You could call it the most grungial truck in history.
A 1972 Dodge Sportsman passenger used by the pioneering attire of the northwest northwest, the duration of Melvins, its inaugural tour of the United States is reaching the auction block, but in pieces.
After the “Melvan” will be disassembled today outside a couple of record stores, and Julien’s musical icons will auction the various parts of the truck.
The most coveted part of the legendary vehicle will be the piece that has the signature of the leader of Nirvana Kurt Cobain, which carved in the truck, after using stolen Sharpie markers to draw a mural of kissing kisses from the New York rockers.
Cobain was a teenager when he became friends with the Melvins led by King Buzzo, who formed in 1983, and since then he has more than 50 albums.
Cobain spent a lot of time behind the direction of the truck, transferring his friends to his various concerts around the state of Washington.
In interviews after Nirvana reached world fame with the 1991 advance It doesn’t matter LP, Cobain, who was 27 when he died in the heyday of his fame for suicide in 1994, the Melvins was regularly named, citing them as one of their strongest musical influences.
Vomit-Green and White also present the carved firms of the bassist of Nirvana Krist Novoselic and the drummer of Melvins Dale Crover-Who is briefly touched with Nirvana at the end of the 1980s, before the addition of Grohl to the fold.
Buzzo actually introduced Grohl to Cobain and Novoseelic.
Bill Clinton was president the last time the truck was worthy of the road.
The truck was previously auctioned for $ 24,700 in 2012.
The next auction is scheduled for May 30 and May 31 in New York.
