How many of you name your builds?

[JollySipper]

The model I'm working on now will be called the Scarlet Harlot...... I've seen a couple others do this, I'm just curious as to how many of you guys name your models.

It's pretty popular in the 1:1 world, and I think it gives the build more of a theme.......

[Eshaver]

I name my dioramas ; Example , Quality oil 5 , Florence Gilmore

[wayne swayze]

I try to. The first hot rod I saw in my home town was called "Roman Chariot". Then, as years past, a lot of the cars in magazines had "nicknames", so I bègan to think up names for my models. One of them was " Golden Rod", but this was back in '59 . Many of my models were named., but certainly not all of them. I believe they become even more personal if given a name.

[Can-Con]

I've only named one.

The "Crimson Arrow" after the Riviera "Silver Arrow" show cars. But mine is candy red so the "crimson" instead of "Silver".

[afx]

I call them lots of things when I am trying to build them but I don't think that is what your asking. 

[DumpyDan]

I call them lots of things when I am trying to build them but I don't think that is what your asking. 

LOL Agreed

[Don Sikora II]

I've named a few. The black roadster I call the Drag Deuce. The IMSA-style Monza is the Donza and has that on the license plate. Don't remember how it came to be named that, but it stuck.

[KWT]

I call them lots of things when I am trying to build them but I don't think that is what your asking. 

ditto...

I have only honestly named one. Called it The Black Pearl

 

[Snake45]

Not generally, but once in a while I do. I've been working on one off and on I call The Texas Sniper. It's all done in shade of gray and black, and on the front seat will be a photo-reduced 1966 Life magazine with that title on the cover.

[Eshaver]

Don, your 1932 roadster just screams KWELLNESS!!!!!!

[slusher]

I name many of mine and the name is on the license plate. 

[JollySipper]

I name many of mine and the name is on the license plate. 

Hey, Carl..... Do you make your own plates? That's something I would like to be able to do.

[Jon Haigwood]

I don't name my models, only my 1:1 vehicles. Fleetwood motorhome named it "Mac", white Dodge 1500 named "Moby White" and the wifes van is called the "Grannymobile"

[crazyjim]

I used to name every build and then went to every once in a while.  I should start again because I usually make a small billboard listing the modifications made to the vehicle.  Like the 1:1 show cars have.

[Tom Geiger]

I don't  name my builds as a rule, but somethings just happen...

Miss Led

Red Rum

 

Ersatz....   because...

Note that this one really upset some traditionalists back when I built it 25 years ago!

The Beverly Hills Hornet

Because it's a mash up of the Green Hornet kit and the Beverly Hillbillies truck.

That's everything that I've named...  which reminds me that my cousin once had a pet named "Dam Cat"

[Bernard Kron]

It don't always name them but I have quite often because I do so much work with custom decals. In those cases the name often appears on the cars. In other cases they've been named after cars that inspired them or just descriptive of a series I've built. Some examples:

The Silver Slipper:

 

 

The Terrible Topolino

The Therapy Roadster (a quick build to get me started again)

A couple of Deuce LoBoys:

Too Low

And TooLo-2

The Golden Chariot Tribute

 

[dptydawg]

Like Ellen, I name all my dioramas. But there won't  be anymore pics thanks to the greedy clowns a PB

Carl

[samdiego]

Usually referred to as the "mess" on the bench

 

Edited July 25, 2017 by samdiego

[slusher]

Hey, Carl..... Do you make your own plates? That's something I would like to be able to do.

Yes, Acme plate maker on line that so many of us use.

 

[THarrison351]

nope

[retired & glad]

 

That's everything that I've named...  which reminds me that my cousin once had a pet named "Dam Cat"

Tom I once had a cat and her name was DAMMIT. Name fit her very well.

Richard

[russosborne]

All of mine end up with the same name. The POS.

Never got into naming things. For real cars, I just say " the Ranchero" or "the Subaru" if I have to tell my wife which car we are taking. Animals, yes, but they aren't things.

Russ

[Nova-ss]

I do sometimes, but more then names...is the story I've made of why I'm building it.I don'type it up..just make it up before and as its being built..take care all..Chris