Quick Stats: Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, Run DMC - Motor Trend
McDaniels makes sure he takes good care of his F-150 so that it stays looking new. “The crazy thing is I’ve got an ’09 F-150 that I keep spanking clean,” he says. “Everybody wants to buy it. People come up to me and say, ‘What year is that — 2015. ’ And I go, ‘No, it’s an ’09,’ and they go, ‘Get the hell out of here. When I take it back for service, the service people tell me every time I go back, ‘Damn, D, you keep this car clean. ” He recalls driving his F-150 for an interview at a radio station with other rappers and turning heads with his Ford. “All the other rappers were pulling up in sports cars, Porsches, Bentleys, and Phantoms,” he says. “When it came up for me to pull up and park, I pull it up, a pickup truck, and all the people on the street came over to my truck, looking at it like it was the star. A lot of people have pickups, but each pickup truck is an individual representation of the people that buy them. That’s what I like about it. ” “They always say,” he continues, “ ‘Yo D, take a picture with the Lambo. Black Ford pickup truck — Platinum or Limited or Harley Davidson. ” McDaniels chose the Platinum because he didn’t want the name of another brand, Harley-Davidson, on it. “But it looks nice,” he says. “If I could get the Harley and take the Harley off — nothing against. Source: www.motortrend.com
