MyRide.com Celebrity Car Interview: Ashley Force

Last week in the MyRide parking lot we had a Dodge Viper. Its 600 horsepower engine made it one of the most powerful cars we’ve driven all year. NHRA Funny Car pro Ashley Force’s Castrol GTX Ford has 8,000 horsepower. If her car could theoretically maintain its top speed of 330 mph over an extended period of time, Ashley Force could make it from Los Angeles to San Francisco in just over an hour. That said, her actual races rarely last more than 4.9 seconds; take that Michael Phelps. Not only has Ashley become quite accomplished racing for her father’s team, John Force Racing, but she has also gained much attention off the drag strip after two seasons starring on A&E Network’s Driving Force. Last year AOL even crowned her the “Hottest Athlete in Sports” (and yes that list included Amanda Beard, Maria Sharapova, and Danica Patrick). With that, another MyRide With.

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MyRide.com Celebrity Car Interview: Dallas Friday

Dallas Friday Airlines, routine flight

X Games Champion, World Champion, U.S. Open Champion, ESPY Awards: Best Female Action Sports Athlete of the Year…should we continue? We could, because when it comes to wakeboarding, there are very few things Red Bull pro athlete Dallas Friday hasn’t conquered. How about the winningest female wakeboarder in history? Yeah, that would be Dallas Friday too. But what about when Dallas isn’t out competing on her own signature O’Brien wakeboard? It turns out her board isn’t the only customized ride she has. With that, another MyRide With.

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Photocredit: (c)Bill Doster/Red Bull Photofiles

MyRide.com Celebrity Car Interview: Courtney Hansen

Courtney Hansen in her Aston Martin DB9

We’d be willing to bet that very few alumni of FHM Magazine’s “100 Sexiest Women in the World” have also been featured with their cars in DUB Magazine, and we would almost guarantee that Courtney Hansen is the only one in that population that was once called by Hot Rod Magazine “the female face of hot rodding.” Intrigued? So were we. Courtney is a former co-host of TLC’s Overhaulin’, and is the current host of Spike TV’s PowerBlock every Saturday and Sunday. Courtney has a new show on Spike TV premiering on August 17th called Great Builds, and she was also a stunt car driver in The Dark Knight. Okay, we made up the part about being a stunt car driver, but that’s probably the only thing that could make Courtney Hansen any cooler. With that, another MyRide With. Continue…

MyRide.com Celebrity Car Interview: Taylor Dent, Pro Tennis Player

Pro tennis player Taylor Dent has a Ferrari-fast serve that’s been clocked at 151 mph (keep in mind Andy Roddick holds the record at 155). He holds four ATP singles titles and played on the U.S. tennis team at the 2004 Olympics. At one point, Dent was ranked #21 in the world, and he has also made top showings at both the U.S. Open and Wimbledon. With that, another MyRide With. Continue…

MyRide.com Celebrity Car Interview: Nick Dompierre, Pro Skateboarder

Red Bull pro-athlete Nick Dompierre is just as comfortable performing an ollie on his skateboard for the cover of Thrasher Magazine as he is blasting off tire-smoking burnouts at the drag strip. In our experience, this makes perfect sense. Action sports athletes are adrenaline junkies no matter what the medium, and when that need for adrenaline fuels a passion for cars too, well, you know we need to do a MyRide With.

Raised in Massachusetts, Nick took on skateboarding seriously at a young age. By the age of 16, Nick had a major sponsor, and by 19, he was nominated for Transworld SKATEboarding’s 2006 Street Skater of the Year. In his words, “I’ll skate any contest,” and after having watched some of his footage on YouTube, we believe it. Throw on your skateboard kicks for another MyRide With. Continue…

Hulk Hogan: Caption This!

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There is just too much going on in this photo not to run a Caption This. Give me your best caption and if it wins I will mail you a MyRide t-shirt not signed by Hulk Hogan. Here’s mine:

“My kids clearly can’t drive so I’m going to take my chances and walk home.”

Got a better one?

David Beckham in his new Jeep Wrangler

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The other day I noted that, “when it comes to new open-air trucks there is really only one way to head to the beach and that’s in a Jeep Wrangler.” David Beckham knows what’s up and just bought one himself. He gave it the Beckham treatment (blacking out everything, something he does to most all of his cars) and has been seen rolling through SoCal in it over the past couple days. For someone raised in Britain he has always shown a strange affinity for American trucks (Ford F-150, Lincoln Navigator, Cadillac Escalade, and Hummer H2 to name a few).

Baby this ride? I’ll do nothing of the sort.

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Some people restore cars only to baby them. These people keep their cars in hermetically-sealed plastic bubbles. They drive them only on days where the historical precipitation has averaged 5% or less for the past 32 years. They own cars that secretly cry for the day they were born on to some dealer lot in Scranton, PA and picked up by a James Dean-wannabe teenager who took it drag racing that night. Well not Rob Dyrdek. No, Rob restores a ‘69 Chevrolet Camaro and then takes it to the track drifting. He revs that engine till it screams. And damnit it Rob smokes those tires. Here’s a CCP nod to Rob Dyrdek for keeping it real.

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Brush up on your Camaro history here.

Better than curbside drop-off? Runway pickup.

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When David Beckham and co. recently landed at an airport in France, a brand new Mercedes-Benz S-Class was waiting for them on the runway. The last time I took a plane I was greeted by a missing suitcase. Mom, why did I stop playing soccer again? Oh, that’s right, because I was awful.

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From soccer stars to diplomats, the S-Class is the jam when it comes to international travel. From what I’ve noticed it is also a staple of the Orange County retiree population. Check it out.

The Parade on ESPN.com!

To my surprise, Celebrity Car Parade was featured on ESPN.com in their automotive section. We’ve come a long way since that first post and there’s much more to come!

If you are still coming back to this page, note post below (i.e. the Parade has moved).
You can now find the daily Parade on MyRide by going to celebritycarparade.com

Find out tomorrow why Paris is in trouble with the law again…er…kind of.

-E