Well i was El Primero Huero of a socal chicano "club" in the 80s. I had direct knowledge of the source of the truckloads we guarded as unpaid underage security guards. They also had chicken coops which were empty houses full of "pollo". No furniture,no carpet, no electricity. Just about 100 frightened immigrants cowering against the walls as they waited for the next truck. They would grab their kids when we walked in and we were only kids ourselves.
So back to sam....
He took California skunk bud seeds to the euro and then "created skunk1"
If you look up mad jags grows, well you will see he was growing skunk#1 in the usa in the 80's sourced from sam, delivered by rc an all before sam ever even visited Europe. So sam had skunk#1 before he ever visted Europe an was even selling it in the usa. However il tell you guys a secret, he likes to deny this now but a lot of the older guys (eg kees, nevil, edd, freddy)know this is 100% what he was saying. When mr skunkman first came to Europe an a few of the guys who actually knew what they were doing asked him how he had made skunk#1 his answer was it made its self. He grew some genetics he had obtained from someone else such as a Columbia Mexican hybrid (that was mabe sourced by someone else from the same commune ot1 got his hazes from)an another separate indica (probably from mapleleaf wilisons people) an grew them outdoors an skunk#1 made itself. Meaning accidental pollination. This is most likely why his very early sk#1 (eg ancestral skunk an before) was full of hermies. In Europe he managed to stabilise this an most likely added another indica to it because the first version were very sativa an not like the modern sk#1.
Let me see if I can find the pictures of sk#1 by mad jag