Car Names

    So much has happened this past weekend, please hang in there as I sort these thoughts into one blog, I promise it won't hurt.   My mom shared with me an album that my second cousin Mary Rose left that had photos of family history concerning my Grandma Sarah Havens family, The McDonnells.  She had left it here after Uncle Franks Funeral Service.  I got to see pictures of all of them that I never got to see including my Great-Grandma Hazel (Rector) McDonnell when she was married at 15 to my great grandpa, of course she had lied about her age, so she could marry him.  Both of them looked so young.   So, I got to see this album when the kids and I went to my folks for dinner.  Now, you are probably wondering what this has to do with car names...I am getting to that.
     While there, we got on the subject of cars because pictured in the album were old model cars from the thirties and forties in it, so naturally the conversation progressed into my son wanting a Ford F150 as his first vehicle.  I have been working with him on his driving and let him drive Curve Road to my folks house.  I will eventually take him to a driver's school in Delaware, Ohio.  His cousin was there with his 2000 Ford Taurus and "The Name Of Cars " we have given over the years came up because he had shared with us that he had called his car "Bertha"  not sure why.  It had started how and why we named our cars and trucks.
      I remember reading Sir Anthony's Blog on how some of there vehicles impacted their lives in humorous ways.  From The Falcon which he and his brothers dangled a rope out of a hole in the car's floor board while their mother was driving, ok..I get it ,it represented what male horses and dogs look like underneath...leave it to boys (Ha-Ha).  His poor mom.   Next it was his Gremlin called " Libido "...I still haven't made that connection ..yet!

      A car can bring out the best and worse in all of us when we experience mechanical problems or just how they are built and driven   "Elmer" a white heavy duty GMC pick-up my dad had , got its name from my mom because she never liked driving it .  It was no power steering, standard shift transmission...dad called it "A Man's Truck" just to get under mom's skin.  If anybody had driven a shift up Central Ave in Delaware, knows how she felt.
    "Old Betsy" was the name my brother gave my parent's 1995 Crown Vic before they traded it for "Arnold" a 2003 Ford Exployer.  ''Big Blue" a 1977 Ford LTD was their other car when we grew into our teenage years and driven by all of us but it was my sister who named it and her little Ford truck "Lil Red"
      Right before his death, my husband picked out a 1996 Teal Ford Windstar, before that we had my favorite, a Ford Escort Wagon.  Standard shift, it was the easiest car to drive and wonderful on gas but we out grew it and when our children turned eight and six , we got the Windstar.
    After my husband died and we moved to Delaware, I hated driving it because it brought back my late husband's last few moments before he went into the hospital and then passed away.  I has a very hard time wanting to get into it.  It really got bad when my anxiety and depression worsened.   I had no choice to drive it and slowly I gained my confidence back.  It seemed like every time I was in it with the kids "Slow Ride" by Foghat came on...so I called it "Slow Ride" a typical mini-van, it fit.
    Today, while driving home from my daughter's doctor's appointment "Brick House " by The Commadores
came on.  I am not a big fan of the 1977 song but it always comes on every time I get into my newest car. 2002 Red Ford Taurus.  So since "Red" was used, My car is "Brick House."
So in honor of all the cars in our lives and to my car now...its dedicated to them

My brother had restored a 1955 Ford Pickup and called it "Puppy" he had a second name for it "Pride And Joy" a song from Stevie Ray Vaughan

I tried to think of a song that goes with "Libido" The gremlin, although  personally,I think his Fire bird  fits better.  This is the only thing I could come up with..hope you like it.