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Originally posted by Olden Days
one of my memories that never dies is riding next to my Dad as a little boy in his 48 chevy pickup. When ever he was pulling a heavy load or a steep hill he would reach out and pat the dash a couple of times and say " atta girl Nellie You can do it" and look at me with a grin and a wink. So to answer the question, All my trucks are Nellie 
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When faced with a similar situation, my grandfather, my father, and now I will put our hand on the dash and tell our young passengers to "Push! Push hard!" My father also has a tendency to go into a "Whoa horse!" Yosemite Sam routine when braking hard. He also had/has a rather nasty habit of waiting until his passenger (usually me) had just fallen asleep and then smacking the vinyl bench seat with all of his might and yelling, "Bang!"
Both my grandfather and my father's old trucks are nicknamed "Old Blue" and I call mine that more often than not.