Filed under: Minivans/MPVs, Government/Legal, Volkswagen
Magic Bus: Project VW reveals hidden surprise
Back in the 60s and 70s, the VW Micro-bus had quite the hippie reputation, with flower power and home-grown pharmaceuticals being part of the mystique that helped make the real original minivan a 1960s icon. For the owner of a 1958 double panel restoration project, the drug connection hit a little close to home. When checking out the undercarriage of his new purchase, TheSamba forum member Joshua B. found 14 LBS of marijuana stashed away. While we can't provide an exact street value of such a find (if you can, let us know in the comments) we can assume that it's a hell of a lot more than the value of this rusted out old groove-mobile. If you plan on trying to contact Joshua about his find, don't bother, he already disposed of it. If anything, we can say that marijuana definitely kills enough brain cells to forget all about storing 14 LBS of chronic under a VW, which doesn't seem like something someone would ordinarily forget about. It doesn't take Fred, Velma, and Shaggy to figure out that these forgetful smugglers are total rejects.
Thanks for the tip, Aaron!
[Source: TheSamba]
Gallery: VW Magic Happy Bus!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
EM 11:40AM (8/21/2007)
One of the commenter's seems to think its worth about $14k (A K a LB). Assuming it's still good.
I, however, haven't the foggiest.
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b0b 11:59AM (8/21/2007)
In response to the 14K price tag.... no f***in' way. Have any of you ever smoked year old pot.... let alone 47 year old pot? The re-sell value of it was a big fat $0.00, unless you're an uber-feind.
EM 12:04PM (8/21/2007)
Well, can't say I know anything about it, so I have no clue.
Closest I can come to that is 50-60 year old aged cigars, taken vary good care of, and are still smoke-able go into the hundreds I would assume. all I can say about pot is that I have 0 interest in it.
Steve 12:49PM (8/21/2007)
If it's higher quality marijuana, it sells for about $150-$200 per ounce and $50-$60 per eighth of an ounce nowadays. There's 224 ounces here, so if that were being pushed today, it would yield $33,000-$44,000 if sold by the ounce, or just over $100,000 if sold by lower quantities (8ths of an ounce/etc).
However, as mentioned many times, this is very old crop. There is a good chance it's probably nasty and wouldn't sell for a nickel.
Anita 4:57PM (8/21/2007)
It has an antique value.
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TokerEconomy 11:52AM (8/21/2007)
Dude!
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tenaciousJk 4:23PM (8/21/2007)
dude?
Phillip 7:35PM (8/21/2007)
Sweeeet..
Brian Hague 12:19AM (8/22/2007)
WHAT DOES MINE SAY!!!!
Gregg 11:55AM (8/21/2007)
Seems rather foolish to dispose of a find like that. Heck, if he really thinks marijuana is a dangerous drug (and not worth keeping for himself or sharing with friends), he could have donated it to medical marijuana causes. Giving it to the clueless government "war on drugs" rat hole/money pit serves no one and nothing. Still, he got featured in Autoblog, so it is not a total loss!
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Sam 4:33PM (8/21/2007)
It's seriously old organic material. The green in the pictures is green plastic bag, not leaves. Those are bricks of rotted mulch. They ceased to be pharmaceutical ages ago. No clinic would take that in except to spread in the garden as fertilizer.
And to Chris Shunk: "...we can say that marijuana definitely kills enough brain cells..." Are you serious? Killing brain cells? The propaganda they sell to make grass appear dangerous is laughable. Do a little research, please.
Steve G. 12:07PM (8/21/2007)
By destroy, I assume you mean he burned it.
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Whiplash 1:43PM (8/21/2007)
Yeah, burned it.... but "didn't inhale, and didn't like it". ;-)
Aki 12:09PM (8/21/2007)
Actually it's more like $100k, assuming it's good quality marijuana (1/8 ounce goes for about $50-60). If it's old I'm sure the potency is reduced--but that depends on how well it was sealed, and whether it was exposed to lots of heat/sun during that time.
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Adam 12:11PM (8/21/2007)
Don't just throw it away... at least make some brownies with it!
Seriously... It wouldn't even be worth fertilizing your garden with that stuff... Way too old! Plus compared with what the kids are smoking now, it doesn't even compare... uhhh.... so I hear.
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Dausman 12:19PM (8/21/2007)
Would guess the stash is totally worthless....except for conversation........no telling what kind of moldy-fungus sh.. is growing or has grown in that crop of weed.
Hey, maybe the seeds will still germinate....cultivate a new crop....don't fool with the old stuff...grow fresh green.
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Derek Kreindler 12:27PM (8/21/2007)
I'm sure that stuff is garbage 70s schwag, so it cant be worth much. If that was new, figure he could walk out the door with a new Mustang GT in exchange for those bricks.
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Roman 12:31PM (8/21/2007)
No way in hell is that still worth anything. It's too old to be of any value.
They found a 1500 kgs of it in a the back of a Vito around the corner from here. Now that's a more notable find....
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N 2:00PM (8/21/2007)
It was the sixties, they didn't have cronic. It was all low grade, backyard shwag. $20 an 8th and you're getting ripped off. $80 an Oz, $1000 an Lbs. Again as though anyone would want weed this old.
did 12:51PM (8/21/2007)
Didn't know autoblog was so anti-weed, maybe I should consider being anti-autoblog.
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