Vintage Old School page 50's and up

[GriffinSk8]

Here's my elephant wrench. 34 years old, and still going:



This is a real fun board:



24" doublekick fiberglass Tiger, from late '76. ACS 500 trucks, Powerflex 3 wheels, IKS bearings. Wheelbase is 14". I took this to the last Harbor 100 cone race, and during practice, I set a short (20 cone) course at 3' centers, and was able to run it clean. Took a few runs on the 100 cone course, and I was double pumping every cone...

That Skate Key has gone to hell and back but still works. I would like to see you ride that fiber board on a 100 cone run I bet it was a sit to see. double pumping that little monster!! Thanks for the pic's{ keep them coming} people its the only way that we are going to make this ketch on. Use old guy's need to show off our {Quiver} Too the younger people. It's showing the History off skateboards in the making and how far it's gone!!!
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GriffinSk8

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[EBasil]

Holy smokes, that looks old. It also looks a lot like the Val Surf oaken boards, but who can tell after all the fun that board has obviously been a part of? Did you get that via international mail order, or were you in the Valley as a kid?

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[GriffinSk8]

[cyclura]

These are now available. I found them and these are the last of the orignal 1978 long skate keys. heard to find but I did it. Most of you that grew up in the 70's know this skate key as the original skateboard tool and it still is. I have had mine since 1980 and I still use it all the time.
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GriffinSk8

let me get one of those bitches!

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[GriffinSk8]

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hope too see more

[Apologies for the shitty cameraphone pics - I am at work currently...]

Recently unearthed from a neighbor's basement:

An orange Grentec GT with GT trucks and wheels, also orange.
I haven't explored the bearings yet, but from the few scoots I've had around on it, they could certainly use some lubing/replacment.

(I welcome any easy/gentle cleaning tips..)

Regardless, a fun artifact of a previous era.

[GriffinSk8]

let me get one of those bitches!

Just PM me
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GriffinSk8

[GriffinSk8]

Here one more.

[enemy combatant]

I haven't explored the bearings yet, but from the few scoots I've had around on it, they could certainly use some lubing/replacment.

Plenty of loose ball bearing parts here: Roller Skate Bearings

[samhell]

Thane, I think this is a great idea, and I hope it turns into full
section of silverfish.. You have one the craziest collections,
man just photos alone of your collection would be a feast
for the eyes...

[Shorty McSmalls]

Here is some old school and new school work of Bobby Turner. Turner and Ick Sticks are some of the greatest skates from the old school era. Bobby and Rick were way ahead of the game. I am a Turner Junkie no doubt.



I feel like I post this picture way too much. I just can't help myself

[GriffinSk8]

Here one more.

I know this one is a little beat up but it was well loved and its a Compass Skateboards
Encinitas CA. The gripe is something that I have only seen once before on a new board in the 70's it's a plastic type of gripe. When this was new the gripe would cut your fingers good like a cheese grater.
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GriffinSk8

[GriffinSk8]

So what do you want to see next 1960's or a deck from out of La Jolla High wood shop 1986?

[revzack]

Bruce Logan, It was drilled and unridden till I got it. Mid tracks and pink c 62's
Turner Summer Ski. Indy's, wood risers, 70mm krypto's, and absolutely no pivot cups.

[GriffinSk8]

1960's Clay wheel

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So what do you want to see next 1960's or a deck from out of La Jolla High wood shop 1986?

So...can we see the wood-shop deck?

[GriffinSk8]

In 1986 my friend built this deck in La Jolla High School. Johnie could surf 10.0 long boards and he was only 5.5 feet tall. I was a freshman and John was a senior. I got the board from a neighbor a few years later. My friend crashed this deck into a pole and cracked the fiber glass. I stripped it a few years and want to add the fiber back on soon. OG old school.
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GriffinSk8