From my kill/ maim/ small fortune thread:
#1 goes to Silas 1's: just fucking do it Adidas, and don't screw it up! I want them grey shits with the same quality that used to make you so good, don't cut corners don't even try to redesign it.
* emerica ed templeton 1s - i can't believe that to this day that emerica won't reissue this one (imo it's was/is on par with the marc johnson's first model). there was sooo many people rocking this shoe at the time of their release; arto basically lived in them.
* vans rowley XLT1 and the shams model - the XLT reminded me of some old-skool reeboks and the shams were basically a bulletproof half cab with a cupsole. saw some XLTs on ebay the other day but it seems like every man and his dog were bidding on them (which just proves how popular they were). bastien and ali rocked them a lot though i don't think they were fully appreciated at the time
* dukes (first shoe they put out?) - super clean design and you couldn't fuck with jeremy wray at the time (still can't). i had a pair back in the day and loved them. quality was top notch too!
* kastel - ronnie bertino's first shoe? kastel, as a brand, aged really badly but their first run of kicks was pretty tight at the time
* emerica phocus - i only found this out recently but apparently this was going to be JT's 2nd shoe after his "i'm going to skate barefoot until you make me a canvas shoe" model. jamie left emerica shortly before it was released (see page 3 of that thread for his first adio shoe which was actually based off of the phocus), but emerica released it anyway sans his name. i had just become a vegetarian at the time and was obsessed with cruelty-free shoes (still am), but most of all i just thought it was a really clean looking shoe. would still skate these in a heartbeat <3