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Yes, but it isn’t very original…ours is a Winnebago and we call it “the Winnie” so I don’t know if that truly counts as a nickname.
We call our MH by my wife’s nickname Pinky, Pinky’s Paradise.
We had both had very serious health issues and survived just before we bought our motorhome. It was by the Grace of God that we were healthy again so we call our motorhome Gracie.
Fern Freelancer and I have traveled many happy miles together. Fern is short for the German word fernweh, which roughly translated means wanderlust.
We have a Fleetwood, the obvious choice of name was Mac.
The kids named our Georgetown,(Molly). I just go with it. I was out numbered 5 to 1.
We have named our Synergy “RV’r” – we pronounce it “River” … of course our tow is “Brook”
We named our brand new 5th wheel Bentley…. the last name of the dealer we bought it from; and for us it was a huge upgrade from what we’ve owned in the past, much older and well used RV models, it was like going from a Yugo to a Bentley.
Wandering Wanda as we have been traversing the US for 3 years.
Before that the trailer was Pull Along Polly
And the class C was Ruby because we bought it on our 40th anniversery
Simply refer to it as the little camper since we also have a 41 ft fiver.
I just call it the Beast. The DW calls it Beauty Beast. Don’t see the beauty in a 35 ‘ motor home.
Of course! Our lake house is called “Somewhere “, our pontoon is called “Somewhere Else”, and our camper is called “Everywhere”!
Our GD Solitude is affectionately named Loretta.
Yes most of the time it’s called a piece of crap
Tiffy, Jr.
2019 Tiffin RED 37PA
The Magic Bus. A tribute to a VW Microbus that a friend owned decades ago. It took us into countless ridiculous and thoroughly stupid adventures. We used to say it ran on Busch beer because of the empties that were all over the inside. The VW’s name, of course, was a tribute to the Who song. “Every day I get in the que….”
Our 18 year old Mountain Aire was lovingly called Old Faithful.
We called our “Dutch Star” the Wandering Star after the Lee Marvin song in the movie Paint your Wagon.
“Daisy” as in we’re Driving Miss Daisy.
We have an GD Imagine 2500RL that I lovingly call Imogene.
Our last name dictates our rig’s name. We’re Hutchins, so our first “big rig” 5’er became The Hutch. We’ve since graduated to a Coach, which is The Hutch II.
We call our Tiffin Allegro “Open Road” Opie .
We call ours Poppy Gasalot. One trip across the country it had a bad valve and was backfiring often hence the “Poppy”. Gasalot is self explanatory.
Yes, ours is Oscar named after the man we bought it from. The family and friends know that when we are talking about Oscar this or Oscar that that it is the motorhome we are talking about.
CMore. See More National Parks. See More of this beautiful country.
Our last name is Bates so of course our TT is The Bates Motel.
We just call our Montana fiver the Montana. Simple. :-/
Named ours Murphy. It keeps living up to its name.
Too funny! :-))) Also sad but true.
We named our Foretravel “Maxine” !
Our current rig, a 43′ Newmar Mountain Aire towing a full sized pickup, is the largest we’ve had. We refer to it as “The Beast.”
“Big Bear”. We got our new Newmar the year we took it to Alaska. If I knew how to upload pix I would send one of Big Bear.
We drove to Indiana to get our Coachmen Mirada, intending to tow the car behind it after the break-in miles. Sadly, we had a mis-matched light cable, so I followed it for 1500 miles. That many miles following the Dalmation logo led to it being “The Spotted Dog”.
We call ours Elvis.
We call our Class B (an Entegra Ethos) Queen Bee and sometimes VANessa
Yes, I named my motorhome Daisy and my car Sweet Pea, my birth month flowers.
“The Beast”
Miss Ruth Brown after a song “Nobody’s business but my own” by BB King.
I have a truck camper. The camper part I call the “Hootch”, which what we called our living quarters in Vietnam, fifty years ago. My pickup that hauls the Hootch is called the Beast.
BTW to “Bull”. Looks like you gave yourself a ‘cute’ name. lol Is that short for “BullCrap”?
After our first big trip west from Pennsylvania through Oklahoma to Arizona, we started calling our Class C the “Rattle Trap”. Almost every piece of trim inside fell off and the bedroom door smashed a hole in the paneling across from it. That is before the Door track fell off. It spent 3 months at our local RV repair shop waiting for parts and a new wall panel. I have since replaced all the nails/staples with drywall screws. But she is still the Rattle Trap to us.
Our present Class A DP is called the “LOOSE CABOOSE II”. We are model train and Narrow Gauge RR fans riding many different Narrow Gauge RR’s from Georgia to Alaska, Massachusetts to Arizona and lots in between. Stay well, Stay safe
I do call our coach Chaumière, but it is hardly what I would call a “Nick Name”. It is her name now. Being from a long line of watermen, things have names of their very own. When the coach was acquired, we thought about her for a while before she became Chaumière (Say “Show Me Air” Fr. a cottage) and it fit so well that there was no discussion.
We don’t use a nickname but only because we haven’t found the right one yet.
No, but when she’s being finicky I definitely talk to her, calling her ‘Big Girl’.
We refer to our Holiday Rambler Endeavor as “Holly” and our green HyundaI toad as “Kermit.”
My G/F named our motorhome “The Major”
Ours is Firefly. If you’re familiar with the show, there was always something wrong with Serenity…same with ours. 😉
Sometimes ##%&**! Usually “The Bus”.
Ours is called ‘the van’. Now mind you it is a 38′ DP, but its been ‘the van’ since day 2 or 3 🙂
Oh yes, it is our “Recreational Command Vehicle”, being both Retired Military and Police Officer, it just seemed appropriate😀🇺🇸
I am a fan of the tv show NCIS so naturally my Mallard is “Duck, or Ducky”.
We started with a 19 ft Coachman Cadet that was too small to be called a motorhome,so we called it ” the Moho” No matter the size now we always have a Moho.
When we purchased our F-350, the first time my husband said, “This thing’s a beast!” It followed that our 5th wheel with full body paint had to be called “Beauty.”
We call our motorhome “Winnie” because if we say anything even close to Mercedes, “Mercedes” (the M-B equivalent of Siri or Alexa) asks “How can I help you? “
Yeah, I call it “The Trailer.” Hahahaha!
My 6 year old granddaughter calls me BeeBee and she helps me set up camp. She is the worker bee and I’m the queen bee and we RV in the “BeeBee Hive.” I have a “save the pollinators” license plate: BBHIVE. The Jeep is the BBTOAD.
My RV’s name is Maggie. Here’s the story. The only place I could find a truck to tow my RV was in Houston, TX (I live in the DFW area). My g-g-g-g-grandfather was practically best friends with Sam Houston (my g-g-g-grandfather’s name was Samuel Houston Terrell after a request from Sam himself). I named the truck Sam. About a month later, I bought the RV. Sam Houston’s last wife was Margaret, so the RV was named Maggie.
I said NO to a nickname but always refer to mine as “HER”! Does anyone want to guess why???
My 2015 Dynamax DX3-37RB is a TRUE Super-C diesel puller (as opposed to the F350 / F450 “wanna be’s). From the front, it looks like an over the road Semi. My nickname for it is “FrED” which stands for “Front End Diesel”.
Vera View, a Winnebago View, and Towbi Toad.
My boss decided that we should name our RV when she learned that we’d bought one. My wife initially refused, but over the next 3 years changed her mind. Eventually my wife decided to call our RV Reva, which is a variation on the model name — Revolution. So, we travel in Reva the Revolution, or simply Reva.
I knicknamed our rig, “The Beast”!
It’s a 1999 Fleetwood Southwind. It has over 115,000 miles on it, and is starting to break down. We hobbled home from a long summer trip. Starting to look for a Class C!
Dink. Means love. At least that is what the scrabble dictionary says it means. We were playing scrabble one nite, just me, my mother and my daughter at the campsite and she looked up a word. Dink. We found out it was a word and we laughed at this one. Now that my mother is gone we continue to use the word dink when we think of her. Hard to go camping without her and she loved our trailer and her little bunk bed.
Since we couldn’t afford a land-based beach house, we bought a mobile one. So we affectionately call ours the “Beach House”.
Motorhome is “Hazel”… toad is “Mr. B”…