garbage find!!!!! skaters look!!!

Those trucks are Gullwing Sidewinders......

Oh yeah, SWEET FIND!

 

those were the good old days. i had the same one with tracker trucks and slimeball wheels... good times! glad to see you saved it from trash.

 

Not sure if its what your looking for......

 

Still have my old Nash Goofy Foot,I did a little pinstriping on it in school one day!

 

The trucks are Gullwing mach III's, the rail are Schmitt Stix Big Ugly Stix, and the board is from 1988. I used to collect old school decks and have seen some of the decks you guys mentioned sell for a pretty penny, as long as they were in mint condition. Great finds, i wish i was lucky enough to stuble across some old decks of that condition in the trash.

 

I never throw anything away (ask my wife!) I knew one day all my boards would be worth something.........funny thing is I don't want to get rid of any of them.
I think I may get one of Cabs new Hot Rod boards,haven't bought a board since the 80s.
Remember the Alvas?

 

Alva's were the shit back in the day! I had a fred smith punk size and an ediie retiguei (sp) that just rocked!! My all time favorite had to be a Matt Hensley "Lamp Post" H-Street.

 

Fred,one day I'll tell ya a story about guys on boards downhill skating the Foothills Parkway in the Great Smoky Mountians National Park.
Lets just say the Park Police didn't think it was such a good idea! something about never being able to set foot in the park again etc.

aahhhh the old days!

 

HAHAHAHA Man the good ole days........

 

aaahhh mad find man my first deck was a vision psycho stick im gunna get a repop one for my wall

 

............I have a set of Alva wheels.........

 

I actually did one of my own based on the early Wes stuff:



A few of my other boards are here, but I haven't updated this is a while...

http://dabica.com/collections/skateboards/index.html

The best collection of Early Dogtown stuff can be found at

http://www.skateboardpimp.com

 

Dewd my hous is filled with vintage skate stuff..good story at work one day a guy was like "im having a garage sale nd my cousin was a high school teacher and took away some kids skate back in the 80's and its in the garage sale if ya want it. I know your into that crap.." so he was all like I'll give it to ya for a buck.. he brought it in ..like new smitt sticks Lucero full on new wheels gullwings and rails .. got it for a buck hanging on the wall now although i did drop in on it on my ramp for one run...had to thats what its meant for..

 

I believe this Gator is not from 86.It looks more like a later model.I still have my Gator from 84-86 and it has a smoother shape.Not that "edgy".Still have all my other boards and NEVER will part with them.Just took a look at the Skull and Bones Skateboards website and it seems I got a fortune in the basement...
Man,those times were great !!!

 

A couple years ago I walked outside on a Sunday morning and found this in my front yard...

 

wow yer hittin home with that post. im o.g. vista as well i knew zach as well didnt he die in a hotel bathtub or something? remember avalon bay?? i lived up the street from lincoln for 16 years and i went to church with gator when i was a little kid. matt hensley and tony alva and tony hawk are all north county guys. kinda cool

 

thats the same one used in the INXS film clip ,even running the gullwing trucks. Nice find. The old school boards where much better to ride than the modern toothpicks

 

Great find! I'd love to get my hands on an original deck like that. But, I guess Ill have to stick with re-pops and the like.

 

Was it the "aerotech" slasher? I had one of them & it didn't last real long, The twelve step ollie might have had something to do with it.

Cheers, Jimbob

 

someone probably tosed that board to get rid of the evidence.... Is there blood on it...???

I have a Sim's STAAB genie deck with blue ventures.... What ever happened to Kevin Staab...??? Doesn't he skate for "Hollywood" now...???

Is Hasoi out of jail yet...???

Remember "SK8TV"...???

 

I'm such a dip shit for getting rid of my old dog town "board to death" and "Big foot" decks. I also had a blank with one-off artwork by Chris Miller painted on it which I wound up snapping. If I'd only known they'd be worth something. I wonder which of the newer decks will have any value other than sentimental in the future. Aside fom some of the longboard decks, the nu skool decks have no personality other than the graphics.

 

man, that brings back some memories!

 

I was there at Trashmore when Gator got arrested for spitting on the cop... he really was a dumbass.


Did anyone else go to the big contest in the airplane hanger in Mobile Alabama back in, what 85 or 86? I was there. Fun times.

 

Amen!
Skateboarding=Hot Rods???? I don't see the connection. Go to a different site and don't waste this valuable space.

You've got to laugh about the paraphased quote "Wow, that takes me back". Yeah, way back to 1986! Ha!

 

seen some of the decks you guys mentioned sell for a pretty penny, as long as they were in mint condition.[/QUOTE]
I dont get it! How do you find a stick in "mint condition"?! That' to me would have to be the rarest find in the scateboard world!, because everyone i knew that had one, two or a dozen rode um all!


Edited by Grimlok - I've skated for quite a long time. So I can personally draw parallels between skating and hot rods - they are there and I'm obviously not the only one to pick up on it. Doesn't matter though. This post ran it's course long ago. Done.