Featured Skateboards: Rainbow Rider fiberglass, Rainbow Ryder wood
1976 JCPenney Spring / Summer, Page 611. This is an almost identical page they ran in the 1975 Christmas catalog, except for some bizarre reason the skateboards are on sale during the peak of the skateboard season…
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SAVE 33% on Fiberglass Skate Board
F – 24-in. Fiberglass Skate Board. Pliable board has double-ac-tion aluminum trucks. Ball-bearing clear urethane plastic wheets. Rear wheels (1½ in.) are wider than front wheels for better control. 24×5¾x3¼ in. high. Reduced from our ’75 Christmas Catalog – see page 315.
A 927-1883 A-Mail. wt. 4.40 Ibs. ………..Was $29.95; NOW $19.77
Wood Skate Board
G – 24-in. Wood SkateBoard. Binch board wth natural finish. Steel trucks. 1⅛ in. wide ball-bearing yellow urethane plastic wheels 24×5½x3½ in, high.
A 821-2203 A-Mail. wt. 3.50 Ibs. ……….$9.77
The real-life skateboards.
Rainbow Ryder – Fiberglass
There’s a Rainbow Ryders ad with this deck in the 1975 Summer issue of the then newly relaunched Skateboarder magazine. The manufacturer Acex had a distribution deal with JC Penney: “Available at the larger J. C. Penney stores and finer surf shops and sporting goods stores everywhere.”
Rainbow Ryder – Wood
While looking for something else, the Rainbow Ryder wood model came up mislabeled as a “Pro Class Rainbow Rider.” Pictures via zakyzaky. This one has a yellow top print, which seems little less contrast than the one in the ad. Maybe they produced it in more than one color. This setup has Continental trucks, possibly one of the ones shown in this ad – See the top trucks in the black and white section of the right page.
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