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laceys lane said..SP said..I'm from Newcastle mate, I'll take an MR anyday...
great boards and top bloke..
And I'm not that old so not back to my youth this was off a mate and is late 70's early 80s, I'm told...
Just saying a lot of times boards are just a recycled idea and / or progression on something that has been done before..
Nothing wrong with it..
I think the mr thing/ explosion was 81 ish. we were just starting to drive. pete turner at the original kirra surf sold truck loads of them.
amazing board back then.
thinking about it , it wasn't common to buy off the shelf back then
Very different times now LL ..., picking up on the fact that buying boards of the racks wasnt common. such a massive shift from walking in a shop and writing an order up on a piece of paper to walking into a boutique and selecting of a rack. It was more of an experience, a social interaction of sharing the Stoke of a new board.
in the late 80's I ran a little surf shop in WA called Odyssey. We had a handful of t-shirts a handfull of boardies, lots of leggies, wax, ding repair kits and other hardware and about 12 boards on the racks...but there were times we turn over 30 boards a week mostly customs And the shop wasn't much bigger than a cupboard. When the surf was on, shop was shut, then open again when the sea breeze was in and that's when we sold boards, lots of em.
i can't walk into a surfshop in town to get a ding repair kit unless you squeeze it out of a tube!
Macaha
> 9 months ago, 31 Dec 2015
