# Tommy Chong's Unaired Lincoln Ad **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Created:** [September 19, 2019, 1:47am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/tommy-chongs-unaired-lincoln-ad/149059 "2019-09-19T01:47:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tester](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/tester/32/15976_2.png) [@Tester](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Tester)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 1:47am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/tommy-chongs-unaired-lincoln-ad/149059/1 "2019-09-19T01:47:22Z")
Tester ---
**Author:** ![Barkydog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/barkydog/32/2470_2.png) [@Barkydog](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Barkydog)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 1:52am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/tommy-chongs-unaired-lincoln-ad/149059/2 "2019-09-19T01:52:40Z")
Funny, but are you sure that is not an ad for the wipes? ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/e/2/e2dba3f86f9d43ee9e5d28d1dde45c8314458dc6.png) ---
**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 2:00am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/tommy-chongs-unaired-lincoln-ad/149059/3 "2019-09-19T02:00:48Z")
His book about how he came to be a federal prison inmate for nearly a year when selling glassware was his only offense – not making this up — is pretty interesting reading. Disheartening as well. _The I Chong: Meditations from the Joint Paperback_ – June 5, 2007, by Tommy Chong "On the morning of February 24, 2003, agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration launched a sting called Operation Pipe Dreams and forced themselves through the door of Tommy’s California home, with automatic weapons drawn. As a result of the raid on his home; the simultaneous ransacking of his son’s company, Chong Glass; and the Bush administration’s determination to make an example out of the “Pope of Pot;” he was sentenced to nine months in prison because his company shipped bongs to a head shop in Pennsylvania that was a front for the DEA. " ---
**Author:** ![Purebred](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/purebred/32/46796_2.png) [@Purebred](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Purebred)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 4:16am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/tommy-chongs-unaired-lincoln-ad/149059/4 "2019-09-19T04:16:22Z")
Dave’s not home man. ---
**Author:** ![gmallan55\_149168](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@gmallan55\_149168](https://community.cartalk.com/u/gmallan55_149168)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/tommy-chongs-unaired-lincoln-ad/149059/5 "2019-09-19T12:20:54Z")
That was some hilarious comedy back in the day, or around 50 or so years ago. It is still rather amusing. ---
**Author:** ![Mustangman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mustangman/32/44130_2.png) [@Mustangman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Mustangman)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 2:07pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/tommy-chongs-unaired-lincoln-ad/149059/6 "2019-09-19T14:07:56Z")
> [@gmallan55\_149168](#): > > That was some hilarious comedy back in the day Funniest among 13-17 year olds and pot-heads… I laughed at it back then but I was 13-17. Not nearly as funny today. …But I still have my copy of Big Bambu complete with the giant rolling paper - very rare to have survived! ---
**Author:** ![Whitey](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/whitey/32/24680_2.png) [@Whitey](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Whitey)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 2:49pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/tommy-chongs-unaired-lincoln-ad/149059/7 "2019-09-19T14:49:56Z")
I always admired Cheech and Chong’s cars, from Chong’s VW Beetle with the Rolls Royce front end, to Cheech’s low rider with “Love Machine” stenciled on the side window. You’re right that the comedy didn’t really age well (particularly the humor based on racist stereotypes), but _Santa Claus and his Old Lady_ is a classic I enjoy hearing every year. ---
**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2019, 1:58am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/tommy-chongs-unaired-lincoln-ad/149059/8 "2019-09-20T01:58:40Z")
Repression? Recession? It’s all the same man … 😉