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80′s Vision Gator Skateboard

/ 40 days ago

ghostfactory85 has one crazy description for the this vintage Gator deck from Vision Skateboards.

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“Ok, you know what this is – quite simply one of the most iconic, famous, and timeless skateboard graphics of all time (designed by Greg Evans, look him up in The Bible). If you collect skateboards, you need one in your collection. If you don’t collect skateboards, you probably want one anyway just to relive all the jealous feelings you had back when the skateboarders used to steal your girlfriends. Because it takes a MAN to ride a deck this pink and that’s EXACTLY what you’ll look like with this fine piece of pink all up in your business – a PINK-ASS MUTHAF’ING OG skateboarder! Call the ex and invite her over cuz you’re getting lucky tonight!

So we all know the deal – Gator turned out to be a real douche, pulled some horrible stuff and basically soiled his name for the rest of eternity. BUT! that doesn’t take away from the sheer awesome radness that is the Gator 1 Hypno-Swirl graphic, especially in HOT HOT HOT NEON PINK. Few graphics have attained the level of “cultural icon” that this amazing design has – it is the 80′s distilled down into ink on wood (minus all the cocaine and Eddie Murphy movies). Seriously, it is so rad that even after all of “Mark Anthony’s” freak-outs, ego-tripping, violent Club abuse, and general a-hole-ishness the design remains as FRESH today as it was nearly 30 years ago! Holy crap, think about that for a second – THIRTY YEARS!!! Where’s my flying car?!?!

So yeah, this deck. Hot PINK on dark stain, complete with BRAND NEW Vision rails and a Powell Peralta tailbone in a blue that sets off the pink the way a beer sets off a delicious pizza, super-clean Trackers with nylon baseplates (what do you call those? I don’t know, I rode Indys.), and very clean white (well, as white as 30 year old urethane can be) Vision Shredder wheels. This thing is an 80′s MACHINE, ready to rip and shred the hell out of your wall, closet, or deck pile, friend-o.”

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