another question from a novice...what's the protocol on changing the name of your bus from the previous owners? we inherited Weronyka based on the plate, and we are ok keeping that as one vw garage told us it was bad luck to change it, just there are 5 of us in the family, all with different views on what we might call it if its not bad form...figured there would be plenty of opinion on TLB, cheers
You're whole world will collapse around your ears if you change the name of your bus. You are meddling with forces beyond your comprehension. BEWARE!!!!!
he's joking mate, seriously? it's an inanimate object it will work exactly the same if it's covered in flowers and loved by you and called daisy as much as it's hated and called satan - just name it what you like.
Well I'm doomed then - ours changed gender and name when we got it. Charlie -> Hattie Don't know why it was Charlie, but I'd already declared that if we ever bought one we should call it Hattie, then when one came up with reg HTT, it was a done deal. (no of course that's not the only reason we bought it. It's purple as well...)
If you rename a yacht the only way to avoid bad luck is to restep the mast & place a gold coin under the new mast. Maybe something similar works with a bus, put a gold coin in the engine bay. Heaven knows I've put enough gold coins into our Camper.
great idea - veronica/Ronnie is cool - also you can have a signature song when you're driving. Is it all in that pretty little head of yours? What goes on in that place in the dark? Well I used to know a girl and I could have sworn that her name was Veronica Well she used to have a carefree mind of her own and a delicate look in her eye These days I'm afraid she's not even sure if her name is Veronica Chorus: Do you suppose, that waiting hands on eyes, Veronica has gone to hide? and all the time she laughs at those who shout her name and steal her clothes. Veronica, Veronica, Veronica Did the days drag by? Did the favours wane? Did he roam down the town all the while? did you wake from your dream, with a wolf at the door, reaching out for Veronica Well it was all of sixty-five years ago When the world was the street where she lived And a young man sailed on a ship in the sea With a picture of Veronica On the "Empress of India" And as she closed her eyes upon the world and picked upon the bones of last week's news She spoke his name out loud again Chorus: Do you suppose, that waiting hands on eyes, Veronica has gone to hide? and all the time she laughs at those who shout her name and steal her clothes. Veronica, Veronica, Veronica Veronica sits in her favorite chair She sits very quiet and still And they call her a name that they never get right and if they don't then nobody else will But she used to have a carefree mind of her own with a devilish look in her eye saying you can call me anything you like but my name is Veronica Chorus: Do you suppose, that waiting hands on eyes, Veronica has gone to hide? and all the time she laughs at those who shout her name and steal her clothes. Veronica, Veronica, Veronica
We changed the name of our van - it used to be called Bertha, but in an effort to save weight we changed it to Ertha.
Mine was just called the sunshine bus when I got her, so translated it to welsh to get 'Heulwen', which is the double meaning of also being a female's name and the word 'sunshine'.
We've changed the name on all our buses. Some either didn't have one or they were not to our liking so we just made up random ones that we liked except for our latest bus Mack who (a) came from Scotland (previously Arizona though!) and b) my other half loves big American Mack trucks so adding the 'k' covered all angles