Morris Minor Owners Club

wiglaf wrote:All my friends have bikes with names... so my saloon is "Sleipnir" after Odinn's horse (which had twice the usual number of legs)

I like that!

Back in the 60's my dad had a morris called elsie, LC on no plate. Hes a total misery but even he had a name for his car!!

mines called a mess

64 traveller called ??? .bought on ebay.after 8h ship,11h national express and 1h train :wonder.little breakfast and comeback.
HAPPYYYY
.then rain ,a big rain ,english big rain.aye aye ,water out and in.
then no windscreen wiper,no trafficators ...
drive nose behind windscreen and left drive.it was too.
400km ?? night no lamps .
cool, keep quiet.
stop just in front of lodge,innkeeper'sLodge.a palace
unforgetable evening and night
next day: sunrise ... 2 h and rain ,wind ,storm and seasick on ferry....
her name is miss Folly

Where in England did you buy the car? it sounds like you had quite a journey to get home, but you made it! How long have you had it?

west yorkshire

Quite a journey then?!

bought it october 2006 at Keighley.st malo -porthmouth by ferry.porthmouth-leeds by bus and leeds-keighley by train.the keeper was there.Tea,toast ....and back 1pm.lodge near Birmingham .and Plymouth next day evening .tired but enjoy to be in ferry and "revoir la France"

My Van's called Albert coz it's old.

mine is called "pain in the DONT SWEAR OR YOU WILL BE BANNED" on many occasions, but is nick named "miss marple on steriods".

Traveller is called "Ricky" because the numberplate contains the letters RK.

Project convertible is called "Dibble" by the previous owner because number plate contains DB.

4-door in front garden is called "Madelaine" because a previous
owner named it and painted the name on the bootlid.

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mine is called "pain in the DONT SWEAR OR YOU WILL BE BANNED" on many occasions, but is nick named "miss marple on steriods".

I put ****. I thought **** was an impolite word for a part of the anatomy, not a swear word.

I still call it that anyway regularly.



Thank you for the explanation, though I'm sure most of us knew what you'd put. The swear filter is there to comply with the wishes of the club's committee, and finding ways around it is pretty unhelpful, frankly
Andrew

just for those who spot this later on, in my second post i did not put the full word, I used a ? in it, I did not repeat it in full like I used it the first time. I will not use that word on here again but I stand by my comment that this word is impolite rather than swearing. I personally don't swear much but I do use that word occasionally. Often about that car.

I want to point that out because anybody reading this part of this thread will see the 1st and 2nd alteration and think I put it again in full, and I didn't.

2nd post was an explanation rather than trying to be clever but it was obviously taken as the latter.

Sorry, but substituting a letter in a word that isn't permitted merely makes it plain what you wrote, rather than being helpful. I don't like the filter any more than you do, but it's there for a reason, I'm afraid.

Hi All,
By way of introduction my name's Mick, I live in Burton on Trent, UK and I've just bought my first Minor: a '65 Tourer/Convertible in Smoke Grey.

Well I thought about calling mine Johnny (geddit?) but the wife doesn't like it . Sooo..... I'm open to suggestions, his/her initials are FYC ***C. Any ideas?

Cheers,
Mick

PS Note to self: must change those awful number plates

Hi Mick
Very pretty car
Why not Sissi (..c..c plates)
Empress of Austria and wellknowned movie with Romy Schneider in sixties years.
But your wife perhaps will be "jalouse" when you will say:I go a ride with Sissi !! and prefer now Johnny ....
Dan

Hi Mick

That number plate looks familiar, Was recently looking for a Tourer myself so I msut have seen it for sale too.

Very envious btw...

Well I thought about calling mine Johnny (geddit?)

No afraid not.
Well FYC is short for Fine Young Cannibals, hang on is that the Johnny link.

Kevin wrote:

Well I thought about calling mine Johnny (geddit?)

No afraid not.
Well FYC is short for Fine Young Cannibals, hang on is that the Johnny link.

Nooo, Johnny Morris; the wonderful chap that used to put voices to the zoo animals in 'Animal Magic' and 'Tales of The Riverbank'
Ahh, fond childhood memories!
Mick
P.S. Thank you for the suggestion and the compliments


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Mine's 'Phyllis' christened after the character in The Railway Children.

That, and the name just seems to fit.