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‘You couldn’t tell me anything about it because I thought it was the coolest thing ever,’ Williams says of his black scooter on this week’s episode. By Mawuse Ziegbe Snooki appears on “When I Was 17” Photo: MTV News Although Snooki, James Van Der Beek and Pharrell Williams took very different journeys growing up, when they were teenagers, each had memorable experiences driving around in their rides of choice. “Jersey Shore” starlet Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi reveals in the latest episode of “When I Was 17” that her boy craziness nearly ended her life. The reality party girl opened up about how she lost control of a four-wheeler after checking out an eye-catching, shirtless high school senior. “I noticed that I’m going into this bank [at] 20 miles per hour [and] ran into the bank. The four-wheeler tumbled three times,” Snooki recalled. “My girlfriend jumped off [and] skinned her knee. You could see her knee bone, and I got stuck under the four-wheeler. I couldn’t move anything just because I looked at this boy because his shirt was off.” Although not as dangerous as Snooki’s accidental off-roading, super-producer Pharrell Williams’ teenage shenanigans also involved tooling around on a beloved ride. “My scooter was a Honda Elite and it was black,” Pharrell explained. “You couldn’t tell me anything about it because I thought it was the coolest thing ever.” Longtime Virginia homey Pusha T (of rap duo Clipse) also remembered riding around with Williams. “He’d come and pick me up on this scooter, and we’d ride everywhere throughout the city.” Like Williams, actor James Van Der Beek remembered an attachment to a very treasured — if raggedy — ride when he was 17. “With the money I had made doing theater, I purchased, for $800, a 1986, candy-apple-red Hyundai Excel,” Van Der Beek said. “It had its own anti-theft device, which was that in order to start it, you had to pump the gas vigorously and do that at least three times,” the actor continued. “When I would turn corners, I would put my foot on the clutch, and if I didn’t rev the gas … it would stall.” “When I Was 17” airs Saturdays at 11 a.m. on MTV. Related Videos When I Was 17 | Ep. 10 | Next On When I Was 17 | Ep. 10 | Deleted Scenes Related Photos When I Was 17 | Snooki When I Was 17 | James Van Der Beek When I Was 17 | Ep. 10 | Celebrity Photo Flashback

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Snooki, Pharrell Williams, James Van Der Beek Share Their Teen Experiences On ‘When I Was 17’