We'll Miss You Ryan Dunn!

• Posted by Maximillion Cooper
• 20.06.11 @ 06:19 PM

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I'm devastated to hear the news that our friend, Jackass legend and Gumball favourite Ryan Dunn died in a car accident in the early hours of this morning near his home in Pennsylvania. I've been friends with Dunn since the late 90's having met him through our other Jackass friends. Here's a few photos that remind me of some of the adventures we've shared together over the years! 

Ryan first took part in the Gumball with Jackass director of photography Dimitry Elyashkevich back in 2003 from San Francisco to Miami...

We made a movie of that rally, called Gumball 3000 'The Movie' in which Ryan starred. Here's the giant billboard with Ryan 'I just want to be Burt Reynolds' Dunn outside the Odeon Cinema in Leicester Square, London, in 2003.

This is me with Ryan and the co-director at the Hollywood Boulevard film Premiere!

Ryan drove in the Gumball several times since then with his closest friend and fellow Jackass star Bam Margera...

They drove Bam's purple Lamborghini on the rally from London to LA via Bangkok in 2006!

And then in 2008 from San Francisco to Beijing Dunn took part with Bam, Dimitry and Loomis in a VW campervan...

We sang karaoke in a bar in North Korea!

This was Ryan in Sheikh Gumball's chrome Gallardo at the Shanghai F1 circuit...

 That year, the VW campervan became a Gumball favourite...

And he and the rest of the VW Campervan Gumballers took home the 'Spirit of the Gumball' Trophy!

I have had so many adventures and great times with Ryan that he'll always be a HUGE part of my life. I'm still completely in shock and can't get my head around that fact that I won't see my mate again.

My love and condolence go out to his immediately family, closest friends and EVERYONE around the world that LOVED RYAN DUNN!

Sheikh Ryan Dunn I salute you. 

You'll be missed by us all. RIP.