Huffy Skateboards Part 3: Fiberglass and Plexiglass

The Huffy Skateboards extravaganza continues in part 3, which focuses on non-wooden and non-plastic skateboards. We’re talking glass here. Plexiglass and fiberglass. This whole series started out as what I thought was just going to be a quick post about the clear model seen top right, but quickly ballooned out of control. Thunderboards!

Here’s the images that started my trip down the Huffy skateboards wormhole, thanks to Brian Eberhardt. His model has been re-drilled to fit tracker trucks, but these are by far the best pics of this 24″ “Ultra flex” model out there at the time of publication. It appears to be clear plexiglass. A lot of the ones out there on the web have become very cloudy.

Here’s another example, looks like the trucks that might have come with the board but it’s hard to tell, and there were no closeups.

It looks like they made a red tinted model too, although this might actually be more than a color difference. The sticker says “Ultraflex Wide Trac,” and the pin striping decals on the red version have 3 colors instead of 2.

Next up, we have low res blurry photos of a blue fiberglass Thunderboard 24″ that says something on the tail but I can’t be sure what. Probably not Action Tail like the plastic ones though. It looks a little different. The first 3 pics are form the same auction. I thought the date stamped on the tail (June 25, 1976) was probably one by the owner until I found the board in the second row, which is not the same board seen in the first row, but also has a date stamped on the tail. The top graphics on the one are almost completely invisible.

These next 4 pictures might not be a Huffy skateboard after all, but the trucks certainly are. In any case, it’s archived here incase better pictures turn up somewhere and it turns out to be bonafide. That loan “G” on the top does not give much hope though.

Lastly, we have the 28″ Camberflex. Most of these pics are kind of small, and it’s not entirely clear whats going on with those built in riser pads that are part of construction. Again, not the greatest pictures available. All three of these examples have never been set up as evidenced by the fact the the truck holes still have a membrane covering them and have not been drilled through. It’s also amusing that they cover the complete range from having all the stickers to not having any.

Breaking news! On the day of publication I managed to find some better pics! It’s clear that this board has quite a camber to it! This first shot doesn’t quite show those built in risers but some of the others do. If I had to guess I would say they necessary to strengthen the deck at the point of the mounting hardware, due to increased stress from the camber of the board.

Those trucks say Tiger Tracks. I couldn’t find any other pictures of Tiger Tracks trucks except for some on a skateboard that looks suspiciously like a yellow tinted version of the clear and red plexiglass models, but had no visible sticker markings, nor evidence of past markings in the same locations. Enough is enough, so that board is not included here.

Well then, that’s it for alternate construction Huffy skateboards. First we covered plastic Huffy skateboards, and the next installment covered wooden Huffy skateboards. The final installment will cover Huffy skateboarding accessories. As always, if you have info or pictures of boards I’m not showing, please send ’em in!