I am curious as to why some of you have the nickname(site name) that you do. Mine is easy- Tommy is because its my real name. Post the reason for your name.

Some people are just more creative than others! Yours truly - Hans Manfred Boden

acauth1 is my real name!

acauth1 is my real name! "acauth1" = "Robert Colin More" how's that work? Actually I've always been curious about that one!

From now on I'd like to be called Delux. :P

If you stick around long enough, you'll figure out who everyone is :cool:

acauth1 = A/C Authority....have used it some ten years now.

Poncho - Pontiac fan
Villa - first five letters of my last name
Pancho Villa - Mexican revoluntionary

And it was more fun for me than just plain old Rick.

I like my cars all jet black. Itialian thing..Fuhgeddabout it!

theelcaminofactory....elcaminocentral wasn't available, somebody already had it. :) Actually I've had it for about a year before El Camino Central started. Plan was to restore them and sell them as a small business venture/hobby. Temporarily placed on hold due to the 2 Trans Ams that have to be finished first for the kids.

i named myself after my 79 that i was fixing up at the time. guess i should name myself after the 83 now since i'm parting the 79 and fixing up the 83

Blackstallion!! Well, kind of a nickname by past girlfriends. No bragging, just fact!!!!

michael n mississippi kinda like the m&m man

I chose Eightysix because that is the year of my elky.

Simply put, I've got my name because of the love of my first car. A 1976 Chevy Vega. Hence the '76' and the "Vega' part of the name. The 'guy' part coming from, uh, well you know.

Charles

mine is easy. 8) i am sexy 8) .....and i drive an '84 el camino.

camino81 = I have an el camino and its an 81

'Gozer' from 'Gozer the Gozarian' (Ghostbusters ref - seemed like a good idea at the time when I claimed it for a custom plate - all the truly good tags were taken :D ). By the time it was getting dated everyone already linked it with me, so I left it that way.

Been in the computer industry since '83, started using it when Gore built the internet. Too many logons and passwords to change now. :?

Last name is Bober, pronounced like sober as a judge, only with a B. I've been called Bobber, as in fishing bobber, all my life. Friends called out, The Bobber's, thus Dabobbers.

I drive an 85 El Camino with Iowa plates, it was bought new in Iowa been in the family all it's life and I live in Kansas so I had to be the kansascamino with the Iowa El Camino. My Father owned it before me and has all of 36,000 orignal miles and still has the factory paint and interior. Still looks and runs like the day it left the show room floor.

Do I really need to explain mine :mrgreen: Everything I own is CHEVY POWERED!!

8) When I got my '82 Elky, obviously everyone thought I looked so cool in it, except my wife. I just added my initials to the tag the end. My son's initials are the same, and the kids at school have taken to calling him "coollw", much to his displeasure. :cool:

Most that know me call me "Pete" another nick name that has absoultly nothing to do with my real given name. Vernon R. Engstrom Jr. Yes Jr. My father called me "Pete" all my life so it stuck. So I have 3 El Caminos, had two of them when I came up with the name "ElkyPete" for ChevyTalk and it carried over to El Camino Central.

I'll answer to most anything. I also figured it was better than "Sir Pete the Mighty One!" well, shorter anyway. :D

Because i have a 1985 Elcamino SS

motor breath is a metallica song. i like metallica. well the old metallica. not the new crap. 8)

curious, Highway69 was asking me this same question not to long ago-good topic.

My name stems from high school days. A friend and I had this habit of being at the right place at the right time to help someone out. used to happen all the time by some weird coincidence. so we started saying it's like being a signpost on someone elses highway. Hence Highwaysignpost--you may not always need one but it's nice to know they're there :cool:

(I was wondering if Gozer was a Ghostbuster reference)

Don't ask me how it started but my friends in high school came up with names for everybody. Originally it was Snuffulufigus. The guy of Sesame Street. It got shortened to Snuffy.

I already had the Tennessee personalized license plate "ELKYSS"

It's a loooooooooooooong story.
8O

Oh look at how I made my text all differant colors. This will now distract you from what the story is.

Cold, It didn't work so what's the story.

Too easy... El Camino is Spanish for "The Highway"; and 69 was a very good year, as well as a playful number. ;) Not too much imagination required here :cool:

Mine is easy because i own a 83 choo choo ss elcamino.

I got dubbed "Alchemist" at work 'bout 15 years ago because i figured a way through a dead-end project so that it actually turned profit. Turned that "lead into gold"...so to speak. It kinna stuck. :lol:

The 427 refers to the big block in my CHEVelle and it's a 67. Don't worry I've owned nine El Caminos

I am the number 1 Earnhart fan. and i haven't found a website were someone else is using it so i have just stuck with it. and it sounds better then Cole

Always interesting, picked up Caveman driving truck over the road in the seventies, and then was part of the Caveman flight platoon in the Army flying Blackhawks with the 82nd, thus the callsign Caveman49 :)
It's not because my knuckles drag the ground, that I've got a sloped forehead and banana breath! :lol:

Lee

real simple here 82 El Camino SS with the F-41 suspension. :)

mine is big bear because im big and i reminded my friend who gave it to me, of a bear so he started calling me big bear and it has stuck for about 3 years so ive grown to like it
:D

Spoonplugger, a fisherman who follows Buck Perry's structure fishing guidelines.

i figured id get this before someone else took it.

well I guess the best way to say it is to spell it but im sure someone out there has figured this out by now
S for shut Y for your F for fu*king and piehole for mouth
it was differant and kinda says my personallity along with it. (ha ha) :lol:

I think that mine is pretty obvious 1) I am a female therefore getting gal 2) I own six El Caminos :onfire:

gr8ridejester

gr8 = great
ride = duh, my car
jester = high school nickname

the "gr8ride" part origionated from Primedia Automotive Group (www.gr8ride.com). I saw it a few years ago and just liked it. :P

Mine is scrubby, when I first enlisted in the US Coast Guard one of my shipmates gave me the nickname. Couldn't grow any hair on my face as a teenager except for that little patch of fuzz on the chin. Now it just grows wild LOL.

Wain,A sidestep of my midname Wayne. Sain,I leave that to those that know me to judge. Thus WAINSAIN !!! aol,yahoo sbcyahoo it all fit.

Allanova cus I drive a 65 nova wagon, when I'm not in my 81 elky.
L8R allanova

PROSOUTH, I've had it since I started online with my first computer.

It's pretty well as stated. I'm from Tennessee and I love the South. To be for something is to be PRO ( also a politically correct term)

The South has never been known for being politically correct about anything, so I became PRO South.

BTW, I've never been politically correct, lol Jim

If you see me it's obvious...

Sneaky Pete was my CB handle in my musician-touring the countryside-years. We had a truck and people van with radios to keep in touch. I resurrected it for this site. The license plate on my SS is "SS 3LP" which is a play on the SS 396 legend, as the car is my "SS", my company is "3L" and the "P" is me!

My Elky is an 83 and I am from New Hampshire. This is much more interesting than my name!

Cold, It didn't work so what's the story
Let's just say it has to do with someone I know and our absolute hatered for each other.

Cold, Is that all we are going to get? PROSOUTH, me too!

Cold, Is that all we are going to get?
Condensed version:
It was something that I was called after many heated exchanges. Then the person emailed me so I set up the screen name on my AOL account and emailed them back as that name they called me. They are the Newman to my Seinfeld,the Joker to my Batman,the ying to my yang.

I guess I'm a very up front person. I don't hide my feelings. So if I don't like you,I'm not going to BS you and pretend to be nice. I'll be very "cold" and unfriendly.

BTW,AOL wouldn't let me use the correct spelling so I dropped the A in the middle and it worked. So I'm not a spelling idiot just to clear that up. This is going back 3 or 4 years. So I just kept it.

Cold, Is that all we are going to get?I guess I'm a very up front person. I don't hide my feelings. So if I don't like you,I'm not going to BS you and pretend to be nice. I'll be very "cold" and unfriendly. Aw man! I thought maybe you had an ex that you screwed over royally. Makes for a much better story :P

"hillbilly" sounds funny in swedish, I'm not sure we've got any real
hillbillies though.

/ Oskar

Aw man! I thought maybe you had an ex that you screwed over royally. Makes for a much better story
I never said who the person was,what the situation was,what level of fighting there was,how it ended if indeed it ended. You don't get called a cold bastard if you go skiping through the tullips. Thus I am still an enigma. :P

OK Cold, that is enough story. Remind me not to piss you off. :)

My license plate is AFAST78, but i use jims78elky in the forums i go to..Because my name is jim..78 is the year of my elky! hard huh? lol

Tommy wins my favorite thread award. This thead has had an awsome response! :lol:

Will - Name
71283 - 07/12/1983 Birthdate
01 - Highschool grad.

82 - year my elky is from
ellie = the name of my elky :P
82Ellie

Mine comes from the movie "The Mexican" I like the way Brad Pitt slides behind the wheel, gives it a little twist and says "ElCameeeeeeeno!!!"

Just bought a 68' El Camino and I'm from the Lone Star State.

:cool:

My nickname comes from a very frustrating time trying to install and get to work Excites VP chat program a few years ago. After getting it to work I exclaimed "About F'en time!" Thought that would be a good nickname and shortened it to bout-time (boutime).

comes from my beloved Chocolate Labrador Retreiver- Hobie - who just turned 13 in October and is winding down fast

BIGRED = It's the BIGgest car I have owned and it's RED.

Bigred, Were did you get your Avatar?

72Sprint - so you won't be left wondering what vehicle I own. :)

Tommy, I made the avatar myself. I had some time over xmas and I built a 3d wireframe model of a 5th gen elky... here is a higer rez pic of my work so far...

http://www.mardens.com/misc/bigredsample.jpg

Man, I don't know near enough about the computer for something like that. Nice job.

Well, I own a 1959 El Camino (59 Elky) and I am a health care provider (Dr) in private practice.

Cheers http://elcaminocentral.com/users/dr59elky/GifFiles/cheers.gif

DocElky

I was going to use my name, but it was taken, was going to use 68 Elky, but it was taken, so I used the model of my 2001 Harley.

Earnhardt Fan here. (r.i.p.)

Big Three Fan


Also my name on every other message board

middle name

My boyfriend said when we started going together that I would never raise above slave girl status,so when I got my first computer I needed a screen name and couldn't think of one so I used slvgrl1 and I seem to use it for everything.

my name is steve and i have an 84 El camino, simple right?

I just had to bring this thread up again cause here lately we have been getting some off the wall site names. What's up?

First post but here goes:

Name, Timothy Patrick Lyons

Hence TPLyons.

Yay. :)

My nickname at school is moose cause i am an all state lineman and im huge the el camino is because i have a 79 el camino

No it has nothing to do with the movie "Hellraiser." It was a tribute to my first real collector car, (which I still own and love) a 1965 Buick Riviera, which has a Wildcat 445 "Nailhead" engine.

(Not that I didn't have several of what are NOW collector cars growing up. Back then they were called JUNK before I pulled them out of the salvage yard and resurrected them. 1955 Bel-Air 2 door sedan (1st Car), 1965 Mustang 2+2 fastback, 1966 GTO. And, no, I didn't have sense enough to hold on to any of these. :-( Actually the only one of these I wouldn't mind having back is the '66 GTO. Just something about those 4 speeds... :D )

I am a major blues music fan. My nickname comes from an old Muddy Waters song called "Got My Mojo Workin". Just shortened up to mojowrkn.

fordrod because it was the first street rod i ever built 1935 ford pick-up
with a grafted 68 nova sub frame and all chevy power

Dieselcamino77, I thougth everybody should know right at the beginning, to what a freak he's talking or not talking :)
I ride a 1977 diesel-conversion as a summer-daily-driver with at least 100 miles a day (thats why its a dies el camino!).
Greets from Old Europe.

My first name starts with C and my last name starts with a T, ceetee spelled out!

Mine came from a movie called "Powwow Highway". The main character, named Gilbert, bought a car from a used car dealer to go to a powwow in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. A wisecracking friend asked Gilbert if that was his $hitbox out front. Gilbert said, "That's my War Pony".

That's my '73....a real good Indian car!

MEATBALL is what my friends have called me for years. I guess because I'm Italian on both sides, pappa and momma.......... 8)

PunkRican - I like punk rock...actually most rock...and im Puerto Rican. i think the two flow nicely instead of Puerto Rican its Punk Rican.

eighty_five_el_camino, most names are self explanitory, I use something like mine so I can't be looked up in the phone book!!!

and for Michael in Mississippi, I used to run for B and S Trucking out of Moss Point, Ms. Pulled out of Laurel MANY times. Dad is from Pachuta.

F9zDark - I have had this name for quite a while because my one hobby was always computers and computer games. So I have used it for a long time because I like to play computer games online. I lead a clan for Medal of Honor Allied Assualt called Force NINE. Hence the F9z infront of Dark.

I have only recently, in the last 3 years or so, have had an interest in cars because now I can afford them :D. Owning crappy and old import cars as first ones isn't a good place to realize how much you enjoy working on cars now is it? Once I picked up my 65 Catalina and now my 77 El Camino I have been able to say that I like to work on cars. :cool:

I know this topic is really old, but there have been people with some strange names who joined long after this topic was gone. just curious about several names :tellme:. I guess mine is pretty obvious.

I think the name fits
http://elcaminocentral.com/albums/album385/driver_side.sized.jpghttp://elcaminocentral.com/albums/album385/Picture_003.sized.jpghttp://elcaminocentral.com/albums/album385/door_panel.sized.jpghttp://elcaminocentral.com/albums/album385/digital1.sized.jpgDon't you?

Who's gravediggin up old threads? Well, it's cool, this one I never saw, it's neat.

Maddening is simple really. I was playing online back when I first got into online gaming, in like what, '85? Needed a spooky game name to go along with all the killing, hunting and hiding that goes on in games, so this is what I came up with. I wasn't into any forums or anything else at the time, heck, I don't think there were really any forums really, just BBS's and usenet at the time. Anyhoo, when the time came to start joining forums in like '97 or '98 I just stuck with the name I knew. Pretty much everywhere I go I use this name. I really should try to be creative and pick a new name someday I guess, but meh... oh well.

Quintonsdusty is the formal name that I gave to a pure breed dog that I used to have. It was a combination of the community that we live in and the dog's nickname, "Dusty." My El Camino is about the same color as "Dusty." :)[img]

What a tell all thread! I have never been that creative with names M = Mike, Evang = first part of my long last name.

IT'S ALL HAS TO DO ABOUT BEER! THAT'S IF YOU DRINK 24oz"s AT A TIME. AND ABOUT THE FREE PART,WELL I GUESS I CAN DREAM!!!!!!!!!!!! :beer:

8) PaPa John came from one of my Grandsons. There was two of his Grandpas in the house when he ran in hollering PaPa (his name for grandpa). His mom asked him which one PaPa Casper or PaPa John, from that point on I became PaPa John to those three grandsons! So added the s to show possesion and the 77 for the Elky Year and thus PaPa Johns 77! :lol:

Mine is kinda obvious, and for those how missed the picture thread here is why my mullet (http://i1.tinypic.com/23lboyc.jpg)

http://elcamino.upiprime.com/forums/memberid.jpg

Any questions?

:banana2: In my schooldays one of my buddys discovered a likeness between me and Tigger (you know Tigger like Tigger in the hundred acre wood!) since I supposedly had a kinda jumpy walkingstyle across the schoolyard 8O !! He used Tigger as a nickname for me :screwy: and of course introduced me to everyone as Tigger! It stuck with me and I ,of course, didn't mind that since the chicks loved it :mrgreen: !!!

I've always loved El Caminos, so hence CaminoTigger :driving: !!


Anyway, it's Friday night here in Norway right now so........ CHEERS!!!! :beer:

Thanks go to Tommy, interesting old thread. I'd say most get it, but for those who don't. "Introduced with a 396 cubic inch displacement, bore and stroke measured 4.094 x 3.760 in. But the big news was valve arrangement. Instead of placing all the valves in a row as was done with it's small block predecessor, Chevy engineers CANTED both the intake and exhaust valves for improved breathing. Performance people lovingly refer to the big-block Chevy as the porcupine or rat motor. It was an instant winner" Tom Wilson.

I can't remember if I ever posted on this on way back when I was a regular...


A barking spider is another name for a fart, kinda like saying you stepped on a frog... you say damn those barking spiders

.... I'm "the Barking Spider"

Or you could say that I named myself after my dog. His name is Spider...and he barks....

Mine was a lack of inspiration, I hate coming up with names. I'm a girl and I have an el camino= lady camino. mabe I'll think of something better eventually :?

I've always had a fascination of the early big block cars, specifically the SS396 and SS427s. They were the biggest baddest cars you could go buy off the local dealer's lot and haul a$$ with. My car is a conversion, since GM didn't make an SS EL Camino until 68. The equivalent of that was the El Camino Custom is 64, which mine is. It included all the same options as the SS chevelle, but at that time SS cars could be had with any engine in the lineup, even a 230 6 cyl. Throughout the time I've had my car I have tried to do things as though it had been a factory BB car, with the addition of then-current touches like finned valve covers and an aftermarket intake. In the last 10 years I've been through a 396, 427 and most recently a 454. I still prefer the legend of the L-88 427, so I;ll stick with 64SS427.

Devin

I own an '80 Caballero and an '80 El Camino

Jerry

I have an unpronouncable last name: Kuczajda
I was christened with the nickname Kujo in basic training because no one could pronounce it, and that's what I 've been called for over 20 years in the military.
El = The, so I figure it's spanish for "The Kujo"

Heatsoaked: I live in YUMA ARIZONA-115 during the summer-DUH !!!!

"hillbilly" sounds funny in swedish, I'm not sure we've got any real
hillbillies though.

/ Oskar
I don't know i'm swedish-American and i'm wearing a flannel shirt w/ the sleeves ripped off and i have family up there.
and I live in Hobart IN and I've been growing a mullet since my sophmore year. I wonder about "Chief Smackaho"'s nickname
http://www.ricehatersclub.com/vbulletin/images/smilies/kissrnr.gif

I wonder about "Chief Smackaho"'s nickname
http://www.ricehatersclub.com/vbulletin/images/smilies/kissrnr.gif

I'm more curious about "Mrapii." Maybe they'll find their way to this thread

Im Snaggle Tooth for a reason....This picture might say it all....

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b356/snaggleto0th/andrew.jpg

Had a nasty crash racing BMX. My best friend started calling me Snaggle Tooth since then.

-Anduh

PS...That is not a photoshoped image...THE REAL DEAL

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so thats the ending to the tooth fairy story. i was gonna ask you about that snaggle tooth. and still thank you for that laugh.

Picked up my moniker while racing my Regal T-type----I overheard a dude in a 69 corvette say he wasn't coming back to that track anymore because he was tired of getting beat by that old coot (me) I had sent him home about seven or eight times at that point---so anyway I have been "that old coot" inside our group ever since so when I started joining these forums I just kept it..................Dan

For years now I have always had more than one El Camino. A few years back I bought an 83 SS that was shall we say "a little rough around the edges" I used that somewhat rough car for a couple of years.......Dont worry we will move that stuff with the ElDawgg.........It just stuck......Car is gone....but the name stuck :lol: :lol:

65 = 1965
Rice = import
Eater = Fast Elky

65RiceEater = Fast Elky that requires wood screws in the imports doors so they don't blow off when I dust them.

ur welcome for the laughs. But I do have a implanted tooth now so i dont have this GIANT gap.

-Anduh

My nick name speaks loud and clear. "SPEEDY"
I have a problem with driving the speed limit. 8O
I've been called Speedy by my friends as long as I can remember. :lol:

My 1970 lost the "El C" on the side trim, hence I'm left with an "amino". See my avatar!

CraigDaModeler......I am NOT a model......I build model cars! DaModeler, 'cause dats da way we talk down here in 'Nawlins, La.!!!


Here are a couple Camino models I built. It happens that I have another 68 on the bench right now. Hit a major building slump just before the hurricane event last year and am just now getting back to it. I'll be glad to post some photos of that Camino project if anyone is interested.


http://images7.fotki.com/v126/photos/4/48848/1611264/PC120033-vi.jpg