Nice collection!

 

You say you restore cars, hmm? Any advice for a guy with a leaking radiator and an alternator that's going bad? =P (Joking, PM me. ;-) )

Don't know what you're up to with the car, but I sent you a PM anyway!

 

Thanks for all of the compliments again. I'd probably have a lot more to show for in my 9+ years of collecting semi actively, but I'm sure everyone can relate to having other things that they spend money on, be it bills or other toys. It's usually a combination of both. Car restoration isn't cheap, even if you do it yourself and I think on average, each one of those skateboards ran me about $500 each. The lowest being $150 and others closer to $1,500. The record was just broken for the most money spent on a skateboard. It was $6,000 and is now at $10,000 (from the same guy who spent the $6G on the other Tony Hawk deck)... plus whatever it cost the dude to take a trip to NYC to pick it up from North Cali. Some deals you just do in person.

 

And I thought I had the crazy eye!

 

The toy madness never stops!  :tflaugh

Dude, that board collection is more impressive than *any* TF collection I've seen on here. They're minty fresh and some of the pillars of the old pipe/pool designs.

One great one I always loved was one of the first Alba boards. I was always a Powell guy growing up, but when my neighbor got that Alba, with the angled tail I stole it from him every chance I got.

 

I had no idea people were collecting those things, so thanks for the flashback.

 

(holy crap! just checked on ebay for some old decks and it absolutely recockulous what they're going for! Dayum!)

The Steve Aalba Bevel was a great deck!

 

Skateboards do get super pricey in mint condition. The decks that sold back in the day were skated. The ones out there that are being collected are the lucky factory leftovers or decks that were in the back of skate shops or used as tattoo or skate shop decorations.

 

The difference between skateboards and transformers from a statistic point of view is that skateboards were made to be destroyed. Although Transformers were destroyed and played with until broken, it wasn't advertised that you were supposed to destroy them. You played with them and put them away and you were supposed to take care of them.  :tflaugh

 

It's a lot harder to find skateboards. In some instances (the Jagermeister deck on the right end) that was my first deck, there are exactly 10 of them in the world left, unskated, one of which belongs to the Santa Cruz skateboard factory warehouse collection.  :tflaugh It's similar to collecting original low brow art.

 

I started collecting because I hate popsicle stick shaped boards and I grew up on old school decks and wanted to start skating again. I bought a skateboard from a list that a skate shop had in the back room, set it up, used it as a long board and never tapped the tail, in fear that it might be worth something. I was right, so I dismounted the hardware and griptape and hung it. Then I wanted my first deck back (the Jagermeister with the deer and cross) and I found one 4 years later in 2002. I had been collecting Transformers at the time and I thought it was insane for me to spend $340 on a skateboard at the time. I just recently found one in the same natural wood finish last month that I had as a kid. It was in the back of an old skate shop in Sicily, unskated and I sold the dark blue one for $1,600.

 

Skateboard decks accumulate value faster than any collectable ever has. 1000%+ price increases in 15-20 years since they cost $45-$50 when they were new. They are definately the epitomy of a collectable... Saught after, super rare, made to destroy and have semi-celebrity names like Tony Hawk, Jason Lee (from My Name Is Earl), Steve and Mickey Alba (Related to Jessica) and many others  attached to them.

 

I'm starting to try and finish up my Transformers collection and I stumbled on this site looking for a Browning toy and came acrossed the thread with the variants listed.

 

Glad to be a member here! I have stories about Transformers related junk that are crazy. I'll get around to them eventually.  :tflaugh

 

Thanks again!

 

Dave

Wow very cool collection!

Yep. I went through a bunch of skateboards. Of course then I got the McGill from my friend in 1993 for about $10. It weighs like 5 pounds and there is no way you could break it if you tried (it seems) but it was also so heavy that no one I knew could do any tricks on it except grinds... Oh and it has steel risers instead of plastic ones... that might be it.

Thanks Rodr Evil! I'm loving the boxed Trypticon! Oddly enough, that was one of the first and few Transformers that I had as a kid, aside from the Optimus prime and Hound that I received as a birthday and christmas gift prior and I still don't have one. I've had a few loose incomplete ones that I've let go, but I'm holding out for the day that I actually get the nerve to spend money on a complete one or a boxed one. I kept the box when I was little until my brother shredded it years later.

 

I remember my mom letting me keep the box, because of the awesome artwork on the inside of the flap. I loved it up on my book shelf. It also came with a glow in the dark poster that my younger brother terrorized.  :tflaugh

 

@ Tripredacus -STEEL risers! HAAA!  :tflaugh Yeah that would add a few pounds to the ride!  :tflaugh

 

Old school decks vary in weight, but most weigh in right around 3lbs 5ounces or just under. Complete with everything, most weigh right under 5lbs... I'll bet that McGill weighs in at 6-7lbs!

 

Man, every time I go to spend money on a cool Transformers toy, recently, I always end up spending it on a skateboard.

 

It was either these decks or a TF Browning. (I'll repost the pics soon) I think I'm happy with my decision though. I can always get a JP TF Browning down the road at some point.

Very nice collection!

 

Most of the G1 is well represented - and the drawings are kickass too. :)

 

Check mine out sometime (click sig)

@ Tripredacus - Yeah, that Mike Mc Gill Skull and Snake is a cool deck! The Steve Caballero decks are nice, too. I'm a Santa Cruz fan myself... I have like 7-8 more decks coming, but here is my most recent pic of the skateboard collection, for anyone interested-

 

Hey man, I finally found a pic of the deck I have. It's the 1991 McGill. You can see the third pic on this page. Unfortanately I can't find a bigger pic of it.

 

http://www.artofskateboarding.com/Pg/aos_p...e=15&page=9

That is one awesome G1 collection. Great job.

 

It seems to me I'll never rank this high with collectors. My G1 is pretty much non existent. :tdown

 

Ah well, moving on.