Ferrari Mailing List: Re: No Longer Looking to Buy a Ferrari.... now naming cars....

[Gavin (gavinnz]

My RR is called "The Royce"... as he was the engineer, not Rolls who was 
just un upper-class playboy...
and my GTB seems to have taken on the name "The Red car" which sounds a lot 
less pretentious in public:)

Gavin
New Zealand
RR  "The Royce"
GHB "The Red car"
'15 Fiat "The boatcar"
'15 ALF "?"

> In the Rolls club, I know a lot of folks who actually name their cars.
> These cars often have more interesting pedigrees than an 80s Ferrari,
> for instance they are coachbuilt cars built precisely to order due to
> the whims of some weird rich guy.  Some people name their cars after
> the original owner.  My car (a Phantom-III) is named "The Vantom"
> because that's what my kids called it when they were younger, I mean
> it's a limo, but to them it's like a big van (we have taken the family
> camping with it multiple times), so when they hear 'Phantom' they must
> have thought we were calling it 'Vantom,' so therefore that's its
> name!
>
> -matt
> '85 308
> '39 P-III
>
> On 1/8/08, Rick Lindsay <rolindsay [at] yahoo.com> wrote:
> > In these notes, the '81 GTSi is repeatedly referred to
> > as 'she'.  I have never done this, not to say that
> > doing so is wrong, but is this typical?  Do you guys
> > anthropomorphize your cars as well?