Anyone Catch "Pickers" on History??? I never really watched the show til tonight they were in California and they found some Vintage Surfboards and took them to be apraised. Pretty cool show I guess they should have gotten a second opinion on the boards. The Vintage Surfboard Expert wanst really right about one board . Pass a Pop out Plasitc Fantastic as a original out of the HB Shop
Yeah I saw that too. They paid like 2600 for 3 boards and 2 of them didn't even look that nice. I don't think they knew enough about surfboards to not get ripped off.
Yeah the plastic fantastic is a pop out . I have one out of the Huntington Beach Shop and they never came with Leash Plugs they very rarely has multi color in them .
sounds like it was a really cool show, regardless of the cluelessness of the people w/ the boards. the cynical side of me is now saying that this means there will be more people w/ "vintage" surfboards coming into the shop hoping to pass off turds for $$$.
Plastic Fantastic FYI,.....the board in question was a '70's stinger, custom shaped PF,....these boards in the early '70, were not the pop-outs of today made in Japan, along with the other "bought" labels of the '70's, such as Oceanside, Surfboards Austraila, Challenger---now made in China. PF, were made in Hawaii (Gary Chapman, team rider), Cali, and in RI(the RI shaper was Jim Phillips----who's still living his dream). ps---the board was donated to the California Surfing Museum, it fills in a developement segment----'70 stinger Aloha, Randy
Are you on Swaylocks??? Every PF discussion on there everyone there has told me that if you board has a leash plug or alot of color it is most likely not out of the HB shop and is a copy. The board in question had both . If we knew about the glassing that would be a better clue cause all the Over Sea made PF had very poor glassing. I have a PF board out of the HB Shop and you can tell its of a higher caliber when you put it next to a copy
Here is some useful info that may help in your debacle. http://stokednboard.surfingheritage.org/pdf/Plastic_Fantastic_Ca.pdf Leash plugs can always be added in later which also could be a possibility.
the plastic fantastic was very nicee... i have no clue how much its realy wort.. is 1200(i think they paid) a good price?
That was an awesome episode... Birds surfboard collection was beyond epic, and his knowledge was the same.
Yeah but from the looks of it they plug in that board looks orginal. If the show gave a couple closer views of the board it would be easier to tell. As I said Most of the info I got is off of Swaylocks they have a guy on there board that shaped for PF at one time Mine was made some time in the early 70's when RH owned the name rights. I didn some talking with Corky Carrol and he helped me narrow down the era of mine after I sent him some pics
those boards weren't worth much. Now, if those Stingers were shaped by Ben Aipa, we'd be talking a different story. Just because they were "stingers" doesn't mean ****.
Matt,.. .....are you sure the HB is Huntington Beach?----the Cali shaped boards were made in Hermosa Beach,......also for a short time Gary Chapman, Hawai'ian charger, brother to Owl,..made some in Fla.----was friends with **** Catri----sold the boards at a small shop, in '71,..next to Ron Jon's at the time---shop didn't last the summer. and yes,..a stinger shaped by Aipa would be the prize---however, the PF filled a void of Cali boards of the same shape----for those who want to compare a reconditioned Bolt stinger is on ebay now. ALOHA, Randy
Yeah Its from Huntington Beach . I spoke with Corky Carrol and showed him a bunch of pics of the board . He said that from what I told him it came out of the HB Shop in the early 70's . My board is 5'10 single fin in a fin box , no leash plug and glassed uper heavy . It is all white with the logo on the top.
