Mr and I are currently waiting for our car to get assembled, and we look forward to it like children before Christmas. Hopefully, it will be ours before then too! It's our first car and we're both very excited about it. We've already named it too. We like to name our stuff haha. It started with our auto-mower, which is called Dandelion, and our car will be named Roach. Ten points to you if you can figure out how we chose those names ;).
Do any of you name your stuff too?
/MrsHjort
Dandelion because it was yellow. Roach because it's black (SAAB?). :) No, I do not name my stuff. :D
ReplyDeleteNope, that's not why :)
DeleteI sometimes sort of name my stuff. With cars, it's usually based on the number plate letters. I actually work in a car rental place, and we name nearly all the vehicles based on their registration plates.
ReplyDeleteAn interesting voyeuristic feel to this with the steering wheel in the foreground. The bright colours on the dash look great together. If you don't have your car yet, then whose is this?
ReplyDeleteWe have named some of our cars based on their license plates too. Well, we have in the past with cars with sentimental value. We travelled around America in a Dodge Ram van that was cream with brown go-faster stripes down its side, and it reminded me of a South African Springbok. It also had poor shock absorbers, so it bounced like a springbok too. We called it Bokkie or Bokster. Bokkie was a boy-van.
Then we had a Kombi that we travelled around Europe in, and her registration was HHU999N. We started with her being a boy called Atilla the Hun, but she was really not very tough, not very fast and not very boyish, so we decided we must have got her gender wrong, and she became Hunny Bunny.
None of our other cars have been of character to deserve such names. Although we did have a Ducati motorbike for a while that had a registration with TIB in it, so we called her The Italian Bitch, cos she was a bit temperamental.
Nope, naturally it's not our car in the shot. It's actually my father-in-law's car. He's very nice and sometimes drives us to work - we all work in the same office.
DeleteBokkie, Hunny Bunny and The Itialian Bitch! Very funny, thanks for sharing :)
And no, the name of our future car has nothing to do with the license plate :)
The story explains it all -- you took the shot from the right rear seat :) And no, I don't name my cars -- I call them what the manufacturer called them :) Which makes me quite clueless about the name you chose for your car.
ReplyDeleteAlmost correct, I was in the middle back seat ;)
DeleteSee you are safe here, since if that were mph you would be just toodling along, perhaps it is good that we do not know if you were speeding or not :) ...aha and reading the story at least settles that you were not driving and photographing...eeeekkk
ReplyDeleteHaha! I never even thought of that :)
DeleteNice clean car shot, like in, the car looks so clean and new.
ReplyDeleteRoach because it's a VW beetle... but a bit flatter and faster?
ReplyDeleteMy partner's old car what called "W-pot" because of the numberplate.. His one now is "C apostrophe D". He's not that imaginative with names.
I've never had a car but if I did it would definitely have a name.
I love the colours in this, and the softness of the image. It could have been so harsh with that bright light, and I'm impressed you managed to avoid that.
Nope, it's not that either. The name has nothing to do with that brand of the car.
DeleteThank you Lou :)
I think you named them after what you are going to kill with them, right? ha! Funny.
ReplyDeleteHahaha! You're just too funny! I'll think of that whenever I'm in the car from now on (it will arrive on Friday, YEY).
DeleteNope, it's not that either.
Okay, I guess I'll reveal the real reason (drum-roll):
The names are characters from books by one of our favorite author Andrzej Sapkowski, and they have also been adapted as computer games. The series I'm referring to is the tale of the Witcher - Geralt of Rivia. Dandelion is his best fiend - a dandy and a bard that always gets in troubble, and Roach is the name of his horse :).
Nice circles and light. I am glad I get to see where your names come from...I would never have guessed it. I have named a couple of cars when the children were small. In NZ it is almost compulsory to have a car :-)
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