You Can Buy A Real-Life Replica Banshee From Grand Theft Auto On Ebay For $170,000
Huffington Post- If you see this bad ass sports car stopped at an intersection, you may open the door, punch its driver in the face, steal it and then crash it into the nearest building — as long as you’re playing Grand Theft Auto. A real-life, one-of-a-kind Banshee Bravado, made famous by the GTA series, is listed on eBay for a cool $170,000. A mom won it in a contest put on by GameStop, and while the “wonderfully fast and loud sports car turns heads,” she wants to sell it to fund a hit on a rival gang member her sons’ college degrees. It’s actually a Dodge Viper SRT-10, modified inside and out by Rockstar Games and West Coast Customs in California. If you want to own a piece of gaming history, and can scrounge together the money by June 5, please buy this, and bring it to New York so we can drive it.
OH FUCK YES. What’s the quickest way to make $170,000? I need to know right now because I need this car right now. And yeah, in the article they’re talking about the Banshee from GTA 4 but the only Banshee I’ll ever love was from GTA 3. GTA 3 was the first game where people (or at least me and my friends) realized, “Oh shit, open maps and being able to do whatever you want is the best thing ever.” We spent a disgusting amount of time doing missions but mostly just driving around causing chaos and trying to get 5 stars. Before that all GTA games were birds eye view. Still fun, but nothing like GTA 3. The Banshee was my 2nd favorite car in the entire game (#1: Mafia Sentinel. Duh). It was the fastest car in the game and it also had some of the worst handling in the history of video game cars which actually made it more fun. You’d be ripping around Liberty City, lose complete control going around a corner or up a hill and go flying bumper-first into a group of unsuspecting pedestrians. So much fun. If this right here doesn’t look familiar to you, then there’s a safe chance that you had a shitty childhood and should hate your parents:
Take an uzi or a baseball bat, blast through those glass windows and you were ready to roll. Such a great game. Such a great car.
PS- Did you ever play GTA 3 so much where it got to the point where instead of driving around, breaking every law, shooting anybody in sight and blowing up cars with rocket launchers that you decided it’d be fun to follow all of the rules and drive legally? Life is weird that way.