Country Music Artist Shelby Lynne

Quick Stats: Shelby Lynne Grammy award winner
Daily Driver: 2005 Jeep Wrangler (Shelby's rating 8.5 on a scale of 1 to 10)
Favorite road trip: Los Angeles to Vegas
Car she learned to drive in: 1969 Nova
First car bought: 1967 Chevrolet Camaro

Grammy award winning singer/songwriter Shelby Lynne enjoys cars like she enjoys her guitars and has owned more cars than she can remember.

"They're kind of like guitars to me - you just enjoy them," she said. "I have friends that have cool guitar collections and they go, "I'm not going to play it.' I'm going, 'Well, why the hell do you have it? You want to look at it?' I'm the same way about cars - drive them, have fun, when you get tired of them, turn them in. They're not some precious jewels. They're cars and guitars. Have fun with them and then get something else."

She starts to list them and realizes how many cars she owned. "I just realized that talking to you, I'm going damn! If I had to count them all I bet I couldn't. I've had a car since I was old enough to drive."

Her past cars include an old 1979 Jeep CJ, which she paid $3,000 for and felt she got ripped off, since she sold it six months later for $1,500. She's had both a BMW 3 series and 7 series, which she says, "it's heavy, it's a big car, but it still drives a little bit like a sports car. It's just got that tight to the ground feel."

The best car Lynne has owned was when she has 18 she had a 1984 two-toned black and gold Pontiac Grand Prix, which "would just fly," she said. "I loved it, loved it. It was in my wild time of driving. I would drive that thing pedal to the medal all day long. Just bad ass. I would drive from Monroe to Jackson, Alabama in 45 minutes. Just hauling. You know, being a stupid young 'un. Never ever did she hiccup once."

Lynne's worst car was a maroon 1984 Mazda 626 she bought in 1987, which was reliable, but she said, "I just felt like an idiot driving it, I thought, this is not me."

Lynne says she doesn't buy a car unless she has cash. "I like paying cash for my cars," she says. "You never get your money out of the vehicle. Ever. Ever, ever, ever."

Growing up in rural south Alabama, Lynne learned to drive on her dad's 1976 Ford pick up with a "three on the tree" gear shifter, when she could barely touch the clutch.

"I've been driving since I was nine years old. I grew up in the country so we had plenty of places to drive without having to get on the road," Lynne explains. "I wanted to drive so bad. I was driving cars on the road way before I got my driver's license, that's what you do when you're from the South. You put it off as long as you can and then finally you have to break down and get a license because you need to go get a job. It's just a pain in the ass, who wants to go to DMV?"