Comments on: The Living Variflex Museum (of Crap)

By: houseofneil

houseofneil — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:48:49 +0000

shit, my bad. Strike the LSD portion. I got Grisham confused with Allan Losi in my head for some reason.

By: houseofneil

houseofneil — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:46:05 +0000

glen, Eric Grisham was one of the biggest pros of the early 80s. He had a lot of decks out on Variflex, Suregrip International, and then his own company, LSD.

By: brad

brad — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:31:49 +0000

I whiz on the Wiz

By: glen

glen — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:21:00 +0000

had a variflex board back in the day and i rode the heck out of it it was called an ERIK GRISHAM never seen another one like it have you ???? would like too find one for sale.

By: solboy

solboy — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:30:45 +0000

The Howler shape looks acceptable, in an Alva/Sims pig rip off way… The rest, yuk.

By: heath

heath — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:02:52 +0000

Does anyone remember Valterra? That awful company stole graphics from the real companies and put it on their Taiwan made, department store crap.

I remember seeing what appeared to be a G&S Billy Ruff (with the Jack/Giant graphics) in an open faced box at the local Kmart. Ahh memories!

By: heath

heath — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:15:17 +0000

“Space Junk?” Too funny!!! The artists put a lot of time into that one!

I remember many of these boards were on sale at the local department store. They were sixty bucks or so. Pure, unadulterated garbage.

My first “board” was a Variflex “Zig-Zag” with those horrible hard plastic wheels that were included on the thirty-five dollar models.

I was eight years old, and I distinctly remember counting all of the change in my piggy bank to see if I could buy a set of the softer wheels which were included on the deluxe model POS’s listed above. For a birthday surprise, I got a real board (Vision “Punkskull” w/Indy’s and Shredders).

By: Kilwag

Kilwag — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:12:40 +0000

For a while it seemed that “Clouds” were synonymous withthe word “bushing” like the words Kleenex and Xerox…

By: Swamp

Swamp — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:32:32 +0000

Variflex rocked back in the day…They were one of the first (if not THE first) companies to offer concave decks…I had a concave El Gato then my next board was a flat Duane Peters, since Santa Cruz hadn’t jumped on the concave band wagon yet. That being said, that constructon paper crap that they put on the bottom of their decks back then sucked.

By: JF

JF — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:54:16 +0000

I think the Air Attack is hot.