Author Topic: Have you named your car? (Read 38108 times)

Mark280SL · « **Reply #50 on:** May 06, 2008, 14:56:29 »

I wasn't even thinking about giving my car a name but reading some of these has kind of inspired me so I've decided on "Inga"

Inga was a tall, buxom, long blonde haired woman of German ancestry I worked with years ago. Just a stunning woman to look at and a nice person to boot, smart as a whip too.

I Don't know whatever happened to Inga or where she is now, she left the company and disappeared in the fog of time but she was a knockout and a great memory. She would match perfectly with my car!

Mark
1970 280 SL Ivory/Cognac

TFM · « **Reply #51 on:** May 06, 2008, 15:56:15 »

"SALLY"

If you have seen the movie cars and remember the color of the charming female star of the movie, you know why ... (never mind that it was a 911 in Cars)

1969 280SL - China Blue/Cream

Bob G ✝︎ · « **Reply #52 on:** May 07, 2008, 13:28:05 »

"Hensley", she is a blond girl paint code 158 white grey...that explains the black top and interior. Yes, "Hensley", very European sounding. Quick frankly she gets treated like a princess.

Bob Geco

Cees Klumper · « **Reply #53 on:** March 10, 2009, 22:52:04 »

Here's a recap of the names given to Pagodas by forum members (in case you were wondering). My personal favorite top-3 starts off the list:

Carling
El Rojito
The Red Rocket

Audrey
Snowy
Olga
Benzino
Fraulein
Guzzi
Pago
Hobel
The Ol' Lady
Benz 64
Elle
Fraulein Gisselle
Pickles
Kinderwagon
The Benz
The Classic
Money Pit
Li'l Red Car
The Kiddy Car
Maude
Geezer Toy
Elga
The Magnet
Teuer
The Buckeye Benz
Hensley
Sally
Inga
Sloan
Ursula
Leopold
Mollie Merc

and, my car's name, The White Mercedes

Seems like gender-specific names are more 'she' than 'he' - so it's a girl after all ...

France · « **Reply #54 on:** March 11, 2009, 08:31:18 »

Wow, Cees...I'm honored. Carling simply named herself; she is a darling and the "ling" ending makes her a small darling. Looking forward to driving her in April!

paults1 · « **Reply #55 on:** March 11, 2009, 23:30:27 »

"Hansoff" as in hands off!!!
Paul, '63 230SL

zoegrlh · « **Reply #56 on:** March 12, 2009, 00:03:07 »

Yes, I named mine years ago "BCW", it's short for Booze and Cheap Women. If I was not spending my money on the 280SL, then I would be spending my money on booze and cheap women. My wife enjoys the idea that I only spend my money on the car.
Bob
P.S. I do spend money on my wife, and she doesn't come cheap!

lurtch · « **Reply #57 on:** March 12, 2009, 04:02:33 »

I refer to mine by what it is embossed on its license plate - - - " ICON 66 "

Best Regards to all PagodaMen, Larry in CA

rob walker · « **Reply #58 on:** March 12, 2009, 09:43:06 »

Guess I should add mine here also.
She is called "Silke" a good German fraulein name and I think quite appropriate for an SL.

hill · « **Reply #59 on:** March 12, 2009, 18:44:37 »

Jezebel

She makes me do things

jameshoward · « **Reply #60 on:** March 12, 2009, 19:04:42 »

Holly.

From Holly Golightly (Travelling) and therefore presumably related to Audrey who comes in 4th on Cees' list.

forrestjordan · « **Reply #61 on:** March 17, 2009, 00:12:11 »

Without really being official, I probably have named it "Damn it!"

However, my wife calls it "The funny car."

Jkalplus1 · « **Reply #62 on:** September 07, 2012, 14:02:17 »

At car meets and cruise nights, women often call my car "cute". However, when I read Pagoda literature from the 60s, it was supposed to be a masculine car, and I agree with that. So we (my wife and I) have been trying to find a masculine name to de-cute-ize the car and empower it with its rightful maleness.

So far, "Otto" is sticking. What makes it funny for us is that though it is a male German name, it is also a play on words in my language for "car".
J

enochbell · « **Reply #63 on:** September 07, 2012, 17:10:13 »

With apologies to Cees, and with no intent to infringe on copyright, ours is simply

"The White Car"

to distinguish it from my daily driver E500 which is known as

"The Silver Car"

Pretty creative, huh?

Jonny B · « **Reply #64 on:** September 07, 2012, 18:01:26 »

Interesting to have this thread pop up. I had not named a car before, but when I got the 280 SL last year, from the person who owned it for ~40 years, it was christened "Bob" after him. My 250 SL has started to acquire the name "Red" (after almost ten years in my stewardship)- very original thinking on that one, eh?

Cees Klumper · « **Reply #65 on:** September 08, 2012, 06:51:01 »

Quote from: Jkalplus1 on September 07, 2012, 14:02:17

... we (my wife and I) have been trying to find a masculine name to de-cute-ize the car and empower it with its rightful maleness. So far, "Otto" is sticking. What makes it funny for us is that though it is a male German name, it is also a play on words in my language for "car".
J

Why not call the car "Arnold" then. Pronounced right (with the Austrian inflection I mean) that should make it masculin (unless followed by "Auw! Paper cut!) ( for fans of the Hans und Franz scetches on Saturday Night Live which was of course a persiflage of Arnie).

Jkalplus1 · « **Reply #66 on:** September 08, 2012, 13:39:05 »

Arnold? Maybe a Unimog I would call Arnold. Or at least something bigger than a SL...It is a *sigh* cute car by today's standards. But at least it is not Mini Cooper cute. I guess in the maleness in 60s european cars had everything to do with being small, nimble, low on the ground, p/w ratio and such. Now, every other guy drives a pickup truck. Not 1 in 10 use the bed of their pickup trucks at all. All claim "it's a practical, useful vehicule". I agree with them: it is as practical and useful as owning a 60s SL Mercedes...

mdsalemi · « **Reply #67 on:** September 08, 2012, 14:14:35 »

Interesting that this thread is 8 years old. Some posts from people long gone from this forum...PaddyCrow, for example, who was local here in Michigan but we never chanced to meet.

Great story about car naming from BOB GOODMAN of Washington in Pagoda Style. Interesting names and stories behind them.

BTW our nav systems in the daily drivers are all named "Michelle". The COMAND-NAVI in my aunt's SLK350 is "Brunhilda".

Wolfmann · « **Reply #68 on:** September 17, 2012, 09:33:16 »

Mine is called Marilyn after Ms Monroe. Pale and beautuful...

Ulf · « **Reply #69 on:** September 17, 2012, 12:43:22 »

Quote from: n/a on May 10, 2004, 05:27:49

"Maude" 1965 230 SL

I spent the first 17 years of my life on Prince Edward Island, Canada.

PEI is the home to Lucy Maude (Maud) Montgomery, the world famous children's story teller. My mother's name was Dolarena Maude and my grandmother's name was Louisa Maude. So it was so fitting that I call this fine Mercedes convertible "Maude"

Rupert

Funny, my car is also called Maude after a posh, but slightly fragile character from a 70's Danish sitcom - she had the tendency to go "lie down" every time something difficult was demanded of her...hence the name :-)

Ulf

Run MBC · « **Reply #70 on:** September 20, 2012, 23:08:47 »

Her name varies, depending on if I'm out enjoying a ride, or if the wrench just slipped off a bolt and my knuckles smashed into sharp metal edges...

Sam SL · « **Reply #71 on:** September 26, 2012, 00:04:29 »

Known as the Green Queen in my circles.

Peter van Es · « **Reply #72 on:** September 26, 2012, 06:47:48 »

Very nice!

mtmilam · « **Reply #73 on:** September 28, 2012, 17:07:42 »

My. Daughter named her's...SADIE...as in Mer-"Cedes"

steves sl · « **Reply #74 on:** October 12, 2012, 01:36:03 »

I have name mine ALter Madchen, i think it's German for OLd Girl. Perhaps our German Members can tell me if that's correct.

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Author Topic: Have you named your car? (Read 38108 times)

TFM

Bob G ✝︎

rob walker

hill

forrestjordan

Jkalplus1

enochbell

Jkalplus1

Wolfmann

Run MBC

mtmilam