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You Can Buy The Only Example Of GTA V's Banshee In Existence (Again)
You Can Buy The Only Example Of GTA V's Banshee In Existence (Again)-January 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:13:42

What happens when a game gets so popular that the company that created it wants to make a life-sized replica of one of its most iconic cars? It gets built by West Coast Customs, given to a middle-aged mom, then put on eBay. Twice. , proving that lightning doesn't just strike once.

. It currently has 7,500 miles on it, and had three previous owners. While it does have the stock 500+ horsepower V10 drivetrain, nearly every single panel on the car is custom-made to resemble the. As you can see, the attention to detail is staggering, with every detail painstakingly recreated and sculpted from what I'm guessing is fiberglass, since the Viper's original bodywork was made from the same material.

The reason for selling again? Just as , the car is too high-maintenance, as would be the case in any completely custom project like this. The battery is found by removing lots of panels, and enormous Hifonics subwoofers take up all the precious rear cargo space, making this an A to A car, at the very most. However, at the time of writing, the bidding is up to the mid-$50k range, seriously cheap when you consider that the commissioned car took almost $200,000 to build.

Should you buy it? That depends on how much you'd want a one-off replica of one of the most iconic cars in one of the most iconic games ever made. I'm not sure how much it would actually be worth, but in a strictly technical sense, . Just make sure no one steals it from you, because, y'know...

is the founder of and writes about on the internet. He owns the world's cheapest , a , and he's the only Jalopnik author that has never driven a Miata. He also has a real name that he didn't feel was journalist-y enough so he used a pen name and this was the best he could do.

There's a difference between being cheap and treasuring value per dollar spent. One is knowing…

You can also follow him on and . He won't mind.

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