Names for cars

[damont]

It has now been six months to the day since I bought my newest car. Dora Sue has been a very nice ride so far and I intend to keep her in the best of shape as long as I can afford it. So on this date of note, I raise a glass to the named cars in our family, both the departed and the present: Doris, the Whelp, Dusty, Karen, Babe, Jenny Marie, Carmelita/Missy, Horatius, Septimus, Cammy, Vinny, Sheng, Moishe, and Dora Sue.

Yes, I did refer to my cars by name. Sooner or later, all my cars let me know what their names are, if I have them long enough. (This seems to apply to montuos and much of her family as well.) I don't just assign a name, I wait until the universe tells me what the appropriate name is. The cars also have gender, which is often made manifest long before the name. The gender breakdown is close to 50-50 between masculine and feminine, with no neuters so far.

Now I know that in many ways I'm weird, but is this particular weirdness common or uncommon? How many folks who read this have cars with names? Let me know...

Comments

[wanderingpixie.livejournal.com]

We always named cars in my family. I'm not sure it was with the same sense of "it has a name and I should find it" but we did it. (Then again, I tihnk it may have started with my parents first VW rabbit, Peter ^_^)

I dissagree with Shakespeare

[patches023.livejournal.com]

We name many things, cars being just one of them. My cars have been: Hera (yellow diesel rabbit), Benten (red Mazda 323), Ester (blue/gray Suzuki Esteem wagon). Maug currently has Mama Tiger (beige Chevy extended van). Maug names many of his instruments (he writes about this in his introduction). I know I have named other things too, but I forgot what.