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Found an old board at a thrift shop, and it had these sick af trucks on it. I gave them a lil love with a wire brush on my electric drill, and a few washers and bushings later they work out alright.
But what are they even?
Also, check out the sick wheels 62 x 62, 55 mm patch or some shit. They’re hard af, and centre offset. Simply marked “urethane”.
These were the beginner department store complete from the 80s, maybe still some around, but more often than not they are virtually extinct. All budget no name parts that were cheaply made and were usually copies of one or more of the top brands of the day. Mostly just fun to look at nowdays, but occasionally some bits still skate ok from them - very rarely though, so I would be careful if you are skating anything from that board in any normal way.
It’s as I expected then, thanks for confirming.
I thought maybe someone knew what kind of truck they were copies of. The geometry is weird, and they have a ton of lean. Road testing will ensue. I set them up on the 9” Orange eagle with 59mm 78a black kryptonics. It’s a cruiser. Thinking about fitting the rails, nose guard and tail block from the old board that went in the trash.
The original bushings must’ve been hella tall, as I had to shim up the regular sized ones with big washers.
Old trucks used to have up to 17 mm bottom bushings and 14 mm top bushings - still have some NOS random brand bushing packs from when a shop closed, none of them trustworthy now though.
Seeing some of those now, they would never fit in modern / normal trucks.
There are some people who keep a lot of those sort of boards, more just for the memories of how crap some skateboards were from back then, but there isn't really any money in the cheap copy department store boards, certainly not like any old pro boards from back in the day.
It is pretty cool to see some of those and think that is how bad things used to be for kids (myself included) growing up learning on that as a first board.
Gotta start somewhere though.
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