What are some of your favorite race car nicknames or slogans that you have seen on a race car.
Being a Ray Hendrick fan, I always remember "Little Bo Hawg" on the white LMS Nova, The late model Camaro modified of, I think it was Bob Melnick, that was the "Atasumacamaro" and one of my all-time favorites, The #0 "Honey Bear" coupe of Perk Brown.
Probably doesn't count for this discussion, but I've always like "The Flinstone Flyer"
Probably my all time favorite was in 1973 when Ed Howe from Beaverton, Michigan build 2 green Camaro's. They were numbered 60 and 61and driven by Ed Howe and Tommy Maier. The 60 car was painted to read 6One and the 61 car was 6o1ng...known as Going and Gone at the track. Those cars won 73 races between then in 1973 (25 by Howe and 48 by Maier). Also, because Ed was known for his green race cars, he became known as the Green Hornet and Tommy was known as Kato.
In 1970, Ed Howe built a 510 cubic inch aluminum block engine known as "Big Herman" that he ran in a Chevelle with a torsion bar suspension. Car and engine were banned for 1971. Ah, the good old days!
Picture of Ed Howe's Go1ng and GOne Camaro's. Previously uploaded on Racers Reunion by Paul Fey. 61 driven by Tommy Maier and 60 driven by Ed Howe.
The 1980 Daytona 500 and this "Gray Ghost" is a great story. I have had the pleasure to record both Buddy Baker and Waddell Wilson's version of this classic,
I'll dig 'em up, Jim and post them. The actually may be here somewhere. I know they are also in the radio archives...somewhere..lol.
I love the way Waddell recounts the last (gas n go) pit stop as he was trying to time the fueling while holding onto Buddy's uniform...didn't work. Lead Foot left early but still had enough fuel...as y'all know...to win.
Speaking of Parnelli, how about the "Whooshmobile" from 1967
Favorite all-time saying would definitely be the "UGH, CONSTIPATED, Can't Pass a Thing" on the rear deck of Ray Hendrick's #11 Modifieds (barely visible in a recent photo posting by Andy Towler). Many of Ray's modifieds used to also have a Budweiser tap as a hood ornament. Winning those grandfather clocks of Clay Earles' at Martinsville was appropriate for Ray, whose favorite saying after a win was, "I really cleaned their clock!"
On his six cylinder car at Wilson County Speedway,J.E. Beard had painted on the rear deck a mule with a hind legraised and a cartoon cloud behind it's rear end that said, "Bad Air!"
Al Grinnan had a Chevelle LMS #00 at Southside Speedway owned by Coleman Mann of Powhatan, VA that had agorilla painted on each of its two frontquarter panels. The name"Sonny", with an arrow was painted beside each gorilla, referring to Sonny Hutchins in the Zervakis #01 LMS who had several beating & banging encounters with Al. This was particularly funny since Al had driven a modified owned by Sonny while Sonny drove modifieds for Junie Donlavey.
One of the Langley Field modified boys used to have "Eight Sticks of Dynamite" painted on his fuel injected modified. Can't remember who, though.
Somewhere in the Hall of Fame or Hall of Shame belong's the famed "humpbacked" #26 1966 "Yellow Banana" Ford "crafted" by Junior Johnson.
There was an article about car nicknames, I will post it here. I remembered Rusty only named a car after it won a race and when I searched the internet I found the rest of the story...
The number stenciled on the dashboard of Ryan Newman's car means one thing: That car has yet to win.
In fact, the garage at Penske Racing South is full of numbered cars. That means they haven't won, either.
Car owner Roger Penske started a tradition years ago of giving cars nicknames, but only after they win. A car with a name has character. It has history. It has a proven track record.
When they come off the assembly line, they're given numbers. Jimmie Johnson's car in last Sunday's Coca-Cola 600 was 48- 363. That means it was the 363rd car produced at Hendrick Motorsports since that racing organization opened its doors in 1984. But unlike Newman, Johnson's car always will be 48-363. No matter how many times it may take Johnson to Victory Lane, the Hendrick team doesn't want to get too personal with their cars.
Others feel a nickname creates a deeper connection between man and machine.
"Usually the driver has the input on the naming of it," Newman said. "When Matt (Borland) was crew chief, he named a couple of them. It's all about the situation. We actually had a car that hadn't won, but it ran so good and it should have won so many times, we called it 'Patches' because it had been patched up so many times. It hauled the mail whenever we took it to the track.
"It's a Penske tradition."
The first car Newman named was "Olive Oyl," because that was his wife's nickname. The team stuck with the Popeye theme by naming another car "Poopdeck Pappy" after Popeye's father, as well as "Popeye" himself.
"Another one of my favorites was 'Thumper.' That was the Busch car I won my first Busch race with," Newman said. "It was 'Thumper' because it put the hammer down."
Some of Newman's other cars were named "Goldie Locks," "Silver Locks," "Faith" and "Patience."
Rusty Wallace's favorite cars at Penske were "Captain," "The Predator" and "Midnight." Darrell Waltrip's favorite car was called "Big Bertha." It wasn't easy, but Davey Allison learned to love "Fido." Allison didn't like "Fido" at first and his team played on that. Allison called it "Fido" because it drove like a dog, and his team had fun by putting a dog collar and dog tag in it after making repairs.
Allison won with it, and it became one of his favorites in the Robert Yates Racing stables.
Allison's favorite cars, however, had a spectacular demise. "James Bond 007" was destroyed at the finish line in a crash with Kyle Petty in the 1992 Nextel All-Star Challenge. "James Bond 007" finished on its roof; Allison celebrated in the emergency room of Carolinas Medical Center.
Not all nicknames are nice. Johnny Sauter said he's used a lot of names for his car, and most of them included profane names of is cars with "Son of a ..."
"I've had a lot of cars that have won races, but I've never named one," Sauter said. "I've called race cars names, but I've never named one. I don't know what makes a good car other than it will drive like you want it to. Then there's cars no matter what you do to it, they don't run any good."
One of the most famous nicknames was "Grover" for a Pontiac driven by Kyle Petty. Car owner Felix Sabates taped a $1,000 bill featuring president Grover Cleveland to the dashboard to entice Petty to drive hard.
Dale Jarrett once called a car "Lawnmower" because he could run so close to the grass along the track apron.
Jeff Green hasn't given a car a name since he won the Busch Series championship in 2000. After thinking about it, he's now considering about doing it again since he hasn't won since moving up to the Nextel Cup Series in 2002.
"I got so many cars, it's hard to keep up with them," Green said of his current ride at Haas CNC Racing. "We had a car in Busch, back in the Nesquik days, we called 'Bonus.' The guys got a bonus because every time we run it, it seemed like we were in the top five. We ran that car to death. Now, they're all by number. I've got 20-something cars so it's hard to come up with names.
"But thinking about it, maybe we should start thinking about it. We had a lot of success when we did."
The Petty Plymouths of 1960 were "Thumper I, Thumper II, and so on". In 1961 they were "the Blue Angels". In 1962 they were "Ketcem I, Ketcem II, so on"
The '55 Chevy Sportsman #11we ran at Wilson County Speedway in 1973-1974 owned and driven by Danny Lee used to carry the phrase, "BUILT BY HARD CASH" on a front fender.
Only to point out the tradition of naming cars will probably never die. One of the Dodge prototype trucks I worked on with Ronnie Denton at Granddaddy Racing was called "windy" because it had spent so much time in the wind tunnel.
The late Dickey Lee Whitehead who was my car chief insisted on naming our cars "Ole Yeller 1 & 2". It stuck. The first car was never named by us...though it was called a name ("f ing 52") I can't post here. 
Left to right Dickey Lee Whitehead, Michael (Fastco) Lathrop, Paul Lewis, an ex-wife (mine), yours truly, and Terry (Ironhead) Gillenwater...and of course out in front "Ole Yeller II".
Favorite all-time saying would definitely be the "UGH, CONSTIPATED, Can't Pass a Thing" on the rear deck of Ray Hendrick's #11 Modifieds (barely visible in a recent photo posting by Andy Towler).
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-UN- CONSTIPATED, CAN'T PASS A THING Race Car
The sign on back of this Flying 11 red race car was a big joke on his racing competitors.
RayHendrickpassed whole lot of race cars and won whole lot of races (Modified and Sportsman) (trophies) with this red race car, especially at his home area race tracks.
This Flying 11 red race car was sponsor by Ralph Mills Wheel Alignment.
Lets don't forget "Bertha", Darrells favorite.
