Rare Vintage G&S Mark " Gator " Rogowski, Complete Skateboard, 1983
Item History & Price
Reference Number: Avaluer:372883 | Model: Mark "Gator" Rogowski |
Brand: G&S |
This is Gator's first signature board after he turned pro in about 1983 while riding for G&S. The board comes with Tracker Magnesium trucks, and pink G&S YoYo wheels. The trucks have some old Shoe-Goo on them from the copers that were glued on. Yellow G&S rails are also on the board.
As a free bonus in this auction, are two photos I took of Gator at a couple contests. The top photo is Gator mid-Ind...y-oop* at a Whittier contest while he was still an amateur. The lower photo is at another contest in about 1980. The lower photo is cool for a number of reasons. Gator's frontside air is pretty OK, but in the background are John Lucero, Chris Miller, Tony Hawk, Kevin Staab, Stacy Peralta, Eric Nash, Jeff Grosso, and Christian Hosoi among others - all are still amateurs (except Stacy). Massive contest crowds, eh? Anyway, you will get these two original photos, not scans or reprints. Why? Because skating history is important and these photos belong with the board. I competed against Gator at that Whittier contest in about 1982, he got first, I got a third. He was doing massive Indy-oops and ever since then I've really enjoyed doing that trick...
The board is and always has been mine, I'm the only owner it has known.
It's time someone else enjoys this board.
I will only ship within the USA.
*Indy-oop = start out with a frontside air, rotate frontside and land in an Indy air. I'm pretty sure Gator came up with this one.