+thecaswellfamily Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 My first vehicle was a 2 wheel drive toyota pickup named "Casper"... even though it was brown. Then I got a '97 Jeep Wrangler that was "Unsinkable Molly". After we were married my husband and I had a '95 mustang named "Strawberry" after a really WRONG Snoop song. Now we have a Chevrolet SS pickup known as "The Big Red Beast" and an '11 mustang GT known as the "Snazzy Hot Rod" (both named by our children). I covet a 4-door Rubicon (maroon, and I will call her Ruby) but alas, we spent too much on that GT for my husband. My first GPS, a Garmin eTrex Legend HCx was just known as "Garmin"... but my new Oregon is "Sweet Thing." Quote Link to comment
+dorothy&scarecrow Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 as i just got a new cache-mobile, i'm still trying to find a good name for her. silver ford focus.( she seems like a girlie car ) my gps is named henry. long story short, i bought a nuvi back in 2007 and with the girl voice named her gail. i can't stand that name and she was getting annoying with her "recalculating". then when i got into geocaching and named me and my son dorothy&scarecrow ( big wizard of oz fan )i realized what i had named my nuvi. for those non oz fans dorothy's last name is gale. so i needed a name in oz theme for my etrex. scarecrow said we should call him henry, after uncle henry. it's funny cause the whole family will ask if they can borrow gail or henry and if others overhear, i'm sure they think we're all nuts! Quote Link to comment
+John in Valley Forge Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 I have a Navigon for the vehicle that everyone started calling Betsy. I have no idea why, the kids thought the voice sounded like a Betsy. I have no name for my Magellan ExploristGC, I guess if I did, it would be Maggie. I just traded in the Big Blue Bread Box minivan. Don't have a name for the Explorer. I also have a couple of iRobot floor cleaners; Wheezy is Roomba, Squeezy is a Scooba. Quote Link to comment
AZcachemeister Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 A thread titled "Naming Your Equipment" could go off-track in an interesting manner. 'My Equipment' has had a special name since I was 9 or 10. Not sharing. Quote Link to comment
+dfx Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 That is my GPS holder. I call it...Jeep. It is not a car. Wow, I'm sorry I have to tell you this, but I'm afraid you got ripped off. For the same money that you've spent on your holder, I actually got a nice car! Quote Link to comment
+zoltig Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 (edited) That is my GPS holder. I call it...Jeep. It is not a car. Wow, I'm sorry I have to tell you this, but I'm afraid you got ripped off. For the same money that you've spent on your holder, I actually got a nice car! No. You have a car and I have a GPS holder. I can drive my GPS holder on the road and the trails. Where can you drive your "nice" car? Can you go here? or here? How about these? All on the way to get or place geocaches. Yeah. You have a nice car and I have a GPS holder. BTW-redirected from G-P from the military General Purpose vehicle. Hence G-PS holder = Jeep Edited February 26, 2011 by zoltig Quote Link to comment
+Avernar Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 No. You have a car and I have a GPS holder. I can drive my GPS holder on the road and the trails. Where can you drive your "nice" car? Can you go here? I can go to the first one and to the others after I put on a lift this summer. I wonder if dfx would be willing to follow me to a few caches in his "nice" car.... Quote Link to comment
+zoltig Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 No. You have a car and I have a GPS holder. I can drive my GPS holder on the road and the trails. Where can you drive your "nice" car? Can you go here? I can go to the first one and to the others after I put on a lift this summer. I wonder if dfx would be willing to follow me to a few caches in his "nice" car.... SWEET! Let me know when you want to hit the trails! The first pic is 4x4 12-Wise Mt. Cabin at 12,000ft ASL. You will have some greeters when you get there. Quote Link to comment
+Avernar Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Let me know when you want to hit the trails! Unfortunately I'm way over here in southern Ontario. I may have to do a road trip out that way at the end of summer after seeing those pics and video. Quote Link to comment
+Bad_Wolfe Posted February 26, 2011 Author Share Posted February 26, 2011 A thread titled "Naming Your Equipment" could go off-track in an interesting manner. 'My Equipment' has had a special name since I was 9 or 10. Not sharing. Classy... Quote Link to comment
+Brooklyn51 Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 (edited) Our first GPSr was a TomTom set with the female English voice. We always referred to it as "Her" as in: did you put "Her" in the car? or "She" as in: "She" said to take the next right.. wait.."She's" recalculating. Then got a Garmin Etrex HC which we called the Geoplunker or just the Plunker, kind of a take from Spelunker, which of course has nothing to do with geocaching but sounded cool at the time. Our new Oregon has adopted the same name. Edited February 26, 2011 by Brooklyn51 Quote Link to comment
+Penlowe Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 My mom vehicle is a Chevy Traverse, which I adore. A couple months after we bought it we hosted a birthday party for my older daughter. One of the party favors was stick on mustaches (which is hilarious on little girls). Hubs wore one through most of the party, a big black bandito type. When we left he stuck it on the dashboard. Travis was born. It's my first 'male' vehicle. Just before Christmas we acquired a Jeep Wrangler, second hand of course. We found it on Craig's List, good pictures, very poor spelling and grammar in the write up. It was listed with "a wench, soft top, KC lights". We joked about finding a trashy girl passed out in the back but were pleased to instead find a high quality winch on the front. Needless to say the YJ is The Wench. Quote Link to comment
+BaylorGrad Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 A thread titled "Naming Your Equipment" could go off-track in an interesting manner. 'My Equipment' has had a special name since I was 9 or 10. Not sharing. Classy... This is spectacular. I'm glad I'm not the only one with an inner 12-year-old mind. Anyone else notice that someone called their GPS "unit?" Heh heh heh. Quote Link to comment
+popokiiti Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 My Nissan X-Trail and its travel bug are known as "The Trucklet." Thanks to someone here on the forums, my/our Explorist GC is also known as Booger when it is behaving, L'il Snot when its not. Quote Link to comment
+puparazzi Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 My car (A Silver Altima) is Silvie and my GPS ( a yellow Garmin Etrex Venture HC) is Peepers. Quote Link to comment
+WhoDis Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 "What are we gonna name the TB? For that matter, what are we gonna name the car?" What we're looking at is this: A Jeep is not a car!!! Point taken. My bad. A Jeep doesn't have 4 doors either! Quote Link to comment
+WhoDis Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 The Bumble Bee. Note, only 2 doors. No, mister 4 door Jeep family vehicle, you do not get the Jeep wave. Quote Link to comment
+WhoDis Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 That is my GPS holder. I call it...Jeep. It is not a car. Wow, I'm sorry I have to tell you this, but I'm afraid you got ripped off. For the same money that you've spent on your holder, I actually got a nice car! No. You have a car and I have a GPS holder. I can drive my GPS holder on the road and the trails. Where can you drive your "nice" car? Can you go here? or here? How about these? All on the way to get or place geocaches. Yeah. You have a nice car and I have a GPS holder. BTW-redirected from G-P from the military General Purpose vehicle. Hence G-PS holder = Jeep Man, I wish I'd had my Jeep when I was stationed in CO. Quote Link to comment
+Avernar Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 A Jeep doesn't have 4 doors either! Oooh! Them's fighting words! Quote Link to comment
+zoltig Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Man, I wish I'd had my Jeep when I was stationed in CO. Head on out when you get a chance! We have plenty of Jeep Trail series for geocaching. Quote Link to comment
+WhoDis Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Man, I wish I'd had my Jeep when I was stationed in CO. Head on out when you get a chance! We have plenty of Jeep Trail series for geocaching. I just might take you up on that this summer, if gas is still under $20/gal. It's about a 20 hour drive from here. I had planned to stay there when I got out, but I let some woman talk me into coming back to KY, have regretted it ever since. I was young and stupid. My plan is to move back there once my son gets older. Fell in love with the area. Quote Link to comment
+Dgwphotos Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 The Millenium Falcon: (The photo is a bit out of date, I've been meaning to get an updated one for the trackable page.) Quote Link to comment
+Rckhnd Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 My Garmin e-trex legend H.... I've named it 'Nowdammit!' because it takes forever to load every time I choose a function. My truck is - Truck Quote Link to comment
+t4e Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 (edited) That is my GPS holder. I call it...Jeep. It is not a car. Wow, I'm sorry I have to tell you this, but I'm afraid you got ripped off. For the same money that you've spent on your holder, I actually got a nice car! No. You have a car and I have a GPS holder. I can drive my GPS holder on the road and the trails. Where can you drive your "nice" car? Can you go here? the "nice" car can be driven on the road, any car can for that matter why would i want to go with a car where i can hike? car doesn't need exercise to stay fit, the human body does anyways, a JEEP is still a car, every passenger vehicle is a car, no matter what you want to call it Edited February 27, 2011 by t4e Quote Link to comment
+zoltig Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 That is my GPS holder. I call it...Jeep. It is not a car. Wow, I'm sorry I have to tell you this, but I'm afraid you got ripped off. For the same money that you've spent on your holder, I actually got a nice car! No. You have a car and I have a GPS holder. I can drive my GPS holder on the road and the trails. Where can you drive your "nice" car? Can you go here? why would i want to go with a car where i can hike? car doesn't need exercise to stay fit, the human body does Hike? Gotcha covered. Hewlett's Gulch Bishop's Staff The Lost Pond Dust 2 Dust Painted Rocks n0wae's lure #25 - Trails End Here are a few hike examples out of my caching history to name a few. Besides, my GPS holder is named Jeep. YOU are going totally off topic talking about cars vs Jeeps. I have also made a commitment to myself and others to include more hiking caches this year and in the future. I will probably be driving my GPS holder to the trailheads just like you will drive your "nice" car to the trailheads. But if by chance I am inclined to include a few 4x4 geocaches as well, I will put my GPS holder in 4 low. :laughing: Quote Link to comment
+t4e Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 Besides, my GPS holder is named Jeep. YOU are going totally off topic talking about cars vs Jeeps. I have also made a commitment to myself and others to include more hiking caches this year and in the future. I will probably be driving my GPS holder to the trailheads just like you will drive your "nice" car to the trailheads. But if by chance I am inclined to include a few 4x4 geocaches as well, I will put my GPS holder in 4 low. :laughing: whatever tickles your fancy, have fun! btw: the car i drive, is not only nice, its awesome Quote Link to comment
+zoltig Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 Besides, my GPS holder is named Jeep. YOU are going totally off topic talking about cars vs Jeeps. I have also made a commitment to myself and others to include more hiking caches this year and in the future. I will probably be driving my GPS holder to the trailheads just like you will drive your "nice" car to the trailheads. But if by chance I am inclined to include a few 4x4 geocaches as well, I will put my GPS holder in 4 low. :laughing: whatever tickles your fancy, have fun! btw: the car i drive, is not only nice, its awesome Consider my fancy tickled. Enjoy your Yugo. Quote Link to comment
+Bad_Wolfe Posted March 1, 2011 Author Share Posted March 1, 2011 And the Blue Bayou is now sitting in the Driveway! About a week earlier than expected, too! Quote Link to comment
+zoltig Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 And the Blue Bayou is now sitting in the Driveway! About a week earlier than expected, too! Right on. You see...geocaching doesn't cost much. Let your 4x4 caching adventures begin. “4×4 Geocaching” A Geocaching.com Lost & Found Video Quote Link to comment
+karstic Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 Introducing Hot Lips This was right after finding this cache http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=f451fc95-7e9f-42ef-9f43-196df129fc46&log=y&decrypt= and Blueberry Quote Link to comment
+Coyote's Girl Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 (edited) My Garmin 80MIL is "Ol' Trusty" The Nuvi 205 my mother in law gave us for Christmas is "Thingy" and needs a male voice because he's definitely a boy. A Magellan GC is en route to my house and I'm sure it will get a name after I've used it for a bit. Usually it's something I just end up saying to the equipment and it sticks. Like naming the cat, "Paige Marie!" Naming equipment makes it easier to talk to: "Shut up, Thingy!" is something I often say. I'm gentler with Trusty because he's old and has been dropped on his head many, many times. We have two cars. "Red" and "Blue" but Blue sometimes gets called "The Mom-Mobile" and Red is sometimes called "The C*** Car" Edited March 16, 2011 by Coyote's Girl Quote Link to comment
+Thrak Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 I have 4 GPS units - 5 if you count the one built into the new car (which I tend not to use in favor of my nüvi 760). The only one with a "name" is the nüvi 760 which is usually referred to as Jack since that's the voice I use for directions. Quote Link to comment
+Too Tall John Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 (edited) why would i want to go with a car where i can hike?car doesn't need exercise to stay fit, the human body does anyways, a JEEP is still a car, every passenger vehicle is a car, no matter what you want to call it +1 My car is a Dodge Grand Caravan Sport, named Sport. My wife's Subaru Forester is Stanley. Either will get me to just about any trailhead I could care to go to. My first GPS I named was a Legend HCx. I'd bought the street maps for it, so if I was driving anywhere, he'd frequently try and take me down the wrong road. His name was "Charlie" as in "Sorry Charlie!" from the old StarKist Tuna commercials. Charlie was replaced by an Oregon (named Charles II), but when I looked at getting the street maps again for it, I realized it was cheaper to just buy a basic Nuvi. He became "King Charles III" but was quickly dubbed "Chuck" by my wife, mostly because that's what she wanted to do with it. Edited March 16, 2011 by Too Tall John Quote Link to comment
+HomeStyle Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 We name everything!!! My car gps is Carmen the Garmin. My car (suv, yet still a car) has now been weekday replaced by a Gas sipper Chevy Aveo. Since in comparison the Aveo is so tiny, I call it my clown car. We look about like it when we're all peeling out of it at one time. My hubby calls it Squeek Toy. So now, my suv is called Big Mama. I haven't named my eTrex yet though. It probably thinks it already has a name anyway because every time I look at it, I mutter "phone a friend" haha Quote Link to comment
+Monkeymox Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 My Droid is called Glitch. At the same time, it's a reference to one of my favorite shows as a kid and a terribly fitting title. Nicer than what some of you seem to be calling your gear. So far we're kinda liking the idea of calling it the "Cacheacabra". See, Kesara somehow seemed to be unaware of the fact that she was saying "I Do" to a big ol' nerd. Anytime I see a vehicle with a pair of tow hooks, I get the urge to call it a "Chupathingy" I've called my car Sat Nav 'cortana' for years Now that name has been passed to my eTrex, and I've renamed my car Garmin Nuvi 'Navi' after that irritating thing from The Legend of Zelda Quote Link to comment
+The Cookie Makers Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 My main GPS we call "Old Mabel" because well...its old, and Mabel sounds like an old (Magellan Map 330M) persons name. My backup GPS is called "Smitty" because well....who else has a GPS named Smitty? Oh..oh that hurts, I was teased all through school because of Mabel (just my middle name) yeah, it was my grandma's name, passed down to my Mom, passed down to me...so what do I do...yep, pass it down to my daughter! As for naming our truck, her name is 'Baby', she's a little older and sometimes we wonder if we're gonna make it, we rub her dash and she's always pulled through for us, and our gps is, Geeps. "No no, Geeps will get us there." "So where we goin' today Geeps?" I know, a little weird, but it makes the kids laugh when we take their friends caching with us so I play it up for them because if they're happy and having fun we can keep caching. Quote Link to comment
+Coyote's Girl Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 The Explorist came today. Its name is "Tiny" Quote Link to comment
+mtbikernate Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 A thread titled "Naming Your Equipment" could go off-track in an interesting manner. 'My Equipment' has had a special name since I was 9 or 10. Not sharing. Mine is called Wally. Quote Link to comment
AZcachemeister Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 Our vehicles have names, but our GPSrs, PDAs, and/or phones really do not. The '97 Cherokee is the White Raven, based on a Cherokee myth. The 2001 F250, 4WD, SuperDuty TurboDiesel is Chauncy Barnstable "Scar-Butt" Ford, Esq. Quote Link to comment
+TheRo0sTer Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 (edited) Here's my cache hunter hauler and GPS holder. I call it a Jeep, not light truck or car and no fancy people names. Just plain ol' Jeep or the Man Jeep. Keep the fancy People names for New Beetles, Sions, and those tree hugger hybreds. LOL Edited April 3, 2011 by TheRo0sTer Quote Link to comment
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