Nicknames we give to cars/bits of cars

[Risotto]

Charger69RT said:

Not heard this one mentioned yet...

Bonnet Bra



Is that a nickname, insult or a technical term?

I've never really understood these. Presumably they're intended to prevent stone chips, but doesn't the rain wash grit and dirt under the trailing edge and trap it underneath where it just accumulates and causes abraision/corrosion?

[Charger69RT]

Could I please just clarify, that Corsa isn't mine!

[Scooby P1]

Nardiola said:

Two BarryBoys related names that stuck at the time:


Chavalier




Gashtra

Very good!

[Levin]

Credit for 'Chavalier' must also be given to Goldie Looking Chain, the Welsh rap group.



Admittedly they wrote it off in a very short period of time around 2005. J287 EAL, if you found yourself particularly curious about the matter.

Another one Barry Boys coined for the Astra was simply 'Ashtray'.

[Jex]

Emanresu said:

Packrat said:

Honda Civic .spaceship
Robin reliant .. plastic pig

RELIANT ROBIN!!!!!

You don't say Focus Ford or Vectra Vauxhall so why say Robin Reliant?

E-type Jaguar?

[lucido grigio]

Just mentioned this in the gauges thread.

Banana pod,name for the gauges in the centre of an Escort Cosworth dash,due to the curvey trim next to it.

[aka_kerrly]

Levin said:

Another one Barry Boys coined for the Astra was simply 'Ashtray'.

Ah Barry Boys, one of if not the saddest of all car forums I have ever seen. Populated predominantly by people who take pleasure in being vile about other peoples cars.
Then you look at the "members cars" section an find the most depressing selection of cars going.

[Jex]

Risotto said:

Charger69RT said:

Not heard this one mentioned yet...

Bonnet Bra



Is that a nickname, insult or a technical term?

I've never really understood these. Presumably they're intended to prevent stone chips, but doesn't the rain wash grit and dirt under the trailing edge and trap it underneath where it just accumulates and causes abraision/corrosion?

I think they originated in the US to protect the car from the corrosive body fluids of insects, particularly love bugs (not VW Beetles) in Florida in the mating season
http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/autos/protec...

[Agent XXX]

Pile of s**t - Applies to BMWs

[arjay]

My new (to me anyway) Lotus Exige has not yet arrived, but has already been nicknamed Electra. Why? Well the last time I had a Lotus was in 1975 - guess what that was called.? Wow you guys are quick...

New:


Old:

[Jex]

Any Mazda = light bulb

[KingAdam]

Egg-sauce - Exhaust
Office - Interior
Pleather - plastic leatherette
Wand - Handbrake
Whale penis - Whale penis shaped intake
Bitsa - Bits‘a this, bits‘a that
Duracell - Orange over black
Hard-parked - Parking very hard to show off, cars that have all the "race"/track mods known to man and beast only to be parked up or never raced
Oil burner - Diesel
Panda - Black and white
Park & pose - Show & shine
Fester - Fiesta
Rex - CRX
Teggy - Integra
Lude - Prelude
S Body - Any of the Silvia generations

[generationx]

3-door = 1st shape Sierra Cosworth (sorry, Cossie...)
Saff = 4-door Sapphire Cosworth (again, sorry)

The colour "Mallard Green" on Escort Cosworths was sometimes known internally at Ford as "British Racing Duck"

[davhill]

snuffy said:

Flying Turd:

Nah, that's a Leyland D/F (Design Fault) and here are some more...

Dollop o' ste - Any Dolomite but the Sprint - same name, it just got the 'Sprint' suffix

Toastrack - Triumph TR7 coupe

Crapi - any Ford Capri

Hitler's revenge - VW Beetle

Alfaslug - any lesser Alfa Sud....'Alfa Sod' would do

Min Bin - pre BMW Mini

Anglebox - Ford Anglia

Bimmer - BMW

Harold - Triumph Herald

Puff chariot - Thriumph Spitfire

Foxhole - any Vauxhall

Harpoon or 'poon - Sunbeam Alpine

Plastic Rat - Reliant Scimitar

Playmobil - Scimitar SS1

Bond Slug - Bond Bug

Solihulll Snail - Land Rover up to and including the Series Two

Septic Tank - Humber Sceptre

X31 - what my old mum used to call my XR3i

Opel Fruit - my Manta GTJ

Escargot - Ford Escort

Great Truck VI - Triumph GT6 MkIII

Sprogeye Fright - Frogeye Sprite

MG Maggot - MG Midget

Yank Tank - any aged American car

A Few names for bits or consumables...

Small philosopher - a metal plate (a Plato) to weld into a hole.

Doing the township trick - said plate being heat distorted and so failing to lie flat (as in Pulawayo)

Oxy arsey - tie - lene - gas welding kit

Spanish Idiot - MIG welder, as in Miguel Duh

Hippo Snot - trim glue, especially the impact kind

Primula - primer.

Pedgepog or Sister Pedge - a bit/bits of MIG welding wire protruding from a weld

Oxymoron - Someone who can't gas weld well

Sparrow's toenail machine - air-driven sheet steel cutter with plunging mandrel

Spaniard - spanner

Lastly, the thing that gets on my tits so we're off to pedant's corner. There never was, nor will there ever be a Robin Reliant, just as there's no such thing as, say, a Fiesta Ford or a Corsa Vauxhall. The vehicle's maker was Reliant and the model was the Robin. It's Reliant Robin - geddit???

[Halmyre]

Not specifically car related, but a pingfkit is any small but vital part which ricochets off into the darkest recesses of the engine bay/bodyshell/garage.

[DiscoColin]

"Flymo" or "Tango" - anything in a primarily orange factory paint job.
"Banana" - anything in a primarily yellow factory paint job.

[MorganP104]

Here's an interesting bit of nickname pedantry for us all to chew over. Many moons ago, when I was properly into my BMWs (I still like 'em, but drive a Merc at the moment), a lengthy debate raged amongst the faithful on the difference between Bimmer and Beemer.

Overwhelming consensus was that Bimmers are BMW cars and Beemers are BMW motorbikes.

So, there you are.

[Levin]

MorganP104 said:

Here's an interesting bit of nickname pedantry for us all to chew over. Many moons ago, when I was properly into my BMWs (I still like 'em, but drive a Merc at the moment), a lengthy debate raged amongst the faithful on the difference between Bimmer and Beemer.

Overwhelming consensus was that Bimmers are BMW cars and Beemers are BMW motorbikes.

So, there you are.

Consensus or not, I still disagree and would refer to the cars as Beemers. My act of minor rebellion right there.

[Jex]

DiscoColin said:

"Banana" - anything in a primarily yellow factory paint job.

Also Custard Tart

[TheTwitcher]

Hairdryer - any air-cooled car, especially Beetles and 911s.