<VV> re Car names and Fuzzy Dice

[Russ Moorhouse]

I'm with you on most of what you said.

My Buick is the "CAR"  and my Silverado is the "TRUCK", but my Corvair is 
"STINKY" a moniker that my wife dubbed it with, the first time she went out 
in the garage and smelled the gas fumes after it had been out for an initial 
run.  The name just stuck.  It also was the name  that applied to out black 
lab numerous times.

I did have an old Ford pick-up that earned the name "OLD BLUE".  It was old 
('69), it was a faded blue, but you could depend on it to do whatever you 
needed it to do and it never let me down.  If my '05 Silverado lasts as long 
and is as dependable as that old Ford was, then in time it will be "Old Blue 
II" since it's dark blue.

As for fuzzy dice, that was more of a 50's thing, although JC Whitney pushed 
it for a long time, along with the latest customizing craze, pom-poms for 
your interior.  I never knew anyone who went for the pom-poms, but I do 
remember some who still had dice in the 60's, but not many.  In the area I 
grew up, in the 60's the thing to hang on your review mirror was the tassel 
from your graduation hat, which is something I've been looking for to hang 
in Stinky.  Anybody have a dark blue tassel with the year '63 they want to 
sell?

Russ Moorhouse
'65 Corsa coupe 140 HP
Group Corvair Member
Corsa Member
Kent Island, MD

-------original message-----

From: <mhicks130 at cox.net>
Subject: <VV> car names and fuzzy dice

OK, I don't want to start no trouble here but I've two questions for you car 
people.

1)  Why do people name their cars?  I know you've got to call them something 
but what's up with the fancy names?  My cars are called: "the Odyssey", "the 
Passat", "the Corvair" and "the Rampside".  Not creative but you know which 
one I'm talking about.

2) What's up with the fuzzy dice?  I begged the seller to take the ones on 
mine back when I bought it.  I don't get the fuzzy dice.

Now these two questions may make some of you think I'm not a real car guy 
but I really am.  Really.  I love my cars.  I just don't get these two 
things.  It's been eating at me for some time now.  I feel better for 
getting it off my chest.

OK, flame on!!!

mike