Monday, April 26, 2010

My beloved Powell-Peralta "Ripper" Model Skateboard is AWOL / Stolen!"

 

http://socalskateshop.com/index.php?l=product_detail&p=11612

This is the basic look, but my colors were black and blue.  My board has a Bob Marley sticker over the skeleton head. The Bob Marley sticker was the exact same size and shape as the skeleton head and I thought it would add some uniqueness to the board. Apparently, it did, as it was extremely popular with everyone who saw it, and someone might have liked it enough to want to steal it.




Other bottom side sticker details:
Betty Page sticker in the lower left corner just below and left of the back trucks.  

"Independent - 25 Year Anniversary" sticker between front and back trucks.
A "Damned and Demented" sticker between the front and back trucks.
A "tortured soul" sticker on the back tail,
A Caballero "Dragon" sticker just north of the front trucks.  

This board was my baby. It felt like mine the minute I stood on it. For you Baseball fans out there, it was like buying a glove and having it immediately feel like you've been catching with it for 5 years already.

I recently redid the grip tape, so maybe the great kharma streak was broken? Who knows?

I'm hoping that with the economy being so bad, that maybe a father who couldn't otherwise afford such a board for his kid, now has my board and his kid's as happy as can be! That would be a nice ending to an otherwise perfect experience with this board!