It’s been more than 20 years since Biggie and Tupac were murdered in drive-by shootings, but the slain rap rivals still take up more headlines than most living artists. There’s currently a 10-part drama series called “Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G.” airing on USA, BET has launched a six-part documentary looking at the rise and fall of Death Row Records, and conspiracy theories devoted to Tupac chilling on an island in Cuba or Biggie having Nostradamus-like knowledge of 9/11 continue to dominate Twitter searches and tabloid pages alike.

Whether you believe the pair’s continued relevance is due to the timelessness of their music or evidence of our collective lust for all things morbid, the reality is millions of people are not quite ready to let Biggie and Tupac go. This is something 64-year-old Gary Zimet, the founder of Moments In Time, a seller of “original historical materials,” banks on. He is currently selling the GMC Suburban SUV in which Biggie was shot to death, 21 years ago tomorrow (March 9, 1997), for a cool $750,000. He’s also looking for a buyer for the BMW 7 Series in which Tupac was fatally wounded on September 7, 1996, for a bargain $1.5 million.

The vehicles are just two curios in Zimet’s large collection of bizarre and unbelievably morbid memorabilia. He’s also selling the only copy of the real Schindler’s List (acquired from the family of Itzhak Stern), the hearse that carried Dr. Martin Luther King’s body, and the copy of Double Fantasy that John Lennon unknowingly signed for his murderer Mark David Chapman just hours before his death. Depending on your perspective, Zimet is either someone interested in preserving history or a purveyor of spectacularly bad taste.

Pitchfork caught up with Zimet to ask how he came in possession of the Biggie and Tupac cars, who’s interested in buying them, and whether selling them is morally wrong.

Pitchfork: How does one come into contact with the car Biggie Smalls was murdered in?

Gary Zimet: Weirdly enough, a family purchased the SUV purely by chance and had no idea of its importance until several years later when they got a postcard from a detective in L.A. saying he needed the car returned for evidence. They had to give it up momentarily but later got it back.

Now, in the case of the Tupac murder car, it’s been fully restored and, unfortunately, all the bullet holes were done over and you can hardly tell it was a car used in a murder. However, with the Biggie car, although the doors were replaced [the LAPD cut off the original doors for evidence], there is a bullet hole still visible in the seatbelt!

The car Biggie was shot in. Photo courtesy of Gary Zimet.

And you actually believe this is an item that will sell?

I acquired the Biggie car roughly a year ago, maybe a bit longer, and I am selling it on behalf of the family that owns the vehicle, who asked me to get involved as they could see I was already selling the Tupac car. The family has lowered their asking price from $1 million to $750,000 and although I’ve had interest, it’s not yet been sufficient enough to sell.