Steve Caballero has a nice 5 window. He had some pictures in Thrasher sometime last year. He was/is one of my favorites. I got to meet him when I was a young skater. Now I am just an old fat and bald skater. Nothing is more humiating than falling down at a skatepark and have an 8 year old say "Hey Mister, you ok?" I definatly did not fell like a skate punk then.
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/member.php?u=3638 Point being... Skateboards being mentioned on the HAMB ain't such a stretch.
i have an undrilled one hanging in my kitchen...maybe i'll post a picture when i get home from work.... george
To keep it somewhat car related- Jason Jesse has a pretty cool looking custom 50 Chevy. Green with yellow headlights. Anyone have pics? I think it was on the Monster Garage episode where they made a halfpipe on an old Itasca RV frame. He's into bikes too, as described on the this Jockey Journal thread.
Ha ha! Was it really worth going through the trouble to hit reply and typing that? I guess so! Sorry I didn't realize everyone on here already knows everything. My bad. Pfffft.
It's because you came on here spouting off like you knew something, and that something has been gone over and over and over... Maybe if you damn newbs would get a grip on where you are, maybe read back on some of the posts, maybe learn how to use the search function, maybe, just maybe you wouldn't catch ****... and yes it was worth writing this, every damn word...
man i miss my mini zorlac.... best board i ever had.. traded a mike mcgill for it... ahh those were the days
I don't know a damn thing about boards but a good friend Brad Jackman is over and just gave me a cool SK8 Kings T shirt.. he's the only real boarder I know http://www.sk8kings.com/new/brad_jackman.htm
Anyone have a '80's Jeff Kendall deck from Santa Cruz? The one with the hands ripping open the Earth? Been looking for one for quite a while.
Because of this post and skatefinks link, I am now the owner of this Not an original but will make me happy looking at it hang on the garage wall. maybe I will find some early trucks and big tires and actually take it for a ride. or strip the gear off my generic wood deck (from about 1981)...
Rear motor Top Fuel car........guess it's not traditional, and a wothless piece of plywood from China.
Sounds like the Jan & Dean song "Side Walk Surfin to me" I did the same thing with a yard sale metal wheeled skates, the only real smooth place that you could ride them was @ SGHS's main hallway when I was 7or 8yrs old. I moved up to a clay wheeled GT wood board then came the "Imp" which was a skate shop in San Gabriel and had a parent shop in Rosemead. Right about 1975 Road Rider Urethane wheels came out, they were the hot ticket!!!! then Nona boards, later like 77 was like Simms, Wheels & Boards, Tracker Trucks G&S, Hobie, Alva,Bones, Powell/Peralta,Krytonics and so many more. Parks like the Pipeline in Upland and Montebello, Marina Del Rey off the 90 fwy divider. They were the sh*t!!! I don't know how many pools we drained & ruined the tiles grinding the edges. I built 1/4 pipe ramps that went up to my back houses deck, My grandmother used to give me hell. she thought that someone would injure themselves & sue us. I had a lot user friends then. I had them go build their own ramp. Rode my board to school every day until one day a cop pulled me over & tried to cite me for riding it on the street, so I got on the sidewalk, & started riding away, pulled me over again & said that I was being "sarcastic" & there was a law against me riding on the sidewalk, Dudes making me late for school! Here I was almost driving age & I'm getting h***led for riding a board. I decided to give the board a rest and drove my car to school with only a learners permit. Hell they didn't want me riding my board, so I drove-for like 2wks until I got my license
Went to my mom's house over the weekend and found my old skates still hanging on the garage wall... I grabbed my Lester Kasai Pro Model, and threw it in the car - I think I need to ride that old thing some. I did notice that Makaha trucks and Trackforce wheels don't ride as good now as I remmeber they did when i was a kid. Funny thing is, I think I got this deck from Lonnie Toft when I snapped my deck at the "Endless Wave" in Oxnard. Dave
Damn this thread brings back memories. I'm going to get the old pictures out and post some. Those Zorlac boards kick ***. Pushead was and still is one of my favorite artist. Mike
............Congrats on the new treasure! I have the art book coming. Hope it makes it by Christmas. .......check out a new place I just found: www.drazen.com Cool shoes.............
around '73 a mate and I stole his sisters skates and built a board each. For the next 2-3 years we thrashed around Coventry (UK) being the only skaters around. In '76 I found a surf flyer in a toy shop in Torquay, it was £5.99 and a great leap in speed but was prone to vear off to the left for no reason, not fun when riding full thrash down hill. We had an aunt come over from California in '77 and she bought a poly board with urethane wheels and proper trucks, **** it was good after what I was riding. In '78 my dad went to Cal to see her again and came back with a G&S fibre flex,, bennet trucks and simms bowl rider wheels, man that board rocked. I currently have a hammer headed hosi deck from the 80's, tracker trucks and kryptonic reds, I also have a set of bel-air wings that are real fast on a smooth surface and apparently rare!!!. I also have a surf flyer that was left in the house when we moved in, I will post some pics when I get home (if I remember)
how about longboards? anyone have any? i've got a gravity ed economy surf rider with indy trucks and route 70 wheels. i was lucky enough to have steve caballero sign it for me when he was in kokomo indiana for the opening of the new skate park there.
Anyone ever hear of an aluminum board with steel roller skate wheels? I got one in the early 70's and have never seen another.
This is my collection. Another sick hobby of mine. I'm keeping my zorlacs but I'll be selling off the rest to fund my auto addiction soon. http://www.villagephotos.com/pubbrowse.asp?folder_id=1532523
I used to spend a lot of time on the skullandbones website and picked up quite a few of them about 4 or 5 years ago before the prices went through the roof. I still get on there because there's a few missing from my Zorlac collection and I have a few friends on there. S&B is a pretty good site...lots of good guys on there.
Was that the Bonzai? They came in different anodized colors...I had a blue one. I don't think it had metal wheels. What about the "Jaws"? Orange plastic with a metal kicktail for throwin' sparks!! G.
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