Your Cars' Name?

[daddz]

I like the "sumo" reference for the Z31; my '86 was named by its original owner (a middle aged woman of English extraction) and as such it's called "Lady Clara". I don't much care for it but it is an aging plump and somewhat slow handling car.

The '78 S30 must be named "Godzilla" only because it's fun as hell to drive while playing the Blue Oyster Cult song of the same name:classic: and it's a period song (one that you might have heard while cruising with a cold can of Budweiser in the late '70's--who said DUI?)

The other Z's in the collection haven't earned names just yet--need some additional behind the wheel time to reveal their personalities--kind of like dating women--you don't see all of the flaws the first night out.

check out the cars and give us your opinions:

http://www.240ztt.com/nissan.html

(anything with the name "Rob" is unfortunately mine)

[Zvoiture]

Green Death Machine. Again, coined by my better half within a few momemts of purchase, when it had no lights, no brakes, no seats, no tires.... Oh how far we have come! But the name sticks.

steve

[Caen Fred]

"grenouillette" could be "Frogette" to you. But after the L28 kiss she will become "Snow White".

Hey Sean, will you let me play sometimes with your 'bebete"? ROFL

[Doehring]

Looking at your mails, 2 things are interesting: a) Many names are related to music and some see cars as female, others as male. Is this depending on the language? In the english speaking world you seem to prefer cars as female, here in Germany and surrounding countries we prefer to see a car male if it's powerful. Only "Chicky Micky" cars like some little italian designer spyders (convertibles) are female.

Rolf

[That Ozzy Guy]

I'm from Macedonia and our language dictates (ie, it's not a choice) that cars are female. Everyone I've ever known has also considered cars to be females.

[thefastestz]

I don't have a name for my 240z.

When I talk to it with the accelerator pedal, and a down shift. It ansewers back.

[Doehring]

fstr240Z,

the feed back is what I like, too. Your Z, he gives you the right answer, call him (Termi)"nator" or "stinger"

Rolf

[Alfadog]

Cars, like ships, have been decided to be female. This is all good and fair if you own a Mazda 121, but cars like a Viper or HSV I personally would not call a "she". "He" seems much more appropriate.

Its the same for my Z, but I guess other Z's could be female, depending on how you drive them and how proud (ie loud) it is.

I call cars different sexes depending on its personality.

However in most languages (like George pointed out) the car is female. e.g. in Italian it is 'la macchina'.

[Phacade]

>>>Alphadog wrote: I refer to my Z as a male, because after all it's pretty damn masculine if you ask me. A female name doesn't fit, IMO. >>>

I agree. I have had alot of Z's. Named them all.

First was an '80 280ZX. Named it after the Chinese God of Nine Hells: Yenlowong. After the brakes failed and the car crashed, I suppose in retropect naming a car after this was not such a good idea.

Second Z (bought exactly 3 hours after crashing my first) was a '81 280ZX. Named it SunhouTzu after the Monkey King or the Iron Monkey, a popular Chinese character in mythology. He stormed the gates of hell and tricked the Devil several times. I thought it appropriate. That is until some pregnant woman in a Geo Tracker broadsided me in a construction zone. Yep, she was speeding too. But she cried. And the officer didn't ticket her and refused to acknowledge the construction zone limit. So I got nothing.

Third, Forth, and Fifth Z came as a package at the same time on an estate sale. I got a '77 280Z, '78 208Z, and a '70 240Z. The 240Z was in bad shape but I called it Cujo because it ran decent enough. I ended up selling it for a few hundred to a local kid who didn't realize what a nice car it could be if he had only taken his time with it and took it apart and scraped it shortly later. the '77 was named Gloria, due to its gold color and gawdy rims. I drive her for awhile but I suspected frame damage due to the fact I was buying used tires every other week for it. I sold her to a friend who still has it. The '78 never really ran right. The FI was ripped out and Webber Carbs put in. It smoked and whined alot, hense I named it Andrea after a woman I knew who did the same. I parked it at a junk yard that sold Z's. Got 20 bucks.

Sixth Z was a pleasure. I bought a '73 240Z from a guy in Oklahoma city. Body on the car looked great but the original L24 in it was shot. Hard. I still had my Webber carbs from Andrea so spent an hour putting them on and got it somewhat running and limped it home to Tulsa. Since I still had SunHouTzu sitting in my dirveway, wrecked under a cover, I decided that I since I had gotten rid of the other Z's and it had a L28, might as well kill two birds with one stone. I spent 4 months rebuilding that L28. It looked so sweet when it was done. Got my Z therapy carbs on it and had all the machine work done locally. Dropped the '81 5-speed in it and it looked great! I drove it everyday for 2 years afterwords. Decided to name it Neo. Not original considering the Matrix had just come out but it was cool to me and thus it stuck. Money issues forced me to sell it. Which stunk because it was probably my funnest Z to drive.

Seventh Z, my current Z, is named Miyamoto; a '75 280Z named after the famous Japanese Samauri Miyamoto Mushashi from the book of the five rings. I picked her up from a SWAT team member from Sapulpa. I had originally planned to keep two Z's. Neo for the summer and Miyamoto for the winter. Neo was carbed so ran best during the summer but Miyamoto is FI. Like I said, money issues forced me to get rid of one. I still to this day wonder if I chose the right one. Miyamoto runs and drives very nicely. The guy I got it from had stripped it down and sandblasted it and then rebuilt it and painted it. The engine seemed quite strong and ran great so I never had the heart to rebuild it. Although it does not rev or run quite like Neo did.

This is turning into a book. I'll probably copy this into a post of its own.

[cygnusx1]

Well, my cat's name is MEOW. So I should call my Z......ROAR. Actually I refer to it as "The Z" or "The Z'ster" I dont actually call it anything because I've learned that it dosent actually respond to my calls.

[240znz]

My wife calls it "That rusty old heap of shite that pisses on the garage floor" and "the money pit" and "THAT BLOODY CAR!!" sometimes replacing the first word with a well known f word and "the old banger" (well, she is English!).

Me....I call it "The Zed" and sometimes "The Ratsun"

[symon]

My 260Z is called " El Datsun", the Silvia is " la Silvia" & the Skyline is " Godzila". Too easy !!!!!! At least my future ex wife loves our cars, enjoys them & drives " El Datsun" regularly. " Godzila" frightens the s**t out of her so it´s mine !!!

Symon