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From around 1996 to 2000 or so, they were very much the main truck that the guys I skated with got in their packages and so the lightly used ones all were passed on to myself and others.
At that time, they were great - good kingpin clearance and overall height, long lasting, decent bushings, etc.
I think there were a few kingpin issues, but I also think we had that with lots of trucks back then. Kingpins break, just put in new ones. The factory pressed kingpins didn't come in until the 2000s anyway.
There are still half a dozen or more sets on boards I have for people to use for skate lessons and the like from that era and I never really have any issues with them, even now, from sets from 1996 to 2000, so all more than twenty years ago.
When production moved from USA to China and there were significant issues with quality and trucks bending, they all but died out in the early 2000s almost everywhere I recall, so that was the last time anyone I know had them.
Once they figured out what was going wrong in the factory and fixed the issues, most of us had already moved on to other things and never looked back, but I hear they are decent trucks once again, although different to what we had back in the day.
To note, Destructo along with Theeve and Ace all had similar issues with their product, but all rectified the problems in the factory and now make what people say are good quality products, along with the other main truck brands.
I don't have anything against them, but I did have a rather funny conversation with someone about them not too long ago, with the other person having a lot more to say, most of it not at all nice, but based on the issues they had twenty years ago, which is not exactly fair, nor is it a reflection on the current status of the brand either.