Do it Yourself Skateboard Kit

Branding it as a DIY Kit is a genius way to cut costs by making the consumer put everything together, but the display packaging on this is is why you’re seeing it here. This isn’t just any fiberglass skateboard kit, it’s “Top Line.” It even comes with an instruction book, which most kids probably needed in order to figure out how to put together those open bearing wheels. UPDATE: Found an ad for this product in a 1975 issue of Skateboarder.

– Thanks to David Maes for the tip. [Source: Ebay]

So old, the virgin 100% Urethane wheels have cracked.

While adding images to the Vintage Skatemag Advertising Gallery some 4 years after this post was made, I recognized this product in V2 N2 Fall 1975 issue of Skateboarder magazine.