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Sat Apr 01, 2006 3:57 pm

Just wondering if anyone else have a name for thier motors, i named mine Marion cause i when i came home from buying her i was given the news my gran had died and well Marion was her name and she was looking forward to going for a run in my new car the day before and yada yada sentimental nonsense! :) anyway what do you call yours and why???
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Sat Apr 01, 2006 4:01 pm

After three weeks off the road doing various bits it has a wide variety of names the one that springs to mind the most begins with c and ends with t
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Sat Apr 01, 2006 4:19 pm

a pain :(
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Sat Apr 01, 2006 4:22 pm

Max mines called, not sure why it just sounded a bit heroic I thought :oops:
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Sat Apr 01, 2006 4:27 pm

Mines Granddad, coz it looks like a proper G-dad chariot , well, it did kinda loosing that now though slowly :lol:

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Sat Apr 01, 2006 4:30 pm

"the shed" if the list of fail items from the MOT test is anything to go by.

usually just known as the touring
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Sat Apr 01, 2006 5:32 pm

Mines Milly, due to the Irish plate MIL****.

Wish someone would buy the plate though, so I can put it back to its normal number, and give it a better name!
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Sat Apr 01, 2006 5:37 pm

well I suppose I can still answer this thread seems as I will be an E30 owner for another 23 hours before she gets collected.

"Bad betty"
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Sat Apr 01, 2006 5:41 pm

E30BeemerLad wrote:well I suppose I can still answer this thread seems as I will be an E30 owner for another 23 hours before she gets collected.

"Bad betty"
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mines gone today
mrs named him harold because of hld on plate

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Sat Apr 01, 2006 7:40 pm

Mine's called ellie because the plate ends with 'ele' :roll:

Which e30 have you sold Daz ?

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Sat Apr 01, 2006 7:43 pm

Templ8e30 wrote:Mine's called ellie because the plate ends with 'ele' :roll:

Which e30 have you sold Daz ?

Cheers,

Iain T
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Sat Apr 01, 2006 7:54 pm

Mine's called Brown.......because it's brown.
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Sat Apr 01, 2006 7:56 pm

The wife has called mine "Expensive" LOL
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Sat Apr 01, 2006 7:58 pm

i call my one the beast but thinking of a new name as its to common,
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Sat Apr 01, 2006 8:13 pm

my 4dr is referred to as "the silver one", the 320 touring used to just be "the tourer" but is lately being called a pig cos everything going wrong...

the 2dr gets called "the white elephant" by my inlaws cos hubby has spent hundreds on it
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Sat Apr 01, 2006 11:16 pm

My white Tourer has been nick named Ecto1 by my mates... I rather like it. :)
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Sat Apr 01, 2006 11:16 pm

Fast as Fu*k now!

but "Mine" before!
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Sat Apr 01, 2006 11:26 pm

errr......the car

or your prehistoric reilc/fosil by the lads at work because as far as their concerned its an antique :cool:

i even get called lovejoy becaue of it :roll:

or its know as the bob marley and the walers car because of the redness and the drug dealer referance :roll: :roll:
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Sat Apr 01, 2006 11:29 pm

My misses named mine Bimmer, very imagenative,lol
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Sun Apr 02, 2006 12:07 am

mines known as BEEMIE with me girlfriends, OTA or NODDY cos of the plate & colour from me and GERMAN PIECE OF CRAP from my boyfriend, but then i do get my own back on his 306 winkeye
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Sun Apr 02, 2006 12:10 am

M155-E30 wrote:but then i do get my own back on his 306 winkeye
and he has the ordasity to call your car

pahh......i'd have his ass kicked into line :lol:
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Sun Apr 02, 2006 12:14 am

worse comes to worse then i'd simply deny him certain pleasures :wink: , he'll soon see sense
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Sun Apr 02, 2006 12:27 am

just make sure you don't deprive yourself pet...after all, you need to look afterm number 1 winkeye
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Sun Apr 02, 2006 1:37 am

Hmm, my last one was called Harriet as my girlfriend came up with it and it kinda stuck. Haven't got a name for the current one but am looking for one.
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Sun Apr 02, 2006 8:27 am

i haven't got a name for mine yet but ive noticed alot of you getting the names from the plates so what could mine be? ends in ### VNA?

i made up Very Nice Arse, but my mum said it could stand for Very Norman Appleyard which was my late gradads name and he also drove a Red E30 316. Could he be wotching???
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i haven't got a name for mine yet but ive noticed alot of you getting the names from the plates so what could mine be? ends in ### VNA?

i made up Very Nice Arse :D , but my mum said it could stand for Very Norman Appleyard which was my late gradads name and he also drove a Red E30 316. Could he be wotching???
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Sun Apr 02, 2006 9:01 am

"My car" or "BMW" or sometimes "Blingmobile".
Don't do naming cars here, I leave that to Wor Lass and her shopping trolly.:lol:
Mind, when I am having trouble with it it's usually "Pile Of Shit"!
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Sun Apr 02, 2006 9:33 am

mines called bitza..
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Sun Apr 02, 2006 10:07 am

Call mine "The Sport", No imagination at all and no chance of making a name from E121 FPF.
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Sun Apr 02, 2006 11:09 am

The scrapper at the moment because it has no front wings on it :mad:

not sure if it will get a name when its back on the road.
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Sun Apr 02, 2006 12:33 pm

Mines called Bitza because thats all I've got left after she went to the big dealership in the sky !
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Grantley wrote:the big dealership in the sky !
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This is why I no longer drive an E30......

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Sun Apr 02, 2006 2:32 pm

beemer or pimpmobile
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Sun Apr 02, 2006 2:39 pm

I use to use the ending of my reg which is BOK and called my car "The BOK" until some turkish or greek person told me BOK means shit in there language, so "the Shit" was not appropiate, suppose it would be if i was in america :D you never know i might change my mind from "the beast" to "the shit" :D
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