Check out Greg Knoll Da Kat at longboard house while it's still
There a True work of art.
#69 out of 250 . Believe it sold
to guy in Maryland. Can't get pic to attach.

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Edited: 11/08/2018 at 10:38 AM by palerider

True story, back in the early 90's I was working a boardwalk amusement park in Delaware and somebody abandoned a greg noll longboard (I distinctly remember the fat man logo and large wood single fin) on the beach. Myself an another guy who surfed watched it until the sun went down and he went and grabbed it. At the time I was ambivalent about it but I have always regretted that it wasn't me that took it home...

For a short while there was a Longboard House in Cocoa Beach next to Mai Tiki (or thereabouts). He had a bunch of old longboards including two Da' Cats, a Montgomery Ward's (red, of course), a Surfboards Atlantic and a bunch of others that I can't recall. It was really cool just walking around and drooling.

It had a price tag of $19000 if it sold Mike is doing a dance as I write this!

Damn. I used to want one but then the world went crazy. There was a guy in California that was doing excellent counterfeits of Greg Nolls and getting big money in the early days of Ebay. Greg Noll eventually called the guy out.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

story and video on the LA rip off:
https://www.thesurfboardprojec...iki-dora-da-cat-model/

http://www.thesurfboardproject...ki-dora-da-cat-model/

fixed the link.

http://longboardretrodays.blog...-by-jim-phillips.html

This the Jim Phillips take on the cat, a board that was considered more collectable than ridable. Da copycat is not susceptible to that criticism. Downsouthslider had one and I should have gotten it when I had the chance. Green, beautiful. Its now out there somewhere. I did get a Hustler though.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

Randy Thomas was the owner of the Cocoa Bch Longboard house . He kept longboarding alive when NO ONE else cared about it during the 90's . He had Pat O and Claudie shaping longboards for him and Jeff Haney shaping shorties as well . He had the best collection Iv'e ever seen !!!!

Edited: 11/12/2018 at 10:35 AM by SonSurf

Robert Strickland as well. Awesome shop!

Dang forgot about that ! The twins are my childhood best friends sure miss Randy had alot of good times growing up in Azelea Park with him and the boys . We all moved over here and surfed our brains out ! YEEEW

I know for a fact that Justin Quintal has one of the sickest authentic Greg Knoll Da Cat boards that I have ever seen!


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Give a smile, get a smile

He has money in the bank then.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

Years ago, I watched an old, out of shape guy wax his pristine, split stringer, hand shaped Phil Edwards 9'-6" twin tip on the beach at 2nd Light. I asked him if he knew what he had. He said yes, and that Phil had shaped it for him. I asked him if he was going to surf in front of the rocks with no leash. He said yes. I couldn't bear to watch, so I left.

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I was right.

We are kicking ourselves. We sold our Hobie phill Edwards
9'6 triple stringer with wood skeg and wooden tail
Block for $875 10years ago when moving and
Medical reasons. It just sold at auction
For 9k ugh!

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Edited: 11/17/2018 at 04:27 AM by palerider

That's ,^, as good as this: The year before Andrew one of my big brothers retired early, bought an awesome canal and Bahia Honda frontage home down on Big Pine for 175k, about a year after the big blow, realizing it just wasn't the right fit for his still in public school age kids and such associated things, they chose to move back to the desert sw, sold the place for not much more than that, last I checked back in 2010 I think, it was up again for 4 mill ~~~

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The legend of DaCat model is that Dora loved Yaters Spoon model Board. Hater was a bit Leary about doing business with Dora. Yaters wife said abosolutly not so Renny passed on doing. Dora Spoon model. Knoll knew that Dor was a risk but also knew that any Dora model board would sell. Dora brought in Spoon told knoll just to copy it. This is the legend. It may or may not be true. But I can see Dora doing something like that. Greg Knoll could have looked over the Board did his take on the Yater Spoon.