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It's about time I moved my Abarth project (here) into the 'garage' section since I've pretty much done everything I need to for the moment on it, and there's very little chance it's original owner will recognize it, even if they do pop up. But I need a name for it since otherwise it'll be Abarth #195600 or whatever in the garage.
Normally naming a car comes quite easy to me (Scrapper / Scrapper2 for rescued Subarus, Poverty Spec for my last Legacy since it started out as the cheapest UK model, Rattus for a car with a particularly ratty interior when I got it, etc) or I can get some sort of a name from the car's "favorite" song; some tracks sound better in certain cars than they do in others, and some suit a car's feel as well, e.g. I ended up with a Capri called Leila (it's number plate had LLE in it, and a certain Eric Clapton song sounded rather good).
But I'm really struggling with the Abarth, I normally call it just "the Abarth" but that doesn't distinguish it much from all the other Abarths
I was thinking "Disaster Area" bearing in mind what condition the car was in when I got it, and bearing in mind it's all-black interior / exterior; to quote Douglas Adams (on the ship Zaphond Beeblebrox 'borrowed' from the plutonium rock band Disaster Area):
“It’s the wild colour scheme that freaks me,” said Zaphod whose love affair with this ship had lasted almost three minutes into the flight, “Every time you try to operate on of these weird black controls that are labelled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up black to let you know you’ve done it."
But that makes the car seem like, well, a disaster area
Song-wise Dandy Warhol's Neitzsche sounds great in the Abarth, but that's not much help either - "I want a god who stays dead, not plays dead". Er...
Only other option is calling it something to do with it's interior and a song which sounds OK in it. It's part 500 GQ edition inside (which shares some stuff with the Gucci edition) but "Gucci little piggy" (from Radiohead's Paranoid Android) or "Black Number 1" (Type O Negative amiably poking fun at a goth) aren't terribly nice either
I'm tending towards "Little black piggy" but there has to be something better, that just sounds plain daft!
Some pics to stir the creative juices...
Normally naming a car comes quite easy to me (Scrapper / Scrapper2 for rescued Subarus, Poverty Spec for my last Legacy since it started out as the cheapest UK model, Rattus for a car with a particularly ratty interior when I got it, etc) or I can get some sort of a name from the car's "favorite" song; some tracks sound better in certain cars than they do in others, and some suit a car's feel as well, e.g. I ended up with a Capri called Leila (it's number plate had LLE in it, and a certain Eric Clapton song sounded rather good).
But I'm really struggling with the Abarth, I normally call it just "the Abarth" but that doesn't distinguish it much from all the other Abarths
I was thinking "Disaster Area" bearing in mind what condition the car was in when I got it, and bearing in mind it's all-black interior / exterior; to quote Douglas Adams (on the ship Zaphond Beeblebrox 'borrowed' from the plutonium rock band Disaster Area):
“It’s the wild colour scheme that freaks me,” said Zaphod whose love affair with this ship had lasted almost three minutes into the flight, “Every time you try to operate on of these weird black controls that are labelled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up black to let you know you’ve done it."
But that makes the car seem like, well, a disaster area
Song-wise Dandy Warhol's Neitzsche sounds great in the Abarth, but that's not much help either - "I want a god who stays dead, not plays dead". Er...
Only other option is calling it something to do with it's interior and a song which sounds OK in it. It's part 500 GQ edition inside (which shares some stuff with the Gucci edition) but "Gucci little piggy" (from Radiohead's Paranoid Android) or "Black Number 1" (Type O Negative amiably poking fun at a goth) aren't terribly nice either
I'm tending towards "Little black piggy" but there has to be something better, that just sounds plain daft!
Some pics to stir the creative juices...
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