Originally Posted by Jabouty
For some reason all of our cars have had a name at one point or another:
72 Roadrunner (first car, restored with my father, retired): Bear
- Original 426 HEMI with six pack holleys. She was name Bear because her maintenance to keep her running well was a "bear" to keep up with.
83 PowerRam 250 3/4 Ton Pickup: Bubba
- Purchased off the floor in 83 for $15,000. Modified the piss out of it over the years and traded it in '98 for Redneck. Got $10,000 in trade value due to it being a rarer model for that year, and the mods I'd done (I actually found a set of 340 HEMI heads and had them cleaned and port matched to the 318 guts of the truck). When I traded her I could drop the clutch in 2nd gear and the truck would hop about 3 inches of the ground before burning the tires and taking off.
95 Plymouth Acclaim (retired): Bitch
- Survived a T-bone accident and kept running for months without a single front panel at all, no hood, bumper, fenders, nothing finally scrapped it. Named due to the inability to kill the car, I couldn't stand this vehicle but couldn't find a reason to scrap it while it was running well. I even emptied the oil and drove her from Seattle to Salt Lake in an attempt to kill the bitch, she would not die.
95 Neon (retired): Redneck
- Was a project car that I bought off the lot in '98, replaced tranny with one that could handle autobahn speeds for extended durations (was living in Germany at the time), replaced cam with a higher duration, rechipped to remove speed limiter so I could actually do 120mph sustained, cut in a moon-roof, replaced trunk lid and doors with power doors from a 99 neon (thus changing the color from red to red with silver doors and trunk lid), then went to repaint it and stripped the roof and did a test paint with the mirage green to red paint to see how it looked (thus changing color now to red with silver doors and trunk lid and mirage roof, ie, redneck'd). When I sold it the engine was pulling 208 horse at the wheels. I sold her and used that money to pay for "The Radio Car".
86 PowerRam 250 Prospector 1/2 Ton Truck (retired): Mickey
- My daughter named it. Short bed prospector in all blue, tinted windows, power everything, the bedliner was color matched to the blue of the truck. Upgraded engine with 340 stock heads, 850 CFM 4-bbl carb and edelbrock high rise intake. Chromed everything I could in the engine compartment and lit everything on the exterior from the running boards to the eyes in the ram ornament. Sold for $7k, no 4wd.
00 Neon (In-repair): Baby
- Wife's car, original engine, 2,000 watts across the entire stereo, dual 12's in the trunk bay, fiberglass liner in the trunk with dynamat, speakers have replaced the spare tire, no other mods from there. Needs windshield, new rims and tires and battery and gasket set (she's been parked for over a year, finally have the funds to get her back in driving condition) and to be registered to be legal.
04 Limited Edition PT. Cruiser: The Radio Car
- My car, daily driver, was named by my son because at the time it was the only car with a working stereo as I was in the process of stripping Baby to bare metal in the passenger compartment and installing her stereo.
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17 Jun 2009, 08:26 pm
Re: What is the name of your PT?
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