# Car names for fun

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-names-for-fun/175940>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [April 1, 2021, 10:26pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-names-for-fun/175940 "2021-04-01T22:26:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 2

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**Author:** ![LoudThunder](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/loudthunder/32/27769_2.png) [@LoudThunder](https://community.cartalk.com/u/LoudThunder)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 3:49pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-names-for-fun/175940/21 "2021-04-02T15:49:45Z")

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I would add the Nissan Pathfinder to your list for “Adventurer”… Great List!

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**Author:** ![common-sense-answer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/common-sense-answer/32/716_2.png) [@common-sense-answer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/common-sense-answer)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 4:41pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-names-for-fun/175940/22 "2021-04-02T16:41:24Z")

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**Snowplow driver** - _ **Tundra** _

**Parents with kids onboard, throwing tantrums** - _ **Fit** _

_ **CSA** _  
🌴 🕶 🌴

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**Author:** ![Triedaq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Triedaq](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Triedaq)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 5:08pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-names-for-fun/175940/23 "2021-04-02T17:08:03Z")

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Cruise Ship.Captain: Luxury Liner (think.1941 Dodge)

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**Author:** ![common-sense-answer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/common-sense-answer/32/716_2.png) [@common-sense-answer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/common-sense-answer)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 5:18pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-names-for-fun/175940/24 "2021-04-02T17:18:12Z")

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**Lawyer** (_especially prosecutor_) - _ **Viper** _

**Lawyer** _(for an air conditioner manufacturer)_ - _ **AC Cobra** _

**Phil Collins** - _ **Genesis** _

_ **CSA** _  
🌴 🕶 🌴

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**Author:** ![Renegade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Renegade](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Renegade)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 5:23pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-names-for-fun/175940/25 "2021-04-02T17:23:16Z")

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Car mechanics - Ford🙄  
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Also mortician.

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**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/48514_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 5:37pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-names-for-fun/175940/26 "2021-04-02T17:37:10Z")

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> [@LoudThunder](#):
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> I would add the Nissan Pathfinder to your list for “Adventurer”

Shouldn’t an Adventurer drive a **DeSoto Adventurer**?  
I know that I would like one!  
😁

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**Author:** ![Barkydog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/barkydog/32/2470_2.png) [@Barkydog](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Barkydog)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 5:53pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-names-for-fun/175940/27 "2021-04-02T17:53:00Z")

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A lady that wears very short skirts ~ Mini

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**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/48514_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 6:21pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-names-for-fun/175940/28 "2021-04-02T18:21:17Z")

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> [@Barkydog](#):
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> A lady that wears very short skirts ~ Mini

… especially if her family name is Cooper!

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**Author:** ![Renegade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Renegade](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Renegade)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 6:32pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-names-for-fun/175940/29 "2021-04-02T18:32:34Z")

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Or a Dodge adventurer pick up.

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**Author:** ![circuitsmith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/circuitsmith/32/40376_2.png) [@circuitsmith](https://community.cartalk.com/u/circuitsmith)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 8:19pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-names-for-fun/175940/30 "2021-04-02T20:19:33Z")

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> [@VDCdriver](#):
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> especially if her family name is Cooper!

Or she makes barrels!

> **[Cooper (profession)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper_(profession))**
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> A cooper is a craftsman who produces wooden casks, barrels, vats, buckets, tubs, troughs, and other similar containers from timber staves that were usually heated or steamed to make them pliable. Journeymen coopers also traditionally made wooden implements, such as rakes and wooden-bladed shovels. In addition to wood, other materials, such as iron, were used in the manufacturing process. The trade is the origin of the surname Cooper. The word "cooper" is derived from Middle Dutch or Middle Low G...

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**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2021, 2:01am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-names-for-fun/175940/31 "2021-04-03T02:01:06Z")

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Conquistadors always loved their Eldorados.

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**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2021, 6:37am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-names-for-fun/175940/32 "2021-04-03T06:37:53Z")

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> [@Mustangman](#):
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> Tom Cruise in Maverick

Wouldn’t it be James Garner?  
Ty Hardin in a _Bronco_  
Is there a _Cheyenne_ for Clint Walker? I ran into Clinton Walker working at Trader Joe’s last month.

> [@jtsanders](#):
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> Admiral in a Corvette.

> [@Barkydog](#):
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> Maybe even a corsair!

I don’t think you’re going to get an admiral in either of those; an ensign maybe.

> [@Marnet](#):
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> Mapmaker - Tucson, Santa Fe, Cimmaron, Atlas, Monte Carlo, Tahoe, Bel Air

And the _Horizon_. Wouldn’t a gambler drive a _Monte Carlo_. I remember Somerset Maugham’s description of Monte Carlo: ‘A sunny place for shady people.’

> [@Marnet](#):
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> Firefighter - Blazer

No, an arsonist.

> [@jtsanders](#):
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> Conquistadors always loved their Eldorados.

and gold-diggers.

An actor in an _Acclaim_ (and he’d deserve it.)

Franz Kafka in a K-Car. He’d drive and drive but never get anywhere.

Carpet cleaners in _Stanley Steamers_.

Muhammad Ali in a _Champion_

A _Murcielago_ for Bat Masterson - Batman too.

An airplane mechanic would drive a _Gremlin_.

Julie Andrews and Audrey Hepburn in _Fair Ladies_

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**Author:** ![Mustangman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mustangman/32/44130_2.png) [@Mustangman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Mustangman)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2021, 12:13pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-names-for-fun/175940/33 "2021-04-03T12:13:23Z")

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> [@RandomTroll](#):
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> Wouldn’t it be James Garner?

Could be… but that wasn’t my thought… Tom Cruise played a character Top Gun whose call sign was “Maverick”

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**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/48514_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2021, 1:03pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-names-for-fun/175940/34 "2021-04-03T13:03:28Z")

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> [@Marnet](#):
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> Diplomat - Accord, Envoy

Or, a Diplomat could drive… a Nash Ambassador or even a Dodge Diplomat

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**Author:** ![Triedaq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Triedaq](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Triedaq)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2021, 1:08pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-names-for-fun/175940/35 "2021-04-03T13:08:35Z")

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Revolutionary War Soldier. Plymouth Concord

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**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/48514_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2021, 1:41pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-names-for-fun/175940/36 "2021-04-03T13:41:51Z")

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A resident of The Empire State could drive a Chrysler New Yorker.  
A member of the British Royal Family could drive a Chrysler Windsor–even though Windsor isn’t really their family name.

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**Author:** ![fleetmanager](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/fleetmanager/32/24111_2.png) [@fleetmanager](https://community.cartalk.com/u/fleetmanager)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 3:55pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-names-for-fun/175940/37 "2021-04-05T15:55:59Z")

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Screaming kids at the grocery, Subaru Brat.

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**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 4:51pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-names-for-fun/175940/38 "2021-04-05T16:51:22Z")

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Ron Perlman, Hellcat.

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**Author:** ![p.g.i.holmes\_156524](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@p.g.i.holmes\_156524](https://community.cartalk.com/u/p.g.i.holmes_156524)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 8:16pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-names-for-fun/175940/39 "2021-04-05T20:16:49Z")

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Florist - Corolla

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**Author:** ![p.g.i.holmes\_156524](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@p.g.i.holmes\_156524](https://community.cartalk.com/u/p.g.i.holmes_156524)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 8:17pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-names-for-fun/175940/40 "2021-04-05T20:17:57Z")

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Arborist - Leaf

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