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Name: the mini

It distinguishes it from the other two vehicles in the driveway named the audi and the truck.

 

This, mostly original, little car has a lengthy history which began in January of 1970. After a brief Cameo return to the San Francisco dealership in 1997, during their 50 year anniversary celebration, it seems as though it suffered a little mechanical damage and engine compartment fire during a late night spin through the City...

Subsequently, yet begrudgingly, it was purchased back from the then current owner and taken to Huffaker Engineering for a bit of freshening, so to speak. As such, and being a former career firefighter, I thought it fitting to call it "The Phenix", having been given new life - rising again from the ashes, as the legend says...

 

My Countryman has all-wheel drive. Mini's moniker of "All4" is top shelf and easily trumps VW's "4motion," Mercedes' "4matic" and BMW's own "xDrive." I've always liked Alexandre Dumas' line from the Three Musketeers, "All for one, one for all." It just works for me and my Mini. So her name (plate) is "ONE 4 ALL."

 

Sweetie and Ditto

"Sweetie" was custom-ordered. She had everything, and I loved her. When she was only 3 months old, and I was just getting to know her well, we were sitting at a stop light and a drunk driver crashed into us from behind in a Dodge Dually going 82 miles per hour. He never hit his brakes. It was scary, but Sweetie did a miraculous job of protecting my daughter and me.

We survived, but Sweetie died.

When the new car arrived a few months later, she was an exact duplicate of Sweetie. I was happy and sad all at the same time. My husband came up with the name "Ditto", and as soon as I heard that name, I knew that was it!!! It's a different car, but her name honors Sweetie, and the good job she did for my daughter and me.

 

My Mini got her name from the magnificent way she tried to self destruct. Whilst driving home one day in the Mini I came up to a stop light and she puttered out. I tried to restart her but nothing happened. That's when someone in a car behind me shouted that there were sparks erupting from under the car. Then smoke started leaking into the cabin. I grabbed my fire extinguisher (it's an original so it's needed) and hopped out. Luckily there was no fire. Found out the main battery lead had come out of it's clips, rested on the LCB (header) and melted the insulation causing the light show and burning up the battery. Her name is now Sparks.

Shawn

 

Silverback...a two pronged name 1. it's a silver hatchback, 2. because it is driven by an old large gorilla - me:biggrin5:

 

I usually don't name vehicles but, I started referring to my MINI as "The MINI Pooper".

I even altered the Cooper emblem on the barn door to reflect it.



Dave

 

When I was ordering my car, I took an image of a Pepper White MINI with a white roof and used Photoshop to 'paint' the arches.

When I posted the resulting pic to my local board, DickDavid made a comment that it looked very 'stormtrooper'. The father of all stormtroopers is Jango Fett, and the name of 'Jango' seemed to stick.

 

:cornut: 'Mini' Margi was named after my lovely wife Lady Margi. When I first named her after my wife, my wife says," So who am I, Big Margi?" One of those questions that almost any answer is WRONG. But thinking quickly I said,"Why no, you're 'Lady' Margi."

Jason

 

RYU is for many reasons.....

First: Ryu means dragon in Japanese.
1. He's green, so are dragons.
2. Hello Kitty is Japanese, so I thought she'd like a friend :biggrin5:
3. It's the year of the dragon, and I just got him.
4. I have a dragon tattoo.
5. it's MOTD 10 this year, and I associate MINIs with the dragon

 

Sprout!

I'd never named a car before, but since it appears to be the done thing with Minis, I started thinking about it. (Sprout is my first Mini adventure.) My son suggested Winston, but that didn't feel quite right. Then I remembered the old Jolly Green Giant frozen veggie ads. Sprout is little, green, cute, and spunky, just like the Giant's side-kick. :biggrin5:

 

Old enough to know who these charactors are?

 

My MINI is named Tickled Pink. I had her custom painted Tickled Pink. Her plate says Tickled. And I am Tickled Pink to have her. Need I say more?

 

Manny - is named in honor and memory of a Great Friend "Manny" Lopez who was a Mini owner and last year passed away - I just wanted to always be able to take him for a ride and put a smile on his face - like he did for everyone else ...RIP Manny

 

Marrons are the worlds largest crawfish and they are BLUE and mean as hell. I am a chef and I had the chance to cook up these little beauties when I worked at Victoria & Albert's At Walt Disney World. Mean blue crawfish=mean blue roadster.

 

That is perfect, on at least 2 levels!

You will be throwing Money at your MINI and it will be more than a "Penny".

Second is "Shaken not stirred", which also fits a MINI:biggrin5:

 

My Mini's name

I named my clubman S BLAZE after an American Gladiatior (anyone remember that show?).

She was small and tough but you couldn't take it too seriously!