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These look a lot like "V" brand skateboards that my dad sold during the late 70s, I still have my childhood one under my desk as I write this. Sadly, my skateboarding antics came to a very bloody conclusion in 1989...

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[ScottA]

I still have my skateboard, with the box no less. It is transparent orange.

[jwyblejr]

My sister had one. I don't think she ever used it. I use to just sit on it and wheel my butt around.

[rche]

I had a friend with one that looked a lot like that D yellow one. His pop was really concerned about how we rode it. Sidewalks only, never on asphalt. He would check the trucks and wheels any time we rode on it and if there were any nicks in the rubber my buddy would catch hell for it. This whole bit steered me away from the skate world, but it was ok 'cos I had my bicycle and who needed a deck when you had yer bike and a ramp?

[Bionic Joe]

When the bozzo kid three doors down split his head open on his driveway on a skateboard any chance of me getting one went bye bye

[Fire Marshal Bill]

Wow, thanks for posting that and bringing back fond memories from my childhood. I think i still have my old skateboard somewhere. Hours of fun spent on that thing. I remember customizing mine with Tracker trucks and Kryptonite wheels. And don't forget all the stickers applied to the underside .

[EMCE Hammer]

I was expecting something in pressure-treated pine with some groovy chairs.

[HardyGirl]

I had a big (for the time) fiber glass custom board my dad special ordered for my 12th birthday. I think he found somewhere you could order the design for the top. I still have it, (but the wheels and truks are off). I believe it's a Pro-class board w/ Pro-class truks and Big Mac wheels. It's got a surfer motiff on it.

[Wee67]

Having the my orange plastic board was what really made me so cool. It was that the helmet that my mother INSISTED I buy along with it was the same one Adam Rich wore on some long-forgotten TV appearance.

[generic]

My first board was the old-school, 70s style, plastic board, but I got a wooden board pretty quickly after that. I owned several boards over the years. We never wore helmets or pads and used to ride in the street (and not just in the neighborhood, but on the busy, two and four lane streets in the area). I remember riding down those long steep hills at crazy speeds and there would have been no way in hell I could have stopped if a car had pulled out in front of me. I actually busted pretty bad one time when the street I was on ended at a 'T' and I couldn't stop or turn, so I just kept going. Fortunately, it was into the grass, so I didn't die or anything! We were morons and I'm surprised that none of us got hurt worse than we did.

I picked up my main board from my parents house a while back and everyone I knew said, "Oh no! You're not going to try to ride that again, are you?" or "You know, you're not as young as you once were. If you get on that think, you'll break your arm and then you won't be able to work!" or "You're the most uncoordinated, accident prone person I know, how the hell did you ever ride one of those things without killing yourself?" You've gotta love it when your friends support you!

[UnderdogDJLSW]

Yeah my friend and I had the red and blue plastic ones. I used to kneel on mine and ride it down the middle of the street. I'm surprised we never got hurt, too.

[SainthoodDenied]

Mine was like "D" but all transparent blue. It came to a tragic end before it did me in. Going down my grandparent drive I jumped off before the end and it went in a ditch, I jumped in and gave it a fast roll up and out and it landed flat, wheels up and broke in 2 pieces.

Chad

[The Toyroom]

I wanted one really bad...got it for my birthday...was only allowed to ride it up and down the sidewalk....story of my life

[pooper_prez]

I had a yellow plastic one a lot like B. My best friend had one that looked like C.

[Brad]

I built mine out of hand picked parts. Still wish I had it. G&S Pine design board, Bones Cubic II wheels with AKF speed bearings, Lazer 500 trucks, etc. It was a "pool board" and I really do miss it though I haven't ridden one in years now. I was actually not bad at it either. I could do ollies, axle grinds, jumps, flips, and so on. Of course this was around 1980.