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  • Well, they also refer to some as 'muscle,' so they must be women weight lifters!
  • Typically guys do that, but...I think it's a holdover from German, where (classically) transportation "vehicles" - such as SHIPS, for example - were (and still are in English and German) identified as "she" and (indeed) in German all "ships" are feminine in gender (as is also the case in English, in fact properly one always uses the feminine pronoun when referring to a ship). Note that in French (the other primary influential language in English), "ship" has a masculine gender.
  • Why not?
  • cause they love em
  • High maintenance.
  • It's done out of pride and emotional connections. Whatever name a vehicle is called, it is very personal to the owner.
    • 11stevo73
      You think it might be so a wood ducks will pay lots of money for a worn out old dunger?
    • Jenny's Gone On Vacation
      Absolutely, although an antique car must be in original condition, and not butchered.

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