Featured Skateboards: Pro-Glass Fiberglass, Pro-Class Hot Dogger, Pro-Class Hot Dogger II
1976 JCPenney Christmas Book, Page 303.
Page 303
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For Sidewalk Surfers
F – Fiberglass 24-in. Skateboard. Pliable board with flexing aluminum trucks. Ball-bearing urethane plastic wheels are 1⅛ in, wide in front, 1½ in. wide in rear for greater control. 24×5¾x3¼ in. high.
X 927-1883 A-Mailable: wt. 4.40 Ibs. $17.77
G – Plastic 24-In. Skateboard. Flexing board with aluminum trucks, and kick tail. Ball-bearing urethane plastic wheels 1¼ in. wide in front, 1⅝ in. in rear. 24×5½x3½-in. high.
X 927-2220 A-Mailable: wt. 3.50 Ibs.. $14.99
H – Plastic 21-In. Skateboard. Bright blue polypropylene with flexing aluminum trucks. Ball-bearing urethane 1¼ in. plastic wheels front and back. 21×5½x3½ in, high
X 927-2519 A – Mailable: wt. 3.50 Ibs. 9.99
The real-life skateboards.
F: Pro-Class – Fiberglass
This is where it gets weird. Pro-Class is a known entity. They manufactured skateboard products under the Pro-Class name as well as Bad Co., and Weed Wheels, possibly others. The catalog page clearly shows “Pro-Glass” and a search turns up a few matching Pro-Glass models, but also turns up a nearly identical “Pro-Class” model. So Identical in fact, that it looks like the same screen was used to make both boards. Simply taping it of or applying block out over the terminal of the G effectively turns it into a C. Was this a half-assed effort at private labeling for the sake of JCPenney? Actually, closer inspection shows a slightly wider hyphen on the Pro-Class model, but surely these were made by the same company.
Pro-class images from Treasures Never Trash
G: Pro-Class – Plastic (Hot Dogger II)
Based on the the Pro-Glass/Pro-Class board above, the second board appears to be ash Pro-Class Hot Dogger II. Green board via funkykevin67. The measurement in the auction say 23″ long as opposed to 24″ in the catalog, but the shape with the distinctive super-pointy nose and stubby tail matches. One of the measurements is probably wrong. Yellow board courtesy of Marcelo Weber.
G: Pro-Class – Plastic (Hot Dogger)
The Pro-Class Hot Dogger II matches what is shown in the ad… or does it. It looks like they made three versions of the Hot Dogger I without giving them a separate name designation. Pro-Class incremented the Hot Dogger model to at least as high as the Hot Dogger IV.
Here’s a blue version that is completely flat, via Pratter’s Products
Here’s a Hot Dogger in yellow, via KaraMCollectibles. Notice this one has the slightest of a suggestion of a kicktaill.
And here it is in green, still called a Hot Dogger, but this one has a larger kicktail. Actually more of a foot stop than a kicktail.
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