After Tanner Brownlee's father was killed in the line of duty in 2010, he was saddened to discover he didn't have many remaining possessions from his late father.

That changed Wednesday when Steve Wells, whom Brownlee had never met, outbid Brownlee for his father's squad car at an auction in Weld County, Colorado, according to 7NEWS.

Wells paid $60,000 for the car, but as soon as he won the bidding war, he handed the keys over to Brownlee.

"It'd mean a lot to me and my brother," Tanner Brownlee explained about winning the car in the video. "We've been through a lot."