What you named your 5

Magpie · Postby **Magpie** » Wed May 03, 2017 10:30 am

Daffy wrote: I remember you touching on changing the mistress colour to a Kawasaki candy apple green, but I do have to say, in her current blue suit, she really looks the goods

I will be doing a test paint soon (bonnet, front bar and front 1/4 panels) to see what it looks like, good having spare parts at home.

The silver stripe will become red, blue will be green and there will be a white and black pinstripe separating the red/green on the side but not on the middle stripe...

I was going to say that my partner refers to the car as a 'whore' as it is a big hole and takes all my money but this is a family friendly forum...

davekmoore · Postby **davekmoore** » Wed May 03, 2017 10:53 am

Daffy wrote:I'm a definite fan of your BARMY Dave. if it wasn't for inspiration drawn from the perseverance shown in your build thread Daves SE reborn, dare I'd say My Problem Child may have not come to be after sharing similar build dramas....... visions finally realised are a great thing, dispite the dramas!

Good to hear my perseverance aka stupidity counts for something other than just my ear to ear grins recently as the car has come together, only 7 years later. Still not finished, of course, as more and more items become consumables and, of course, the car is now 13 years old - well, some bits are!

Daffy · Postby **Daffy** » Wed May 03, 2017 2:32 pm

Magpie wrote:
Daffy wrote: I remember you touching on changing the mistress colour to a Kawasaki candy apple green, but I do have to say, in her current blue suit, she really looks the goods

I will be doing a test paint soon (bonnet, front bar and front 1/4 panels) to see what it looks like, good having spare parts at home.

The silver stripe will become red, blue will be green and there will be a white and black pinstripe separating the red/green on the side but not on the middle stripe...

I was going to say that my partner refers to the car as a 'whore' as it is a big hole and takes all my money but this is a family friendly forum...

Looking forward to seeing the new colour combo

Daffy · Postby **Daffy** » Wed May 03, 2017 2:35 pm

davekmoore wrote:
Daffy wrote:I'm a definite fan of your BARMY Dave. if it wasn't for inspiration drawn from the perseverance shown in your build thread Daves SE reborn, dare I'd say My Problem Child may have not come to be after sharing similar build dramas....... visions finally realised are a great thing, dispite the dramas!

Good to hear my perseverance aka stupidity counts for something other than just my ear to ear grins recently as the car has come together, only 7 years later. Still not finished, of course, as more and more items become consumables and, of course, the car is now 13 years old - well, some bits are!

I tend to draw inspiration from the wise words of the great man Edison...............

Magpie · Postby **Magpie** » Wed May 03, 2017 2:41 pm

http://www.economist.com/node/18557776 Fail often, fail well

davekmoore · Postby **davekmoore** » Wed May 03, 2017 7:58 pm

... and there's another tale about a goldminer who ran out of perseverance and sold his stake and tools. The buyer struck rich 2 feet later.

hmd · Postby **hmd** » Tue May 09, 2017 2:54 pm

Marge the barge

Stock NC1 touring.

GCMX5 · Postby **GCMX5** » Tue Oct 17, 2017 4:18 pm

Magpie wrote:My partner calls it 'mistress' as I spend more time with 'it', pay 'it' more attention, touch 'it' more and spend more on 'it' than I do with her.

Probably why I have a string of ex-wives. :roll:

Paying all that off means I can only JUST afford my MX5's. :lol:

Names?......refer to signature!

LiteIsRite · Postby **LiteIsRite** » Tue Oct 17, 2017 6:53 pm

Name: Cherry
Owner: LiteIsRite
Type: 1990 NA6
Mods: mostly stock, with some bolt-ons like frame rail braces
Background: don’t usually name our cars, but “MX5” just doesn’t roll off the tongue. I guess our American cousins are lucky in that way, with “Miata”. Anyhow, we struggled with it until recently when my wife was showing me a storage bag she bought to have at her feet on our drives together. It’s black, printed with a pattern of cherries. I looked at it, and the name “Cherry” just seemed obvious.

ianoz · Postby **ianoz** » Wed Oct 18, 2017 1:00 pm

The less generous in the household call it WOFTAM..

I just call it 'the toy car'

NA6. In the process of being replaced by NB8B.

Rocky · Postby **Rocky** » Wed Oct 18, 2017 3:23 pm

What do you call a 'Crystal Blue' NB8B? Why, "Crystal" of course.
It was an easy association as "Crystal" is my favourite Elton John song off my favourite Elton John album "Too Low for Zero".
I like the 'association' of Crystal being a 'relationship-tester' - per the song - as there was a bit of friction in the Rocky household when I announced I was buying a new sports car (my own money from a second job).

Crystal is pretty much bog-standard (apart from HT, scuff-plates, clear indicators & carpets) which is how I like my cars.

LiteIsRite · Postby **LiteIsRite** » Wed Oct 18, 2017 9:15 pm

Rocky wrote:What do you call a 'Crystal Blue' NB8B? Why, "Crystal" of course.
It was an easy association as "Crystal" is my favourite Elton John song off my favourite Elton John album "Too Low for Zero”

I’ve always admired NB’s in that colour, and yours is a great example!

Regarding a song tie-in, in my post I forgot to mention that “Cherry” is as in Neil Diamond’s “Cherry, Cherry” from 1966 (and recently revived for a certain chocolate bar :wink:

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JBT · Postby **JBT** » Wed Oct 18, 2017 9:28 pm

Max....because I have no imagination...

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a30guy · Postby **a30guy** » Thu Oct 19, 2017 8:44 am

I called my red NA 'Miranda' because we got lost on the way to Hanging Rock.

The NB Titanium is just 'The Titanium' because a name hasn't occurred to me yet.

We named the white NA 'Bianca' because it means white. Very imaginative!