Does your Jeep have a name?

Every time I THINK I have just the perfect name,,,, I get all screwed up.

*sigh*

nothing new for me I guess...

: > Does your Jeep now have a name Bill? : >

: > Let me think, I have had - Baby, Shug, Smokey I & II : > Ol Blue , Buddy - Phillip .. more I have forgotten Many did not get names.

Well... sometimes I think of it as Little Red, my Champ pickup is Big Red.

Jeff DeWitt

Kate wrote:

What's up with that fairing around the tub? I had forgotten about that...

Well, my first jeep was called Mud Dauber it was an old CJ5 we used when I was a kid on the farm. We used it for snow plowing, running the fields, getting groceries, fishing. We called Mud Dauber because it did not have floor boards and you always got covered in mud.

The first jeep I owned was a 76 CJ7 and I called her Buoy Butt it was a Coast Guard thing.

My son and I restored his first jeep a 79 CJ7 about 10 years ago he named it Crystal after his girl friend now his wife. I painted it British Racing green and it really looked sharp and it was the only color of that type for

3 counties. Then a new water tower was built in our town and they painted it the same color as his jeep so I started calling it Water Tower he was pissed.

My 04 TJ is called Damn The Bad Luck, it seems no matter where I go I pull some one out of a ditch, give them a jump, watch others sit in mud up to their axles, or others just do stupid stuff and I kept saying Damn The Bad Luck, well it stuck.

My wife's 04 WJ is called Goldie because of the color. Coasty

You're just jealous.

: > Every time I THINK I have just the perfect name,,,, : > I get all screwed up. : >

: > *sigh* : >

: > nothing new for me I guess..

That's pretty cool. Let me guess, they're both blue ? ;¬D

Both of our rigs are white. I like that, they look good in the driveway that way.

Good stories Coasty, thanks! Maybe that's the problem I am having with this one, not enough shared experiences to find the perfect name yet.

I especially like the water tower story.

Kate

: > I'm just curious, would ya'll mind sharing? : > Maybe the story of how your Jeep got it's name. : >

: > Actually, I think it would be a cool website project. : > A photo, the story, photo with Jeep and Jeep's pet person. : >

: > I've been trying to decipher "who" my Jeep is since I picked "him" up in : > Missouri. : > I thought of this name on the way home and dismissed it but it kept coming : > back to me and this morning while cleaning the bugs off his face it came : > back again. I figured he was trying to tell me something. : >

: > "Jack" Like a male mule - strong - stubborn - dependable - surefooted and : > sometimes a tad unpredictable. : >

: > and here I was looking for something SO much more complicated than that. : >

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I named mine Clementine because the "Oh my darling" phrase kept floating through my mind for weeks after I bought her. It was also a feel good car song my Gramma & I used to howl driving up to Topanga in her Flivver. About a month after I formally named the Jeep I found out Clementines are oranges....

Seahag

My wife calls her Libby "Lil Jeepy"

That is just too cool! What a happy coincidence. I have yet to see an Orange one. You would think that here in Tennessee there would be a zillion of em.

See, I am a Chapstick Junkie. Have them everywhere. Use it to lube anything, fix squeeks, sooth burns, make bolts thred in easier it's like my minature swiss army knife and roll of duct tape. Since my Jeep is White and black... but I am still haveing so much trouble finding the name that is just right.

Ok, now I must go out and pet the Jeep again, and go for a ride.

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'Pet names' for cars are always interesting. This white/grey horse is named Hidalgo, mainly because we go anywhere and neither of us gives a damn what others say about it. 'Charlene' my last trophy-car was so named because of her firery-red temperment and because she was always getting me into trouble with the Law. Typical female.

I once owned a clapped-out 1968 Dodge Polara that I named Max, The Road Warrior. It was an old ex-CHP cruiser equipped with an old 440-ci V-8. It was spray-painted, had no reverse gear and only got 3 miles per gallon. $100 cash bought him for commuting to/from work in a very bad neighborhood. Someone shot at it one night, hitting the radiator; he completely bled out as we roared out of Mao-Mao Land; the engine siezed and he had to be scrapped because of that. Sad to see him go. But he got me home in one piece, so it was worth the effort.

The big truck's name is Blue. Don't know why. He just told me one day that this was his name, take it or leave it. Yes, machinery speaks to me. Few know how to listen anymore.

There is a guy in town. Lights in the sky talk to him. They tell him that they are extraterrestrials, who are going to come and rescue him from this insane planet some day. The rest of us call them "stars". I guess we have forgotten how to listen.

Earle

I've wanted a Jeep since I was 15 and had a crush on MacGyver. So when I finally got my Jeep in '99, I was trying to call him "Mac" in honor of the show. But every time I said his name it came out with an "s" on the end. So he very quickly became "Max"...

Tirya

I suppose Peek-a-boo is out of the question:^>

Seahag

The Race Jeep

: : Seahag : No! Not at all! It's really cute! Billy Ray suggested Ajax and it' stuck in my head too. Just about th time I think it's a he I start calling it she. Poor thing.