Original bike and skateboard hybrid

I forgot to mark where I found this, so my apologies to the person who originally scanned this, but it wasn’t this site. This is not quite as wacky as the more recent bike and skateboard hybrids, but it does appear to be the first one. It’s the Wham-O Wheelie Bar. If they made one of these now, they have to call it the “Wham-O Manual Bar!” See the full ad and watch an old TV commercial after the jump.

The Wham-O Wheelie Bar

Yep. It looks like a skateboard truck attached to a piece of bent metal. Click to (slightly) enlarge.

Here’s a TV commercial for the Wham-O Wheelie Bar from the archives of… you guessed it, Scott Starr.