Land Rover Names

I have a 110 his name is Ernie

"Brevit" wrote in news:bjoec1$6kp$ snipped-for-privacy@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk:

My red Defender 90 was The Tamworth Sow, but not since I did the bushes.

Derry

Brevit tried to scribble ...

Our S3 was called Scar .. reg was SCA --- R ... ;)

On or around Thu, 11 Sep 2003 01:09:24 +0100, "Brevit" enlightened us thusly:

well, I curse mine sometimes, but it hasn't really got a name as such.

My 110's called "you 'Expletive Deleted' pile of 'Expletive Deleted' work you 'Expletive Deleted' thing" at least thats what i call it most often.

My green 90 is called Mavis. No paticular reason.

My Disco is called Piglet, because it's not red. Confused?

Neil

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

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On or around Thu, 11 Sep 2003 12:48:35 +0100, Dave Wheatley enlightened us thusly:

they usually start with a new one or else spend lots of time and money fettling it.

Apart from the types who buy an old series II and set off, and get local bodgers to fix it en route.

My S3 answers to the name Smelly cos it does and the No plate SML ***Y

My D90 is called Happiness Stan, and we are still looking for whoever stole half of the moon !!

(Small Faces - Ogdens Nut Gone Flake)

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 -

Any suggestions ??

Cheers Dave -

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.

Helen

(overtaking)

Tell him that the Warp/hyperdrive will only work on downhill stretch's. The RIGHT foot pedal engages it.......

Brev

(In the land-rover froup, we've had a fred about names...)

On or around Thu, 11 Sep 2003 22:02:15 +0100, "Vam" enlightened us thusly:

excellent! I've crossed this into the shed...

I've no doubt mine has a name, but she hasn't told me yet.

Thank you for the funniest post of the year so far!

Tim Hobbs

'58 Series 2 '77 101FC Ambulance '95 Discovery V8i

My tatty S2A/3 is called "Boom-Bang". Steph's Discovery is called "The Shed".

Cheers Gary