Parnelli Joneser

no official name, but at times its "the Red Menace" or the Panzerscheisswagen. But most often it's just the shark. Long ago before I was aware of the 928/shark connotation, I called my '64 Mercury "The Shark". I still think it fits that car as well as it suits our 928's.

John Struthers

Jonser,
Bene, bene, molto bene!
When I jumped from Honda's to the 16v Suzuki's -750/1100/1150cc E/GS
series the Laverda's were still on my mind.
Do they still make em'?
Had the power not overtaken my logic circuts I would have bought the Red 750
I think they had three models the last year I was looking at them -was one a triple?- When I first saw the 'BIG Laverda twin I thought it was a Honda 350 on steroids.
Never drove one but sitting on that puppy gave me a good feeling.
Seriously when I was eyeballing it the tensioner, cam/point cover, alt cover and I even assumed there was a centrifugal type oil filter on the inside of the lower right case cover. Cylinders and heads looked Honda too down to fin spacing.
I liked it. Of course I like sleepers and cruisers. Lookin' for a used 1200cc Bandit which is Suzuki's version of a Rocket powered sofa.
My other dirty motorcyle secret is:
I used to abuse Japanese Motocross machines. My dirt mounts were 250 and open class 'MAICO's". Don't tell anyone.

TeufelHei

"Inga" after Terry Garr's character in Young Frankenstein. She's at least as fun as a "roll in ze hay."

"Lilu" after Milla Jovovich in The Fifth Element. One bad-*** smokin' red head!

Mongo

Garage-*****..... what? she doesn't get out that often she just ****** around behind the water heater and in front of my mom's ML320 looking all pretty in red every single hour of the day...

CWO4Mann

Yikes! I thought Kryptonite needed some paint!

My Sig . listen to "Jimmy Olsen's Blues" by The Black Crowes. Even us old geezers have fun sometimes.

Cheers,

Dave

heinrich

No names for my cars ... the white 928; the little red 911; the grey 928; the truck, the old truck, the bronco ..... that's about it ... pereviously the 944 and the other 944; the blue 928; and the auto (the diamantblau 928). I am a bit boring in that way

JKelly

"Buddy" - My wife named it. I guess I hang out with it like a buddy...working on it, cleaning it, driving it, reading about it,....enjoying its company.

The 928 does not seem like a "female" gendered vehicle to me. How is it determined?
New poll?! (oh no)

Richard Lang

We name all off our Cars/Trucks:
Brandy, because of her color and she is my favorite
Battle , He was a battle to find problems and he is aggresive.
Goldie, her SUV
Rusty, 81 Toyoto truck ($300 pick-up parts runner)

Beth

Black car is "the Godfather". It looks menacing just sitting there. And if you don't give it the respect it deserves, you will definately pay.

Green car is just "the green car". Hasn't revealed it's name to us yet. . . . . . . I think it's scared of Godfather

bigs

Dave...

Holy Cow! That looks like a small meteor crater on old Kryptonite! Poor thing. And the leaves in the wiper area are a nice touch too! I've got a leaf-collector myself.

And John... I'm not sure myself which gender a 928 ought to be. On the one hand, it's a beefy, aggressive, V-8 powered beast - sort of Porsche's very own muscle car. On the other hand, those curves... that rear end... that thrilling performance... Whoa, somebody slap me!

Sierra Shark

I didn't, but my wife did. "MISTRESS" It's still cheaper than a divorse!!!

Scott Turnbull

Unfortunately, my wife named my first shark, Black 87 street/track car she call "The Black Hole." It has a gravitational pull from which no money can escape!

Since my 89 GT was #1, it was just called, "THE GT."

My white 88 track car is, "Der Yeti." Because, it is a mythical white beast seldom seen (at the track) and known for it's blood curtailing HOWL!!

heinrich

Scott, strange ... my 928 had the same name for my ex .... go figure.

Scott Turnbull

Heinrich -

She knew she was never to use that language within 100 ft of my baby...or she would have been MY ex!

TeufelHei

As for the gender of a car, I have always considered Porsches at large to be somewhat femenine in nature, though some more then others. Not to the point of being efemenate (sp?) mind you, nor girly or anything like that at all.

When a man devotes that much time and money and effort (sometimes blood) to something as fickel, beautiful, alluring, exciting, validating and humiliating as a Porsche 928, it's got to be a woman.

On the other hand, some may well have the genderless (black hole) or fully masculine (DER Yeti, not DIE Yeti) variety. Mine happen to be ladies, or rather one of them is. The other is gonna be more like a leather clad, german dominatrix in jack-boots, you will show her respect or you will be punished!

Not that I'm into that sort of thing...see the boots are like big tires, and she's black, and has leather interior, and is german...oh who am I kidding.