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Craig
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Job-Rated, I understand calling your car Hot n Bothered and all those other names as it seemed the thing to do at the time. These are all heavily modified cars, you wouldn't call Honky Tonkin' the 57 but that's different than Harry the Humber.
What makes me cringe is the people who advertise there bog standard car for sale as Betty etc. It would put me off buying the car as you know the owners going to bore you with stories of them and Bettys 'funny' journeys to the beach and how they got on so well. |
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Old-Nail
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| Brian M wrote: |
My Amazon was given the perfect name by the manufacturer, and so that is what I call it!
Named after the Greek mythological woman warriors. Seems to me that this sums up the qualities and soul that attracted me to the car.
Now if I had a car that is named after a sleepy but picturesque county in the West Country or one that is named after its engine output (on a good day!) I suppose a pet name might be appropriate!  |
Brian it's interesting that Volvo should chose to interpret Greek mythology as a reference to the Amazon name as there was a previous 'Amazon' car.
The Amazon was a cyclecar produced by Amazon Cars Ltd in Billiter Street, London, EC3, England from 1921 to 1922.
It featured a rear-mounted air cooled twin 6/9 hp Coventry-Victor engine with chain drive to the rear wheels through a three speed and reverse gearbox made by Juckes. To give a conventional appearance the 2 seater car had a dummy radiator at the front. It cost £235.
One wonders about the wisdom of using Greek mythology as an evocation of the vehicles characteristics or prowess, as the Latin translation for Volvo is...'I roll!'   |
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Greeney in France
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talking of car names
the citroen DS was called the shortened version of DEESSE in french it is said as "day es" french for goddess the premium model is called the pallas named after pallas athena the greek goddess of wisdom
the "lesser" models are called ID as for the french it was a "bon idee" said "ee day" for good idea 
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pigtin
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Naming a B29 bomber 'Enola Gay' seemed to assure it's place in history;
but for all the wrong reasons.  |
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Greeney in France
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Do you recall the name of the "other B29"
Also the bombs were named "little boy and fat man"
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Job-Rated
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Greeney in France
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Thats correct lollipop for you
Its often forgotten being overshadowed by EG
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Brian M
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| Old-Nail wrote: | | One wonders about the wisdom of using Greek mythology as an evocation of the vehicles characteristics or prowess, as the Latin translation for Volvo is...'I roll!' |
O-N - but as all Volvo owners know the origins of the company were in the SKF Ball Bearing group where "I roll" would seem to be very appropriate.
To quote from Wikipedia
Volvo means "I roll" in Latin, conjugated from "volvere". The name Volvo was originally registered in May 1911 as a separate company within SKF AB and as a registered trademark with the intention to be used for a special series of ball bearing, but this idea was only used for a short period of time and SKF decided to use "SKF" as the trademark for all its bearing products.
The company AB Volvo had no activities until 10 August, 1926 when the SKF Sales Manager Assar Gabrielsson and Engineer Gustav Larson, after one year of preparations involving the production of ten prototypes, set up the car-manufacturing business Volvo AB within SKF group. Volvo AB was introduced at the Stockholm stock exchange in 1935 and SKF then decided to sell its shares in the company.
So as "I roll" along in my "notably tall, physically strong, strong-willed, lady", I still don't see the need to call the car anything other that the name the manufacturer gave it!
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Greeney in France
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Just as a funny a mum of a girlfriend of mine had a volvo and everytime she mentioned it she would always call it a volva 
It got a bit embarrassing 
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Old-Nail
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I like this historical stuff
Perhaps we should do a thread on the origins of vehicle manufacturers, as the ball bearing reference that Brian mentions is a good bit of background info that may be unknown to many non-Volvo owners (including me).
I'm sure most companies have a pre-automotive history of some kind or other, let's hear them! |
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Rick
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Giggles
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| Greeney in France wrote: | Just as a funny a mum of a girlfriend of mine had a volvo and everytime she mentioned it she would always call it a volva
It got a bit embarrassing |
We've got a friend who does the same. 
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Giggles
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[quote="Craig"]you wouldn't call Honky Tonkin' the 57 but that's different than Harry the Humber.
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I could imagine calling any of our Humbers Harry for some strange reason.
When you mention the name Honky Tonkin', Pie wagon or KoopaK, most people in the hot rodding/ custom car scene know what car you are talking. Was the same when you bought Street Addict, people knew the name.
Sorry to bring up Rods again.
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Rich5ltr
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My wife has an Alfa Romeo Spider which she calls Boris.  |
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Greeney in France
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talking of wives
My wife calls my Renault 3 "Bartolo" don't ask me why, I forgot that one
i don't even think she does?
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