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Sims Pure Juice Vintage 36" Skateboard

$ 184.8

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Model: Sims Pure Juice
  • Condition: Lightly used. Please see photos for detail.
  • Featured Refinements: Sims Skateboard
  • Brand: Sims
  • Type: Sidewalk Surfboard
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Modified Item: No
  • Theme: The 70s

    Description

    All original Sims 36" Skateboard, energy trucks, Sims Pure Juice wheels, late seventies era - It is in very good condition. This was a gift from Tom Sims back in the late 70's. I knew him from HS back in NJ. I had happened to find one of his hand-made longboard prototypes ("Sims test ski "routed into the deck) at a swap meet in Goleta. I was living in Santa Barbara at the time and called Tom up
    (also living in Santa Barbara)
    and I offered it to him as I thought he might want it. He did. He recognized it as a prototype that he had made in Hawaii. The prototype fairly rough, about 48" long. In gratitude, he gave me this early 36" long board that I used fairly sparingly for a couple of years. If I hadn't known him from high school, I probably would have had him sign it. But to me, he was just Tom, not a celebrity. He was a talented great guy, drew excellent cartoons in class. He and his more avid skateboard buddies referred to skateboarding as "birding" back in the Haddonfield, NJ days. RIP Tom.