What’s in a name….really?

A few years back, I had a pretty, slick, black Ford F150. I named her Lita because she was sleek and sexy and together we were rockin’ it just like the 80s rocker chic, Lita Ford.

These days, just a few years later (a few????!! hahaha) I’m driving another black Ford F150.
This one however, is beginning to show her age…but I still relate in many ways:

Much like myself, she has a slightly slower response time, a little less ‘get up and go’ if you will
While she can still look pretty sleek in the right light, she’s carrying around a few more miles than we’d like to admit….
You will find a few dents and perhaps a bit of rust on her undercarriage, and she definitely consumes much more *ahem* fluids than she should.

Considering all these points, I named her Betty…as in Betty Ford
😊😊

Maybe there really is something in a name!!

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Heartlander · 80-89, M

Never had a truck, but named all all our cars; sometimes renaming them as their character unfolded.

A minivan we called “the happy mobile” because we added a page to its operator manual saying that the vehicle was not to be operated with driver or passengers in a foul mood. To that end, the driver’s checklist had a step for attitude checks.

One Ford product was named “Dangerous” because of a sudden, rapid acceleration quirk. Step on the brake pedal sometimes and the engine would race to 2500 rpm. Push the brake pedal harder and it would race to 5000 rpm. A few months later renamed it “Piece of Shit” when it took a threat of a lawsuit to get Ford to pay attention to me. Ford eventually sent a factory mechanic who fixed the problem within 30 minutes. A few months later renamed it “Piece of Shit” again when sudden overheat became the new threat. We contemplated renaming it “Gone” and to help make that happen the plan was to just make sure that we didn’t lock it when parking and leaving the keys on the driver’s seat. A lawyer neighbor suggested that that plan exposed us to danger once the would be thief discovered the overheat quirk. Eventually that was fixed, and a few months later the dead battery quirk appeared. Or more like a battery killer quirk because a replacement, fully charged battery could find itself fully depleted within 24 hours, sometimes. At that point, all Ford products were called “Never Again”, and what followed was 500,000 miles of pain free Toyotas and Nissans, all called “Whitey” because they were white.