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Subject:Re: Vehicle Names
From:Max Wellhouse
Date:Wed, 1 Oct 2008 22:22:10 -0500

Guilty as Charged!!

My Vanagon is  the Millennium Falcon III , my 79  was II and my 1971
was simply,  The Millennium Falcon  ...and as Hans Solo said, "It
ain't pretty, but it gets me there."

I had a name plate for the 71, transferred it to the 79  and didn't
other with the Vanagon.  Iowa has plates up front so that kinda killed that.

DM&FS

   PM 10/1/2008, Jeff wrote:
>As I read the posts on this list, I'm more than a little surprised how many
>people have names for their vehicles.  Do people really refer to your
>vehicles by name?  For instance, do you say things like: "Let's take Pinky
>to the hardware store"?
>
>It just seems kind of odd to me.  I've been in the VW scene since the 70's
>and I can't remember anyone referring to the vehicle by name, unless it was
>a derogatory name, like:  "We can take my POS".
>
>I have to admit that I've named a few vehicles... there's the Red Turd, and
>the Blue Turd (see derogatory comment above), but that's about it.  Hell...
>I had a cat for 12 years that I only called Cat.
>
>Just curious...
>
>Cheers,
>
>Jeff
>4 Dokas, 1 Iltis... and none of them have a name.