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Mine gets used for all 'car-related' sites .... from my racer ... one of the few Image formula fords made back in the '80s ... converted way out of its comfort zone for use on the Hillclimbs ... ran it for 15 years with some success until it met its demise in a 100 mph coming together with the Armco (and a field, and a farm sign 🙂) at Doune a couple of years back.



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My 24' sailing boat is called "Aroona" and aboriginal word which means "running water". I have been unable to find out which language group it comes from (Australia had about 250 different languages in about 13 language groups) and it can be found in place names in several parts of Australia.

Mine is from my surname Budd. Budster was a name used by my friends at work.

Bud
4/4 - Stanley

ps “Stanley” was a tribute to both HFS Morgan and Susie’s late father.

C'mon Graham; we all know it means "Go 4 Fudge".

sospan
Welsh for....saucepan.
Llanelli, my home town, was a big player in the metals industries. Steel, foundries, copper, and tinplate. Tinopolis is a nickname for the town as it was the world centre for tinplate and still has Trostre tinplate works ( Tata owned). Tin cans using Llanelli tinplate were used on Scott's fatal S Pole expedition, Felinfoel brewery in the town were the first to introduce canned beer ( screw top cans). There's a S4C ( welsh tv/radio) studio in the town named Tinopolis.
In the town we had the " stamping works" where they made saucepans. No longer there. Llanellj RFC had saucepans on the tops of their rugby posts. The posts are now moved to two locations, one near me on the reclaimed site of Duport Steel where I once worked, with a cut-out of Phil Bennet beneath it. The other is by Loughor bridge between Llanelli and Swansea. To remind the "Swansea Jacks" they are entering the wonderfull world of the Turks ( nickname for us). Great rivalry over the years!
I chose sospan out of other nicknames I had...
Turk, Welshcake, cockle eater and a couple unrepeatable.
9-3 ....I was there. No doctor's paper next day though, I was still "happy" after the party when we drank the pubs dry.

My parents gave me the name Heinrich, which is Henry in English. My childhood friends thought Heinrich was a bit long and old-fashioned, so they called me Heinz, similar to Enzo in Italian and I kept it.
When I started at TM 15 years ago, I typed Heinz just so and didn't expect it to work without adding more numbers or characters. It worked because the name is no longer very modern, even in Germany, and is not common in England. However, I was born in 1959, so I am Heinz 59 and not Heinz 57🙂

Damn, I've been rumbled!!

Max5 - nothing whatsoever to do with the Aeromax. I am a "Mac" and at the time SWMBO had an MX5, hence Max5!

Maybe I should call me Ruut5, as 4/4+4=5...... Ruut is just my call name, it is actually Rutgert (with a t at the end), in English Roger, or French Roger! They made it Ruut with a t at the end as a call name, but in The Netherlands, almost every Ruut is a Ruud, from Rudolf. There are very little Ruut's with a t in Holland, so I always say, Ruut (with a t) and then they pronounce or write down Bianchi the wrong way, mostly Bianci. And write Ruud. So I don't mind anymore, it separates the real friends and relatives from others. The Bianchi's came to Amsterdam in the 18th century, from Como, Italy, I used to think, was told by my grandfather, that it was Bolzano. So not sure. The Rutger's died young, so they changed it to Rutgert, adding a t, but that is in my mothers line. I am from 1957, so far, so good. Maybe I change it on the forum in Ruut 5 or Ruut 57? I hope to enjoy life and Morgans for a long time to follow!😍🙋🏼‍♂️

How about Gambalunghino Ian (little long legged)? There was a Guzzi factory 250 racer with this very name being half the capacity.