I tend to have temporary names for mine. Just last Sunday I used two... "C'mon man" and "Sonofa.." But those tend to be used when the hood is up and i'm crawling around it with a wrench in my hand.
Okay, Fess Up. Who Has Named Their Jeep? (And What Is It?)
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Andy Maurer
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Hammer24
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I’ve gratuitously named mine Lucabella just to aggravate Jerry
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That is hilarious!Jeep names are best earned and given by friends/fellow Jeepers. Mine, for example, somehow became known as the Geezer Jeep.
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Ha! Now I have the right word to use when the sages of this group start talking about "Dana-44-long-arm-over-under-42-225s-rock-em-sock-em mods." Now us newbies can say, "You'rrrrrre talkin' Jeepersh."I haven’t named mine.
But my 10 year old daughter suggested “Jeeperish” since I talk so much Jeep-jibberish at home.
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In conversations, I kept referencing the little orange Jeep. At some point, in text messages with friends, it was easier to just type LOJ. Which then just eventually became Lo-J. None of my other Jeeps ever had names. You can't really force it. However - be aware that if your friends name your Jeep, it will absolutely stick, especially if it is something you don't like! So, if that is a concern, name it quick and stick to it. I have a friend with a Jeep named Poopie, and that name will never go away, no matter how many times he tries to call it "the tan Jeep"
I just call it “Jeep”, but my father -in -law calls it “Peppy” since every time he’s in it he thinks it’s fast . I actually think since most of the time he’s in it the top is down and it just feels fast, lol.
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Oh My Gosh. I cannot stop laughing.In conversations, I kept referencing the little orange Jeep. At some point, in text messages with friends, it was easier to just type LOJ. Which then just eventually became Lo-J. None of my other Jeeps ever had names. You can't really force it. However - be aware that if your friends name your Jeep, it will absolutely stick, especially if it is something you don't like! So, if that is a concern, name it quick and stick to it. I have a friend with a Jeep named Poopie, and that name will never go away, no matter how many times he tries to call it "the tan Jeep"
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I'm calling mine "Shiloh." It's a name that fits the West, but there's a deeper story. My wife was recently diagnosed with Stage 3 Melanoma, so we're walking that road now. In the midst of that, some dear and generous friends learned that I had had to scrap my 2000 Expedition with over 300,000 miles on it, and they also learned of my life-long desire to own a Jeep. They gave me a financial gift, specifically for the purchase of a Jeep, that was close enough to what I needed that I could pull some other resources together and purchase my 2003 TJ. Shiloh is a biblical name and one of its meanings is "His gift."
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Waaay back in 1973, (yes, I'm an Old Guy), my buddy and I were considering joining the Columbus Ohio Fire Dept. We drove all over town getting tours of Fire Stations in my 1948 CJ2-A.
One of them had an old Rio 6X6 in the back. The station was on the outskirts of the city, and there was a lot of construction in the area. The Fire Fighter we were talking to said that they took it out to muddy construction sites. When we asked what it's designation was, he said they called it Muddog.
The next time I got stuck in the mud, and got out by myself, my friend said that at least we didn't have to call The Muddog to rescue us. Then he started calling my Jeep Muddog. The name has stuck for five Jeeps now.
One of them had an old Rio 6X6 in the back. The station was on the outskirts of the city, and there was a lot of construction in the area. The Fire Fighter we were talking to said that they took it out to muddy construction sites. When we asked what it's designation was, he said they called it Muddog.
The next time I got stuck in the mud, and got out by myself, my friend said that at least we didn't have to call The Muddog to rescue us. Then he started calling my Jeep Muddog. The name has stuck for five Jeeps now.
I wish that 20 some years ago I had realized this applies to kids also. We named our daughter Elizabeth which was fine. Early on I called her Beth but the wife didn't like it and wanted to keep using her full name. Within a week of starting kindergarden she became Lizzy which didn't take long to be shortened even more to Liz. Unfortunately while growing up I knew at least one of each that were completely unlikable and a couple Beths that were pretty much perfect. It took several years for me to get past that.
As for the name of my TJ, it's The Jeep, isn't that what TJ stands for? Actually it's my second The Jeep. The first was sold and 20 years later I got it back. It has now been renamed The Yellow Jeep mainly so the wife knows which one I'm talking about.
My wife calls it the washing machine, assuming because it has similar aerodynamics. I picked her up from a happy hour once and she got in and said "take me home washing machine".