[Closed] Retro skateboarderists.....

Gator everytime.

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Round one,

My Bulldogs!

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If I could post pictures I’d like to be in this.
Fresh in the wrapper lance mountain 1986 vintage

That hurts me! 6 unused DTS Skateboards! How much I wanted one of those, but we couldn't afford it, so made our own decks.

Not stoked

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoked:_The_Rise_and_Fall_of_Gator

Dble post

They're not all unused dezb. The SS, bulldog reissue and gashead have not been ridden but the others are used and cleaned up for hanging. The viking is still used but the photo was taken about 10 years ago.

Caballero Dragon....blimey this is a blast from the past!

My three favourite decks are

Chris Miller Schmitt Stixx Cat with bird in mouth.

Kevin Staab Simms Mad Scientist

Santa Cruz Slasher

Can’t do photos on I pad because I is thick 😳

Thee bestest:

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Gonzo

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Had a t shirt with the Cabellero dragon backprint when I was 16. Wore it to death

the Gator one is a bit tarnished. I wouldn't be coveting one. Anything by Gonz is the right answer, also unable to do pics.

Eddie Fiola - Member
If I could post pictures I’d like to be in this.
Fresh in the wrapper lance mountain 1986 vintage

use this site, dead easy: postimage.org

Oh yes. Had a Gator. It was a classic.

Glad to hear it dallas95. They certainly make for an awesome display.

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It’s got to be the Gonz.

If your talking Roskopp then it has to be the face.

If you’re into skate art look up the two ‘Disposable’ books by Sean Cliver (ex Powell and World Industries etc artist). Superb nostalgia. If only I had the money and space.

razaorrazoo - All the [url= http://www.jimphillips.com/skatepix2.html ]Jim Phillips Roskopp designs[/url] are bloody brilliant.

I got the chance to work with him years ago. I commissioned some illustrations from him for T-shirt designs. I was totally in awe of him, but I don't think the company I was doing it for (the MD was a right ****!) had much of an appreciation of what a legend they were dealing with, and unfortunately, they never saw the light of day 😥

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and a guy at school had a pristine version of this: [img] [/img]

except with hand-drawn Gonz art on the topsheet he got at a signing. We lost contact but I hope he still has it today.

OK, normally i really can't be bothered with all the hassle of adding pics to this forum but seeing as there's clearly some old skate love on here...

ladies and gents, i give you the first UK made (prior to this bilbo sold the hobie skateboard from the US with their own logo stick on) commercially available skateboard in the UK.

this board was bought from Bilbo in Newquay in 1967.

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Note that the wheels were originally painted white to make them look like clay wheels.

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I have a leaflet that came with it too but for some reason i cant share the pic.

Amazing! Bearings need a bit of attention though. Urethane painted to look like clay, brilliant.

New board compared to my old one

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Still got one of these hanging up in the garage.

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Colby Carter H Street.

Purple Indies and red rails, for shame.

Last time I posted a pick some bloke from America emailed offering to buy it.
🙂

I used to love the old Zorlac decks - never had one - but the one I always wish I still had was the Santa Cruz Natas with the panther on (mine was kinda blue-ish stain):

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Found some old Venture trucks with old slimeballs on a year or two ago in a box of old crap & stuck them on a nice retro mahogany effort like this:

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was having a great time zipping round the kitchen on it until the missus caught me - I then re-purposed it as an attractive plant stand & put a big cactus on it, howver she kiboshed that idea too claiming a big spiky cactus balanced on a skateboard in the kitchen is not very "child friendly" 😆

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This is currently on sale as a reissue. Must...not...buy

My first proper board was this one, listed after a Powell Hawk all year and then changed my mind at the last minute.

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I have a re-issue "animal chin" Cabellero hanging up in my newly renovated kitchen.

I want that Neil blender, and am still searching for a replacement for my John Lucero in the colourway I had (greeny blue).

I am hoping that my old decks are still in my parents loft too. Especially my Per Welinder (red).

Love an old skool deck me.

Im not old enough to be retro but I spent about 2 months wages of my paper round on this deck...

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For some reason I was still terrible at skating even after spending all that money!

SMA and then early World Industries graphics were great. I never had one but I loved all of their ads.

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but the best powell graphic was this one: [img] [/img]

That Ray Barbee section in Ban This was also amazing

This was my first (in green stain)

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Then this, although it never impressed me, the Schmitt Stix wood was way betterer

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Couple of great decks there vintagewino.

Schmitt morphed into The New Deal in the early 90s. I had one of their first series of decks.

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Thread delivers.

I have one of these (reissue):
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Also one of these (NOS):
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Want one of these:
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To answer the OP's question, I'd go Psycho Stick (even though I wasn't a fan of it in the 80s there's something quite iconic about it)

Surely a Gator board is kinda like having a Jim'll Fix it t-shirt?

Jobless, I had an X2, black I think. Not mine -
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And Gators story is part of skateboarding legacy, along with all the other messed up rejects who push it along.

If anyone is interested in Gator:

This thread is making me slightly jealous that I never got into boarding and that at 51 I don't bounce well enough to start learning.

Turbo II

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Turbo ii rings a bell. Asda SSOs, weren't they?

I've still got a few of my old ones lying around. Sadly my favourite, the 36" Schmitt YardStix with 70mm red Kryps snapped when a fat mate reckoned he could ollie it. I've kept this one for Jr, nos Hammerhead with some pink Slammers (a neighbour has a few sets of unused ones squirreled away)

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Hosoi is sick but must have risers! Rippin styles holmes!

Kryptonic Slammers? I had a set of those, they were mega soft.

Yeah, it has risers waiting to go on, but the bolts I got were too short (being old, I forgot noone uses risers now!)

Two must watch documentaries:

Bones Brigade Autobiography

All This Mayhem - the Tas & Ben Pappas story

Im not old enough to be retro but I spent about 2 months wages of my paper round on this deck...

Nice. Another mid-school skater here. This is the deck I remember really wanting. Plus Blind, Plan B, Chocolate Girl, Prime, Toy Machine... great memories

Wonder if I can still do a pop-shuvit 😀 ?

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I had a g&s bowlrider with tracker full tracks and excellerator wheels, then swapped the deck to a benjiboard John Sablosky.

Wish I still had it.

Had a SC Jeff Kendall (terrible)
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Then a PP Underhill (still have it)
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Wanted a Schmitt Danger
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Wanted a Schmitt Danger

[url= http://socalskateshop.com/index.php?l=product_detail&p=62555 ]I'll just leave this here and back away slowly[/url]

Hey now, play nice!

(Wonder how much shipping is...)

[url= https://www.nativeskatestore.co.uk/skateboards-c7/skateboard-decks-c23/old-school-t331 ]Why do I start searching for this stuff!?[/url]

Nice Underhill! I had forgotten I had one of them too. Might have been the one that got nicked by a group of malevolent youths when I was crossing the river from St Pauls on the way to South Bank when I was 15.

Had a t shirt with the Cabellero dragon backprint when I was 16. Wore it to death

I found mine at my dad's recently. Unfortunately it has been tie-dyed at some point. From the days when Split Skates on Church St used to relieve me of my paper round money most Saturdays.

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New school compared to everything else here, but there we go. A 1995 Andrew Reynolds and a Girl from I can't remember. I'll check on www.artofskateboarding.com and return!

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The Mrs has given me sign off to get a couple of re-releases as wall art. Gonz is a definite, just got to decide what to hang with it 😀