Oh, MAN!

[mbarrick]

My old surf-beast!

I was just putting a bunch of old photos up in the photo album section of my personal website and came across this. OK, it is a desperately crappy picture, but this is my old Volkswagen "truck". It was a type 3 squareback that had been cut entirely in half. About 16 inches were removed from the middle of the car, making it a very short 2-seater. It had skidplates and re-enforced bumpers so you could pretty much knock over trees with it and then drive over them - great for bashing along old logging roads to get to obscure parts of Vancouver Island. The board on top is my old 10' longboard. The damn thing weighed 70 lbs. I got it across the back of my head a few times in big winter surf. And speaking of winter, yes, it is covered in snow, and yes, I went out that day anyway. Never fuck with a Canadian surfer (not so much because we are tough, but more because we are clearly insane and have no sense of self-preservation).

Comments

[sleeplessknight.livejournal.com]

Whoa! That looks old! O_O

It is

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

The picture is from 1989. The car is a 1964 VW, and board had been sitting somebody's barn since 1965.

[opium.livejournal.com]

DUDE! \m/

[evilyn13.livejournal.com]

man, you really are old!
evilyn

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

The Wonder Wagon is, by leaps and bounds, the newest car I have ever owned.

wow...

[bitogoth.livejournal.com]

i am in awe. i never got very far with surfing, since i had no board. my knee injury back in '92 killed all windsurfing and body-boarding touneys for me...

*also nostalgic now*

~e