Please note: Most of these items are not for trade, I only trade and do not sell, email me with any trade proposals. My current trade list is at the bottom of this page.
All of the completes on the site have been set up to be era correct, and in the case where it is a pro or signature model, I have set the board up with the same components as that skater rode back in the day. For example-check the Brad Bowman superman, BB rode for Indy and used sims conicals on that model. Or this Caster-Chris Strople series V, Chris always colour matched his equipment where possible, he rode for Tracker, then Indy, so it is only natural that this pig board is set up with Trackers and blue sims conicals. Or even something obscure like the Turningpoint madness board, Shredi Repas rode for Turningpoint and rode that particular model and was sponsored by Tracker trucks and Sunspots wheels, hence that configuration.
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Acme Dork slick - Thunders, 44mm hippo's (back when the wheels were value for money) - 1992 |
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Alien Workshop
Danny Way - This was Danny's board on the 1998 Big Day out in |
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Check the vintage Alva stickers on the right of this pic from the 70's, 80's and the '87 Australian tour shirt and team poster.-1987 |
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Alva Lite beam - Tracker extracks, Alva naturals - My favourite of all the Alva boards, this board is super rare and is in pretty much a mint condition, it has pizza grip, Alva cushions and has been a quest since '80, now I can strike it off the list, this was pretty much in direct competition to the Powell Peralta Beamer, DT Shogo Kubo airbeam, DT Muir litebeam and Kryptonics Malba and Salba K-Beams of the same era. The reason for this kind of design was to reduce the overall weight of the complete skateboard, since they were getting wider, they were getting heavier, so they battled with the whole weight reduction problem, this was Alva's answer, 5 ply deck with two beams reinforcing the weaker sections. - 1980 |
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Alva 8" x 30" - One of the original Alva's, I always loved these boards, Lazers, Alva flatbacks - 1978 |
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Alva 8" x 30" - top view |
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Alva 10" x 30" - One of the classic pigs, I love this set up, just before the truck manufacturers started to make wider trucks for the wider style boards, Tracker fulltracks, Alva conicals - 1978 |
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Alva 10" x 30" top view |
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Alva Bill Danforth -
G&S Chromoly trucks, |
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Alva Dagger -
generic trucks, |
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Alva Christian Hosoi - Independent Trucks, Alva Rocks - This marked the change for Christian, he moved from Sims to Alva, there he developed the Hammerhead board design and became a skateboarding rock star, this board as you can see, is already beginning to morph into that shape, super rare in any condition. - 1984 |
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Alva Punk splat - Tracker extracks, Alva conicals, another quest item for me from the late 70's, recently re-released with a slight concave. - 1979 |
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Amel Jet racer standard trucks and wheels - 1975 |
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Anti Hero John Cardiel - Get well soon John - 2004 |
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Astral 10" - Lazer wides, Astral XXX's - 1978 |
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Check the stickers, hat and shirt. |
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A-Team Marc Johnson - 2000 |
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A-Team Gershon Mosley - 2000 |
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A-Team Nite Lite - 2000 |
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A-Team Team model - 2000 |
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ATS - All terrain skates - The brainchild of Dave Mock and John Fox, an Australian made deck - independents, cockroach wheels. - 1987 |
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Bahne fibreglass - Bahne trucks, Cadillac wheels - 1975 |
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BBC-Jeff Phillips - Kangaroos graphic - mint - 1990 |
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BBC-Jeff Phillips - 1990 |
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BBC-Monty Nolder - 1990 |
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BBC-Reece Simpson-Butter cup cakes model - Gullwing trucks, Schmitt Saw blades - 1989. |
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Beavis and Butthead MTV -
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Beer-City Duane Peters- Board from Old School skate jam - Duane gave me this board when he toured down under, this was the board he used all year (2001) and was the board ridden at the old school skate jam #1 at Skatelab. Check the pic of him riding it at OSSJ. |
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Belair Sunburst 27"
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Mr Benjy's Helmet - 1978. Promotional cards featuring Marc Sinclair, John Sablosky and Jeremy Henderson. Promo pic featuring Henderson and Sablosky. Sablosky and Henderson stickers. |
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Benjyboard
downhill - ACS 650's, Road rider
6's -all NOS. Board manufactured in mid/late 70's in the |
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Benjyboard downhill - top of deck, check the badge. |
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Benjyboard freestyle Megatron freestyle, Yoyo pro's - 1977 |
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Black Label - Salman Agah - 2001 |
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Black Label - team - 2001 |
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Blind Jason Lee Burger King board - Read the letter from Burger King asking Rocco to cease production of the board - 1991 |
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Blind Jason Lee-Beers, Bible ......... -1990 |
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Blind Mark Gonzales - People - 1990 check out the pic that Gonz drew of me in '92, thanks Mark. |
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Blind Mark Gonzales Mark "Gonz" Gonzales (skull and banana) This was a direct piss take of the Ray "bones" Rodriquez graphic from 1979. This was an era in skateboarding when the "small companies" were getting ribbed about being "small". Blind copied the Powell Peralta graphics and vintage advert and made it their own, they soon realised that by changing 10% of any graphic made you the new owner of that picture. Independent trucks, piddly world wheels - 1990
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Blockhead Sam Cunningham -1988 |
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Bonzer John Bogarts -1987 |
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Bonzer Toxic reaction - Bonzer trucks, Bonzer wheels - 1987 |
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Brewer Bobby Piercy - 1977 |
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With the Caster listings, each board was either made with two added fibreglass sheets (under the first top and first bottom sheets of ply) or made without fibreglass and just plain Canadian maple, the ones without fibreglass were stamped under the back truck with an S and the fibreglass epoxy models were stamped with an F. Dig the Caster, gullwing team and Southern hemisphere skatepark shirts. Check the Caster stickers and the Warranty card back and front. |
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Airbrush painting, done by Paul Caster, this was given to me by Chris Strople, he told me Paul was Bills brother and this used to hang in the Caster warehouse, it used to have sea shells stuck on the frame around the picture. |
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Caster Bigfoot - Red finish fibreglass epoxy 8" Gullwing pro's, 64mm Powell bones - 1979 |
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Caster Bigfoot - Woodgrain finish epoxy model 32". 8" Gullwing pro's, Wings single conicals - 1979 |
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Caster Chris Strople
Series V - fibreglass epoxy - Tracker extracks, Sims snake conicals, this
board was given to me by Chris in 1979 in mint condition when he visited
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Caster
Chris Strople series V: fibreglass epoxy - Tracker
extracks, Yellow
Bones 64mm double radials. This was Chris's personal board when he visited
Look at the top of the board. Here is a pic of Chris using the board at Skatopia. |
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Caster Chris Strople - 10.5 x 30.25", fibreglass/ply laminate - Tracker extracks, Gyro single conicals. My dad just found this gem in the garage after 20 years in storage - thanks dad. - This was one of the non standard factory screen prints, not many of these were produced. - 1979 |
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Caster Chris Strople - standard wedge kick, 6" Gullwing pro's, Wings wheels - 1977. Check the poster. |
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Caster Bigfoot - 9 1/2" wide x 30 1/2" Fibreglass epoxy model. This was given to me recently by a Skatopia rider Brent Neighbour. He told me this was one of Grant Macredie's boards, he was Grant's neighbour and inherited a lot of Grant's old gear, this has all the hallmarks and stickers of one of Grant's boards and bears "rock n roll slide" evidence of a regular footer, this board was about the time when Chris Strople visited and taught him the "rock n slide". This board is exactly how he rode it with gullwing 8's and wings single conicals. - 1979 Grant was the only Kiwi to grace the cover Skateboarder Magazine. |
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Caster Bigfoot - Grant Macredie's board top of deck. |
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Caster 32" - standard ply standard with 6" Gullwing pro's, Kryptonics 60mm - 1978 |
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Caster 32" - top view -1978 |
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Caster 9" - standard ply tracker full tracks, wings single conicals - 1979. |
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Caster Tom Inouye-IPS standard - mint condition, this is an original deck from '79, some repro's came out in 2002, it ain't one of those, my dad saved this one for me - check the stickers - 1979
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Caster Wings - standard this was the factory blank/pattern that the decks were cut from - 1980 |
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Caster Wings - check the top |
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Caster Wings-custom - one of my favourite boards - Variflex connections, cut down wings - 1980.
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Chris Stroples SIO shorts and T-shirt - These yellow shorts were used in countless photo shoots, mainly at Del Mar, here is a photo of Chris using these shorts in his December '78 Skateboarder Magazine interview doing a backside airborne at Del Mar. Thanks Chris.
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Vertical Sports USA - Independents, Blackharts, a skate company developed by Chris Strople and Tom Inouye after the death of Bill Caster (founder of Caster skateboards), the essence of quality and performance was continued with Chris's and Wally's efforts in promoting Vertical sports, this board was Chris's, thanks Chris. Here is a pic of Chris riding the board at Del Mar in the Halfpipe. - 1982
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Challenger
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Cherry Bomb - Lee
Bryan pro model. These boards were handmade by Lee's dad in the |
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Coca Cola Max Headroom skateboard - Variflex standard trucks, street rage wheel - "cheesy" - 1986 |
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Condor range of colours, take your pick from this line up, some have condor parts, others have been changed and have Cadillac's or slick's or fat's, the transparent green one on the far right was Shirley Strachans when he skated during the early 70's, here is his solo album from 1980. He died tragically in a chopper accident and was the lead singer for the "Skyhooks" a 70's aussie band. These boards were the equivalent to the US GT Grentec, a classic Australasian skateboard. Check out the sticker- 1974 |
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Consolidated - Scott Bourne - 2000 |
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Consolidated - "Rental" - 2001 |
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Continental fibreglass - Continental trucks continental slicks wheels - 1976 |
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Deca - Daewon Song - 2001 - Given to me by Daewon on aussie tour 2001 |
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Deca - Marcus McBride - 2001 |
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Deca - Neil Mimms - 2001 - Given to me by Neil on aussie tour 2001 |
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Deca - Team board - 2001. |
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DHD - "Fireball" - Edwards trucks, Edwards big Red wheels - 1978. |
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Check the Dogtown stickers in the bottom left of this pic from the 70's, and 80's. |
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Dogtown Bob Biniak - 8" Gullwing pro's, Dogtown rock n rollers - 1978 I absolutely love this board, it has retained it's bright colour in the graphic. |
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Dogtown Jim Muir Triplane - 169 Independent trucks, DT K9 wheels - 1980 I love this board set up with these wheels and trucks, the wheels are brand new, just how Mike Smith used to ride it when he rode for DT. |
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Dogtown Micke Alba - 169 Independent trucks, 66mm Bullets - 1988 |
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Dogtown Paul Constantinou - Tracker fulltracks, 70mm Kryptonics - 1978 One of the first model DT ever released. |
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Dogtown Shogo Kubo-Airbeam - 8" Gullwing pro's, Wings double conicals - 1980 |
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Dogtown Shogo Kubo-Airbeam - top view |
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Dogtown Wes Humpston-bigfoot - 131mm Independent trucks, DT Rock n Rollers - 1979 The first pig board ever released by DT, the trucks that were available at this time were still to narrow to suit it's width. At this point in '78, it will take 6 more months before wider trucks are released to suit this board, this is why it is set up with narrower Indy's. |
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Dogtown Wes Humpston-bigfoot - top view |
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Check the stickers and team shirt-front, back and sleeve. Another Edwards shirt from local shop. |
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Edwards Black magic - Edwards trucks, Edwards pinks wheels, great freestyle board, fibreglass maple sandwich much like the Fibreflex, a little thicker - 1978 |
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Edwards Rocker - Edwards trucks, Edwards stoker wheels, this was one of the first boards manufactured by Frank Edwards in New Zealand, Frank in conjunction with David Hill of DHD fame was responsible for the development of the power pivot - 1977 |
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Edwards Vert machine - Edwards trucks, Sims snakes, solid oak pig - 1978 |
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Flite Airborne - Tracker sixtracks, Wings double conicals - 1980 |
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Flite Airborne top view |
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Check the G&S stickers from the 70's and 80's, and the banner. |
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G&S Billy Ruff Goblet and bubbles - NOS - 1984 check the sticker |
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G&S-Billy Ruff Puppet - 1987 |
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G&S Billy Ruff Puppet #2 - 1987 |
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G&S Bowlrider - 1978 |
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G&S Fibreflex-kicktail-NOS - Bennett trucks, Yoyo flatbacks - 1976 |
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G&S Fibreflex-slalom - ACS 651's, G&S Wonker wheels - 1977 |
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G&S Fibreflex Pro Slalom - This was one of my boards from the 70's, when slalom and freestyle events were all part of any contest, you had to be good at slalom, freestyle and bowl riding to get a good overall result and score - Gullwing HPG split axle, 65mm Kryptonics - 1978 |
matching shirt.
Photo:
Cassimus
