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Anyone still giving a name to your car, and what is it? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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My blue civic back in 2005 was nicknamed cobalt. "You can take cobalt to pick dad up at the airport". Something I had picked up from Gone in 60 seconds that I found cool (naming cars, not cobalt)

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[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

My first car was a green buick lasabre that I got from a relative. It was held together by duct tape and redneck engineering, and wasn't even supposed to make it through high school. As a condition for receiving the car, I had to continue calling it the green hornet. Ever since, my cars have been named after a famous movie vehicle. My current car is a blue civic, so naturally I had to name it the bluesmobile