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03-27-2008, 02:47 PM | #1 |
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Cool race car names!
We have a thread for witty slogans on race cars, now how about cool race cars names?! Back in the day, every car had a name, and they all meant something...and sometimes they even took a little thought!
You had the "Paddy Wagon", "Red Alert", "Herbie's Hugger", countless cars Novas used "Novacaine"...someone referenced "Makin' Bacon" in another thread! Let's hear 'em...!!
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03-27-2008, 03:11 PM | #2 |
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Re: Cool race car names!
My all time favorite has to be "Grumpy's Toy",,,out here locally, we had Mike Rendell and his Ranchero in gas and altered called "Lil Boss Truck". I know I'm forgetting a lot of the div.6 guys......Danny Durham
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03-27-2008, 03:25 PM | #3 |
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Re: Cool race car names!
There was a group of us at Beaver Springs Dragway called the Looney Tunes Gang...
"Dust Devil" (my '74 Duster bracket car, featuring Taz) "Baaaad Intentions" (Tweety w/ an axe behind his back) And my all-time favorite, Will Leitch's "Ornery Cuss" with Yosemite Sam... There were a lot of great names on bracket cars in the northeast... "Bristol Stomp", "Penny Pincher", "Money for Nothing", "Winner Beater"... Bud McNasby's "Somethin' Else" Omega...
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03-27-2008, 03:30 PM | #4 |
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Re: Cool race car names!
Checkmate !...and Hatari...!
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03-27-2008, 04:14 PM | #5 |
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Re: Cool race car names!
Those were the day's when all the cool car's had names. My dragster is called Loose Cannon(A JUDGE GAVE ME THAT ONE).At Thompson there was two Camaro's owned by a husband and wife called Bewitched and the Warlock.
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03-27-2008, 04:18 PM | #6 |
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Re: Cool race car names!
One of the coolest still races, George Taylor's, .... Alco Hauler.
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03-27-2008, 04:27 PM | #7 |
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Re: Cool race car names!
Mr Warehime,
You have a PM .............Dave,
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Dave, WOW! I didn't know about the private message board. I had 3 messages. These computer things are great.
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Re: Cool race car names!
For what it's worth, I thought "Locomotion" would be cool for my car. I always liked the song, first by Little Eva in '62, Grand Funk RR in '74 and Kylie Minogue in the '80's. One definition I found for the word was "power of movement". Rather appropriate for a race car. So my 2 bracket Challengers and now my IHRA Dart Sport have carried the name.
I didn't know Little Eva lived in Kinston, NC until she passed away just before the last time I raced there in 2003. Also had a dad bring his little girl over in the pits to see tha car at an IHRA national event in Stanton, MI because "Locomotion" was her favorite song in dance class! I won that weekend. But I'll never know if they saw it because it poured rain shortly after the last cars went down and I never saw them again. It wasn't until quite a while after I started using the name that I found out Bob Reed use to have the name on his cars also. A couple of other cars that come to mind are "Time Machine" and the late ET racer Billy Crews from Gainesville had "Cruz Control" on his cars. When I fist saw that as a rookie, I wondered if he was cheating using cruise control! lol
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This is right up my alley! lol I raced from 1972 through 1995 and have seen hundreds of cars with names. Here's a few:
LOOSE CABOOSE DESPERADO THE LIMIT PSYCHOTIC REACTION SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER MOODY BLUES AGGRAVATION RENEGADE HUSTLER FOOLISH PLEASURE WAR HORSE RAT DADDY HAMMERIN' HEMI GOLDEN ROD EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE CUSTER'S LAST STAND TRAC MAN WASTED DAYS & WASTED NIGHTS MOTHER'S WORRY SPIRIT OF 62 HIGH TIMES SKY HIGH WEEKENDER CRACKER JACK PROUD REBEL INCREDIBLE HULK GREEN WEENIE POISON DART BUSTIN OUT CAR WARZ Last edited by MEMORIES; 03-27-2008 at 06:32 PM. |
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