Thread: What's your LR's name?

Actually, we had two Defenders last year - the one we sold was slightly more secondhand that the other one we bought. Consequently the second one was simply referred to as the "New Defender" - If I was into naming cars then I guess we could call it "NewD" or "Newdy" or "Nudist"... you can see where this is headed...

well the old series 2a was called "Moby" 'cos it was white and big and handle like a whale ,so.....
and "Thumper" got its name as that was the sound of the exhaust when i got her ,thump,thump,thump......twas better than some had suggested for her

Every Rangie had a name, I'll start from the begenning-

76 Rangie, I call it the 'money pit', because it had a habbit of having several $1000 plus repairs at the time

84 Rangie was named Exxon. Bloke I used to work with used to reckon my PS leak was worse than the Exxon Valdeiz.

93 Disco had no name. I hated it so much and not worthy of one Also not a Rangie either.

93 Rangie was called 'Aquarangie', which gave me my internet alias as well. The name derived from the colour which was actually Agean Blue plus I drowned it a few times in the first few months of owning it

83 Rangie, I called 'Thomas'. It blew more smoke than Thomas the tank engine whilt it had a valve seal problem, even after it was fixed the name stuck.

87 Rangie I call 'ol bluey'- Seemed like a good name and it was the first one I thought of after a few beers so 'ol bluey it was and still is.

76 Rangie, new project vehicle. I'm calling it 'Project Sahara', because it's sahara dust in colur, pretty bloody simple really.

Trav

Not really into car names, but a few in the past have been given such, both the Transit vans were 'Rex', the ZC Fairlane was Henry, the previous Disco was Rosso (because it was a Rossignol version).

This one is just the Disco. (Party time!)

But the X1/9 is generally referred to as Elvis - which I don't like....

It's had more hits and is as temperamental as the performer.

The AU is 'take the white one'.....

I did have a shaggin wagon (HQ 308 van) when I was a teenager and it was shaggie..... must've been due to the cartoon character of the same name.

A girlfriend referred to the big campervan as 'buttercup' and wrote a love letter about it, hmmmmmmm..............

Mates occasionally called my various Fiats, 'fiascos'.....

I have a little Harley which is the Hog.....

Curiously the thing that sits in the shed and occasionally floats and has vast history is not named....

GQ

ok...my defender is called lurch......take him for a drive and you will know why.....


at work we had a mitsubishi van called regina......one called yass.......a ford van called barney......and a holden combo called dorey......
also once had an old 1968 honda CL175 unregistered bush basher called stanley.......

The new defender 130 is just "Daddy's truck"

My old series IIA was Sir Ralph the rover after the poem...



The Inchcape Rock
(poet: Robert Southey)

No stir in the air, no stir in the sea,
The ship was still as she could be;
Her sails from heaven received no motion;
Her keel was steady in the ocean.

Without either a sign or a sound of their shock,
The waves flow'd over the Inchcape Rock;
So little they rose, so little they fell,
The did not move the Inchcape Bell.

The Abbot of Aberbrothok
Had placed that Bell on the Inchcape Rock;
On a bouy in the storm it floated and swung,
And over the waves its warning rung.

When the rock was hid by the surge's swell,
The mariners heard the warning Bell;
And then they know the perilous Rock,
And blest the Abbot of Aberbrothok.

The Sun in heaven was shining gay;
All things were joyful on that day;
The sea-birds scream'd as the wheel'd round.
And there was joyance in their sound.

The bouy of the Inchcape Bell was seen
A darker speck on the ocean green;
Sir Ralph the Rover walk'd his deck,
And he fix'd his eye on the darker speck.

He felt the cheering power of spring;
It made him whistle, it made him sing;
His heart was mirthful to excess,
But the Rover's mirth was wickedness.

His eye was on the Inchcape float;
Quoth he, "My men, put out the boat,
And row me to the Inchcape Rock,
And I'll plague the Abbot of Aberbrothok."

The boat is lower'd, the boatmen row,
And to the Inchcape Rock they go;
Sir Ralph bent over from the boat,
And he cut the Bell from the Inchcape float.

Down sunk the Bell with a gurgling sound;
The bubbles rose and burst around;
Quoth Sir Ralph, "the next who comes to the Rock
Won't bless the Abbot of Aberbrothok."

Sir Ralph the Rover sail'd away;
He scour'd the seas for many a day;
And now, grown rich with plunder'd store,
He steers his course for Scottland's shore.

So think a haze o'erspreads the sky,
They cannot see the Sun on high;
The wind hath blown a gale all day;
At evening it hath died away.

On the deck the Rover takes his stand;
So dark it is they see no land.
Quoth Sir Ralph, "It will be lighter soon,
For there is the dawn of the rising Moon."

"Canst hear," said one, "the breakers roar?
For methinks we should be near the shore."
"Now where we are I cannot tell,
But I wish I could hear the Inchcape Bell."

They hear no sound; the swell is strong;
Though the wind hath fallen, they drift along,
Till the vessel strikes with a shivering shock-
"O God! It is the Inchcape Rock!"

Sir Ralph the Rover tore his hair;
He curs'd himself in his despair;
The waves rush in on every side;
The ship is sinking beneath the tide.

But, even in his dying fear,
One dreadful sound could the Rover hear-
A sound as if, with the Inchcape Bell,
The fiends below were ringing his knell.

-The End-

Originally Posted by aquarangie

84 Rangie was named Exxon. Bloke I used to work with used to reckon my PS leak was worse than the Exxon Valdeiz.

Absolutely Priceless!

"The Land Rover"

Kids usd to call it diesel when they were young, but now its just "the land rover" after all its just a car - albeit a good one, but still just a car.

Not like the other POS I have to drive, but then the fuel doesn't cost me anything with that one.


Martyn