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Old Nov 25, 2005 | 06:03 PM
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This could sound like a stupid question but why do you call your bird a "she" ?

I would think that any car with more than 300hp has ***** -- so it would be a "he".
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Old Nov 25, 2005 | 09:12 PM
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Pretty much all cars are named after girls. You wanna ride in a dude???

Jazmine's got alittle more than 300hp and she'd take offense to being referred to as masculine. The 93 liked to be beaten, she was a sadistic bitch. The 01 bird was a needy one but she walked the walk when needed...
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Old Nov 25, 2005 | 09:16 PM
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My cars are all male, I call them "he".
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Old Nov 25, 2005 | 09:27 PM
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My cars are gender non specific. The reason being, Big Red seems to be a male sounding name, and because I don't want to be considered homophobic, I chose my own rules and decided I would stay with Big Red and have politicly correct naming rules.
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Old Nov 25, 2005 | 09:43 PM
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Even my cars are females because you treat them right they purr just like a Satisfied woman & if you treat them wrong they turn in to the biggest bytchs around
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Old Nov 25, 2005 | 09:59 PM
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My old thunderbird SC was nicknamed the Whiney Bitch lol. I've always referred to them in the female context... ex: "My other girlfriend"
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Old Nov 26, 2005 | 02:55 AM
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I call mine the fireturd or turd for short. And I was under the impression feces lacked gender.
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Old Nov 26, 2005 | 01:05 PM
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Look at these cars ... the Firebirds, Camaros, Vettes, etc. Look at the body, all those curves, they are sexy like a woman, not a man! (I will say the Firebirds have a bit of a masculine look from the front ... must be the nostrils lol) Just because they have power doesnt mean they are not feminine. As others pointed out, they are prone to hissy fits, temperamental, sometimes needy, sometimes bitchy ... now, I have known some men like that in my time, but not many

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I have to say I think of cars in feminine terms, but the names don't always match. I've only named two of them. My first, an orange 1976 toyota corolla, was named "The Great Pumpkin". My GTO, other than being called "the goat", is also called "Big Bird".
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Old Nov 26, 2005 | 10:52 PM
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All you guys are funny as hell......

I named my Vette "Colette" shortly after I bought her. She has sexy curves, a bad attitude, and my wallet tells me she's high mainenance. And after my headers get put in her, she's gonna be just like a slutty Fran Drescher! Sexy yet loud and obnoxious, high maintenance, yet fast when you want her to be.

Oh yeah, and my wife know's the pecking order too.












her, the car, then me..........
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Old Nov 27, 2005 | 07:30 PM
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Well... not that I want to ride a dude like said here but I'm with Zeke, if my car had to have a gender it would be a "he". It's a MUSCLE car. "Shes" with lots of muscles are Amazons or even worse..... well, you know what.
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Old Nov 29, 2005 | 11:03 AM
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I consider them asexual and refer to all my cars as "it".
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Old Nov 29, 2005 | 11:52 AM
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Mine are pretty much non-gendered... I call the Camaro "The Beast" or "BFG"... or "Money Pit".

Don't know what I'll call the 'Vette...
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Old Nov 29, 2005 | 12:43 PM
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money sponge, roach, formy, the bird, shovel, chebby, rust bucket, fuggin pile of ****, pain in the ***, fastest car on the planet, tire roaster, smellanor, ...... all have applied at one time or another to all my cars, depending on how they ran and my mood at the time.
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Old Nov 29, 2005 | 04:12 PM
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My LT-1 is named Dorothy.
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Old Nov 29, 2005 | 05:26 PM
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Non-gender here. Mine is referred to as either the "SS" or the "Camaro". Giving names to your cars is all right, but I prefer to go by what it is originally called. It is still like a family member though.
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Old Nov 29, 2005 | 05:37 PM
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Becky....

she is a girl coz she is sporty, has style, lots of niiiiice curves....

i named her becky because of all that, plus a hint of white trash. lol
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Old Nov 29, 2005 | 07:12 PM
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the gto or the goat.

but the trans am was "what the **** is wrong with you now?"

long name, but i can't even remember how many times i said it..
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Old Dec 2, 2005 | 12:48 PM
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If it ain't a she, it's a critter, sometimes both.
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Old Dec 2, 2005 | 02:18 PM
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Originally Posted by WS6freak
This could sound like a stupid question but why do you call your bird a "she" ?

I would think that any car with more than 300hp has ***** -- so it would be a "he".
The Chevy II is nicknamed "Butch" - kinda covers both bases

The Vett is called Lucy, as in Lucile Ball - Kind of a high maintainence red head.
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