SUV that Biggie was in when he was shot worth $1.5M | Page Six
Days before the 20th anniversary of the death of Brooklyn rap legend the Notorious B.I.G. (a k a Biggie Smalls) on March 9, the SUV he was riding in when he was shot is going up for sale. And it still runs.
Smalls (real name: Christopher Wallace) was riding in a green 1997 GMC Suburban after attending a Vibe magazine party at Los Angeles’ Petersen Automotive Museum — while
Sean “P. Diddy” Combs was riding in the car in front of him — when he was shot four times.The price of the car is now $1.5 million, although after Smalls’ death it was bought by a woman who had no idea of its provenance.
“My guess is that the car was sold for roughly $10,000. The woman that bought the car needed something that could fit her family of six. She had the car for four years before she realized that it was Biggie Smalls’ car,” Gary Zimet, memorabilia dealer at Moments in Time, told Page Six.
Zimet added, “The buyers of the car unknowingly purchased the vehicle at a public auction in October of 1997. They were made aware by the LAPD in 2005 of the car’s violent hip-hop history. The car is currently in good running condition with 114,000 miles.”
The passenger door that was riddled with bullet holes was confiscated at the time for the drive-by murder investigation and replaced with a new door, we’re told. But the police will return the original door to the new owner of the vehicle once the unsolved murder case is closed. However, there is still one very visible bullet hole in one of the seat belts.
West Coast rapper Tupac Shakur had been killed six months earlier.
Moments in Time was recently behind sales of a pendant that Shakur was wearing when he was shot, and that was dented by a bullet, for $125,000. Sales have also included Shakur’s passport for $57,000, a prison-inmate ID for $35,000, a Bible signed by Shakur, license plates from his Rolls-Royce and a signed check from the rapper to his mother.
If you have the $1.5 million to spare, “it’s all good, baby baby,” as Smalls eloquently said in his hit tune “Juicy.”
Source: SUV that Biggie was in when he was shot worth $1.5M | Page Six
