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 byHot 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 at 10am ET/PT called Great Builds (more below), and she was also a stunt car driver on the set of 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.

MyRide: What was your very first car and a favorite memory of it?

Courtney Hansen: Okay, my very first car—actually my dad had to drive it for a while first because I wasn’t old enough to drive it—was a [Chevrolet] Camaro Z28. Was it ’92? Can’t even remember the frickin’ year, but it was a Z28 Camaro, convertible, Heritage Edition. I loved that car! I then traded it in for a BMW 325i that I bought with hard earned modeling and other work money.

My favorite memory of [the Camaro] I have is actually my favorite memory I have in a car, and also the scariest memory to date. I was cruising, finally able to drive it, 16 years old, and I was at the wheel with a friend of mine. It was raining in Florida because it rains in the summertime. When we left tennis practice it starts pouring rain and we were cruising back roads. I can’t remember if I intended to do a donut or if I did it accidentally, but we did a 360 and I ended up just narrowly escaping hitting this tree head on. Literally the nose of the car was touching the tree trunk, and how we came to a halt right there, I mean, it was by the grace of God, because we could have been seriously injured or killed. I was trying to see what it could do, and thankfully it didn’t end up a disastrous situation.

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