Jerry,
I would think that naming anything (kids, cars, boats) is sort of a
personal thing. My wife and I selected the names for our kids and the
dog (a beagle) but we never thought of naming our cars. The beagle was
named "Dusty" because of his grayish speckled nose. We did name our
sailboat, though. "Ookpik" was named after a short-lived Inuit cartoon
owl (boat is yellow, by the way).
Names like "Yellow Peril" or "Yellow Fever" come to mind for your
Moggie.
Chuck Vandergraaf
'52 +4, P.2473/V.345.ME
'85 Chrysler LeBaron Turbo
'86 MR2
Pinawa, Manitoba, R0E 1L0
Canada
vandergraaft@aecl.ca
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>From: Jane McDaid[SMTP:Murphys@ziplink.net]
>Sent: October 14, 1997 7:31 PM
>To: Morgans@Autox.Team.Net
>Subject: Help Name my Morgan
>
>Steve Bauserman wrote about his "Lucy" recently acquiring her name. Chuck
>Harris has waltzing "Matilda", soon to get a new set of autocross dancing
>shoes.
>
>Does your Morgie have a name?
>
>My flaming yellow (middle chrome: you know, like a caution sign) '67 Plus 4
>roadster came to us in'89 after having been sadly mistreated in her 5500
>miles. Beat to S#@t is more like it. Anyway, after I got it running and the
>paint & chrome cleaned up as best I could, I drove it for parts of three
>years, adding another 9K to the odometer. During that time, we had three
>cars in the household- Jessie the Jeep Cherokee, Bessie the Benz wagon, and
>somewhat unfairly, my little Morgie became "Messy" because of her sadly
>scarred paint.
>
>She has now gone through a five year on again, off again wings off respray
>and is once again gloriously yellow, with shiny chrome replacing the more
>badly pitted stuff. We've been having great little trips out leaf peeping
>and just knocking around in the past few weeks. She's running great, thanks
>to the helpful suggestions of many of you morganophiles. The Melvyn Rutter
>stainless exhaust is pretty much carboned up, so that the exhaust is quite
>noticeably when the loud pedal is pressed. Great noise!
>
>I think it's time for a new name. Bessie and jessie are still with us, as
>is Elizabeth, a newer Benz wagon that's much more refined than poor old
>Bessie.
>
>Anybody have any good suggestions?
>
>Regardless, please tell us about your own Morgan's name and how it came to
>be.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Jerry Murphy
>
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