I have a chili rec mini s with black stripes convertible. Need help with a name.

 

MINI In Black. We ordered with out seeing astro black on anything but the web page. Then later that night MIB was on HBO. The Xenons reminded me of some king of MIB weapon. MINI in Black it was. SO MUCH different in the daylight.

 

That was the name of my 03 MCS and for the same reason.

I've yet to name my 06 MCS. No hurry. One of these days a name will come to mind.

 

I decided to call my MINI "Lil' Vic" - it fits.

 

I was going to call it GALIJAFA (get a life. its just a freaking automobile). Then after driving it for a few weeks, the permanent plates arrived. The last 3 characters were "DXY". So the name changed to Dixie.

 

APRIL

Met my now wife on April 1st and ordered my '05 MCS on April 1st three years later. Two VERY significant days for me/us. The name fits!

Which reminds me, I never had a name for any of my previous six vehicles except maybe "that piece of sh**," lol... just kidding.

 

Before my Cooper S I had two cars, a 99 MCoupe (Little Boy) and an 84 Suburban Diesel (Big Boy). When I bought my 05 Cooper S to replace the Suburban, the dilemma came up as to whether the MINI should be called Big Boy or Little Boy 2. But in the end I refer to the MINI mostly as MOSKITO just like the tag says. A tiny insect with a big sting.


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I've never named my cars, before. The previous owner even gave a gender to mine. I'll stick with gender. Thinking of Swifty, mostly because I'm "swift move bone-head."

 

 

When I ordered the car, I thought about how "stealthy" I wanted the car to be and being a fan of all things Sci-Fi, I thought "Darth Cooper" was perfect.

 

my mother named the car "speedy".

 

I didn't name my first 3 cars. But that was before I got the Batmini.

 

I/we don't name our "normal" cars, but all of our quirky cars have named themselves.

The Mini is Lilly - (for lilliputians.... )

Previous quirky vehicles:

1966 Oldsmobile Super 88 - Old Bile (the smo from oldsmobile was missing)
1968 Datsun pickup - Bea (she was old and gray)
1970 Triumph GT6+ - Precious
1959 Bel Air - Ethel
1951 Ford Custom - Lucy
1960 KG Conv. - PITA (pain in the ...)

 

Darth_Cooper... Can I come to the dark side? I like cookies!

(oh wait... im on my powerbook now, im already there... silly me )

 

Before I got my MINI, I had never named a car either, but I knew that my MINI would be unlike any other car I'd ever had so he got a name...Bruno b/c he has a little man complex and needs to have one of those macho names to keep the image up

 

rock on! I am on powerbook too!

 

Names are usually a bone of contention around here. Typically our cars are named after their color, like Blacky and Whitey the Wicked Weasel or, after my son became fond of Harry Potter, characters from that series. Dumbledoor (F250) and Hermione (944 S2). Elford breaks with this tradition and is named after one of my racing heroes Vic Elford, notable for piloting both Porsches and Mini Coopers.

 

So, bad idea?

 

My LY MCSC's name is "Banana Wind" .... First, it's yellow, so that's where Banana comes from. Second, its a convertible, so that's where the Wind comes from. And third, Banana Wind is the name of a CD by Jimmy Buffett, which I'm a huge fan of (yes, I'm a Parrott Head).

License Plate: BNNAWND

 

"Butch" Long story...

 

I may have settled on "Monty", short for Montague (my wife's Brit boss's middle name), since it is British and evokes Monte as in Carlo (famous races won by Minis in the 60's).

 

Just recently watched a Pink Panther movie so plan on calling the mini "Cato" when it arrives.

 

I kept looking at my MCS and thinking... black, shiny, evil... and something about shape of the front, not sure exactly what... and I kept thinking Darth Vader - so MinVader was born!

 

Flamin' Fanny-05 MCS......

or if you're bilingual....


Puta del Fuego

I blame the wife

 

Mine ended up with "Little 95" after what I was called as a kid from my father's badge number in the Minnesota State Patrol. He joined in 1942 retired in 1967 and passed away in 2004, just shy of 91 years old. I retired after 20 years from USMC in 1997 and had kicked around a lot of USMC related names but made it more personal in the end.