Ryan's Car

You can now own the car that Ryan Davis drove.

Do some hot brodies in a mall parking lot like the man would have wanted.

Originally tweeted by Ryan's father.

Man, ya boy was riding clean.

I really don't know what to feel about this. I'd be crying uncontrollably every time I'm driving to the local Walmart in that car.

This is beyond weird. Were you actually seeking this out? I'm a little creeped out by the -

Ride With The Legend - Owned By @Taswell

Owned and driven by the late great @taswell

But whatever, I don't know, this is all kinds of weird.

his dad tweeted it I believe

Is it weird that this makes me kind of uncomfortable? Not in a "People are crazy for wanting his car just because its his" way, I get wanting it, but... I dunno, it just feels weird.

Do we know who it is that's putting it up for sale?

father (his twitter handle is mauleace or something)

@turambar: Ryan's father tweeted it, so I presume him.

Uh...

Its below kelley blue book value, so if you want a nice full sized car, go for it.

thats.....a bit weird..........thats its even on ebay......

sweet car though.

Alright, that makes it better.

if folks are interested? ryan's father also apparently put up ryan's other car for sale

https://twitter.com/mauleace/status/386586394715385856

I don't want to be cynical, but is this gonna turn into his dad selling off stuff Ryan owned and saying "own a part of the legend" everytime? I really hope not...

Somehow this feels like something Ryan would do himself if he faked his own death.

100% seller rating, not bad.

A father selling off his dead sons property and YOU find it weird? Have a little respect christ

Ryan's Dad doing right by him in the advertising department, thumbs up for the dumb.

Let's all chip in and then smash it up with baseball bats. It's what Ryan would have wanted.

Someone start a kickstarter.

Nothing weird about a dad selling his sons belongings that no one would want in the family because of emotional ties, but putting in a tagline "own part of the legend" is a bit "ehhh" ..

it's his right to do whatever he wants with it though,

This is not creepy at all.

(The forum thread, not the actual sale).

50/50 on peeing on it? (Did they do that, or am I totally misremembering now?)

That ford Exploder for $750 isn't too bad. I don't know if I would survive the 3 1/2 hour drive home. Without.. you know... exploding. I'd imagine also the ghost of Ryan appearing and jerking the wheel into oncoming traffic.

Yeah... That was my immediate reaction too. I'm sure he has the best of intentions, though, and probably doesn't have much perspective of Giant Bomb as a whole besides the outpouring of love after Ryan passed away. Like, whenever the staff talks about their parents, the parents don't seem to watch any of the content or listen to any of the podcast. I'm assuming.

I guess whatever a person has to do to get rid of it.

I'm lazy and didn't want to bother trying to sell it myself, so I sold my POS Saturn to Carmax for a couple thousand dollars. It was more than I thought I was going to get.

I'm currently shopping for a car. Unfortunately, I live in New Jersey.

oh I don't know, the local Petaluma paper called them about him, and I'm sure he noticed how much interest he was getting when he was tweeting ryan's early pictures and oh boy I just made myself sad again.

But honestly, Ryan was the 4th most googled thing on that day, I'm sure he's at least partially aware.

Only if we then pee on it then throw the remains onto Jeff's lawn.

Pretty sure they said they peed on a computer, but i might be misremembering that...

@animasta: Of course, that's what I meant. I was purely referring to everyone's parents possibly not being die-hard fans of their kid's work. Like, I don't think they were counting down to TNT every week or whatever (maybe?). Whenever Jeff or Patrick or whoever talks about their family, they always describe the family referring to their work as that "Internet thing they do about video games." I'm sure their family is very proud, though, ha.

I'm sure someone will buy it, but like @humanity pointed out, the whole "legend" business is kind of "ehh..." I loved Ryan and miss his presence on the site, but buying a car simply because he owned it is...I dunno...

Sorry, I don't want to come off like I'm offended by this. I'm not. It's just...I dunno...

Damn, I'd buy that for 750 dollars. I need a car.

And now I'm almost crying at work.

Perfect advertising.

If I was in the market for a new car, I would buy them both.

That's a nice car.

I prefer my vehicle

Whoever buys this has to cover it in an ugly-ass decal that says "Baller Time"

I miss Ryan.

This depresses the hell out of me. As much as I loved Ryan I don't need to have his car. The phrasing in the description, "ride with the legend", really bothers me.

Fuck, that's a nice car or at least many steps above mine.

I feel weird about this...

Would I actually want Ryan's car? No, I respect the man and have mourned his loss more than most; but this feels weird...

Don't think I've laughed this much to any Ryan-related, somewhat serious thread, since he passed. Good posts!

If I could actually get it for 750 I would totally buy that Explorer.

If I had $22k I'd buy that Nissan but I'm saving for a Dodge Charger. I always thought those cars were nice looking though.

I feel like this is fine. Ryans passing must have some sort of financial impact on the Widow Davis. My guess would be that this would go towards that. I feel the way he pitched it was also fine. To us Ryan is a legend, nothing wrong with stating the truth.

Wasn't there suppose to be some sort of charity donation thing that the crew was going to put on?

What I don't understand about all this is why anyone would want to buy a '94 Ford Explorer for $1,425.

Well it did start at $750 with no reserve. That'd have been as much as I'd have paid for it.

If only he didn't own a maxima and an explorer... Oh well. Hopefully they're able to get rid of them.

That's actually a really beautiful car.