How a 720 should look!

bclark

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That's my 720. Those stickers on the speakers are vintage but the boards in the back and ones you see on side are Tech Deck hand board collector series. My real decks are hanging next to it a little to the right and not pictured and the are a mix of reissue and originals.
 
It's amazing how much NOS boards are worth.. I remember back in the day, you could order new Powell Peralta, Vision, Santa Cruz, etc.. boards for what, around $50? Look em up on Ebay.. it's amazing. Not surprising they because sought after collectibles though.. they're a piece of awesome woodworking, art, and pop culture.

I have my Mike McGill skateboard, but it's seen better days. Gotta hang it over my 720, someday.

Nice setup you have..
 
Actually even the reissues are going for like $100+ these days! It's crazy. I'll try to get a good pick of my "skate shrine" when I get a chance. Got old school Powell and santa Cruz banners in there too. It brings my wife and I back to our days of being young skaters in the 80's. Plus my 14yr old is starting to shred and I'm hanging his old decks up there as he goes through them. I even built him a mini half pipe 4x8x22ft in the backyard. He's making so proud!
 
I've got a Powell RIP board from the early days before they were even concave. It has a pretty big chip in the nose though.
 
Nice looking machine and shred sticks. I have several vintage decks in my gameroom as well. They include my first real nice board which was a Mark Gonzalez (Vision), I also have a Mike Smith, some Tommy G boards, a couple of Alvas, T Hawk signed, and a few others. I love having them in the gameroom and near my 720.
 
bclark..... you got one lucky kid there. dad skates and collects games!

here's an older pic of my decks in the garage.....

SKATE and DESTROY!!

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Actually even the reissues are going for like $100+ these days! It's crazy. I'll try to get a good pick of my "skate shrine" when I get a chance. Got old school Powell and santa Cruz banners in there too. It brings my wife and I back to our days of being young skaters in the 80's. Plus my 14yr old is starting to shred and I'm hanging his old decks up there as he goes through them. I even built him a mini half pipe 4x8x22ft in the backyard. He's making so proud!
 
Mark Gonzales, gator, wow..

I watched a few minutes of The Search for Animal Chin on Youtube recently. It was baddddd, but fun to watch back then.
 
bclark..... you got one lucky kid there. dad skates and collects games!

here's an older pic of my decks in the garage.....

SKATE and DESTROY!!

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Everyone is looking at the boards. Am I the only one to notice that very nice white jetfire on the shelf???
 
hehe..... you know, the jetfire is not complete, but damn its a cool figure.

i let my 2 year old play with it the other day and SNAP he broke the arm off of it :(

time to find another one on ebay!

Everyone is looking at the boards. Am I the only one to notice that very nice white jetfire on the shelf???
 
bclark..... you got one lucky kid there. dad skates and collects games!

here's an older pic of my decks in the garage.....

SKATE and DESTROY!!

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I keep telling him how lucky he is but he don't listen! Lol
those decks are sweet!
 
bclark..... you got one lucky kid there. dad skates and collects games!

here's an older pic of my decks in the garage.....

SKATE and DESTROY!!

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I love the Gator and the Gonz. My first "real" deck was a rainbow gator on green stain. Super rad. Tracker Ultralights and Kryptonics wheels. BClark those stickers are right on. The only deck that I still have that isn't totally destroyed is a Lester which has autographs from Steve Cab, Lance, T Hawk and maybe Craig Johnson. I will be resurrecting my 720 pretty soon.
 
Actually even the reissues are going for like $100+ these days! It's crazy.

Sweet game/shrine! All you need is a TV playing "The Search for Animal Chin" on an endless loop. Man, it's funny you say that about the crazy prices these days. I've got an old Per Welinder freestyle board -- it was a NOS and ungripped deck for the longest time until I finally assembled and rode it as a kid. I have been flabbergasted at the prices I've seen that deck go for!!! After seeing that, I promptly pulled mine out of storage and dusted it off all nicey. I felt bad letting the ol' girl stay stuffed in the back corner of my shed. (Unfortunately, no 720 to go with it.)

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Sweet game/shrine! All you need is a TV playing "The Search for Animal Chin" on an endless loop. Man, it's funny you say that about the crazy prices these days. I've got an old Per Welinder freestyle board -- it was a NOS and ungripped deck for the longest time until I finally assembled and rode it as a kid. I have been flabbergasted at the prices I've seen that deck go for!!! After seeing that, I promptly pulled mine out of storage and dusted it off all nicey. I felt bad letting the ol' girl stay stuffed in the back corner of my shed. (Unfortunately, no 720 to go with it.)

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Sweet little shredder there. I actually had that exact same board/color bitd. My guess is that many of those did not get used much as not a lot of people actually freestyled. I still have a lot of my old boards, but not that one. That pic brought back some memories- nice resurrection!
 
Yeah, my little sister has a Kevin Harris freestyle board (she put pink griptape on it)
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My RIP looks like the one in Endofline's picture (note the wheel wells.) I should break out the camera. Between my brother and I, we had a shit load of old decks.
 
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