngest is now Jar Jar Binks as his response to being overtaken by a convoy of 17 frustrated Mondeo's is 'ooooh how rude'.
Also there's as many places to stash your 'gear' in a landy as there are in the 'real' Milennium Falcon - oh and she can take a helluva lot of damage.
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