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Old 09-22-2003, 08:37 PM
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My vote still goes to Sylvia.

BTW, I too have named every vehicle that I've owned (actually, the first two came from family members, so I used the names that had already been given to the cars). I actually kinda stopped with my old van (me and my dad kept good-naturedly arguing over what the name should be), and hadn't named the truck until one day when I wsa getting tired of not being able to make U-turns, and commented that the truck has the turning radius of an aircraft carrier. So, I named it after one.

Then, when I got the car, I decided that I should stick with the naval theme, but needed the name of a German mid-sized ship. Someone on here pointed me to a database of WWII German warships, and I picked the one that I figured best fit the car (also the one I liked). There's also some irony there, given what happened at "Nurnberg" (known to us as "Nurenberg") in '46 and '47...
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