A few weeks ago I read a post about a salvagable board someone found in the trash. I thought there might be intrest in a thread dedicated to all time great garbage can salvage jobs.
Here’s mine:
Shortly after I moved to San Diego for school, I found a 7’6" single fin Music! in the dumpster in my student apartment complex. I had never surfed before but I was eager to try. It had a few small dings, but I looked up ding repair on the internet and patched it up myself. Along the way, I discovered the board was shaped by some guy named Rus Priesendorfer, probably sometime in the 70’s. I was as carrying it to the beach one day when some guy rolls up on his bike and starts asking me a bunch of questions about it. Turns out its Rusty himself, who dated it in the 74-76 and offered to buy it. I thought about trading up for a board better suited to learning but ultimatley decided there were plenty of Rusty boards out there, but not so many from the 70s when Rusty would have been just another kid shaping surfboards in his garage for his friends. Its rails have definitely seen better days and Its had a fin-job at some point in its life but overall its in remarkable condition given the fact that it was resuced from a dumpster. Like an idiot, I let my nephew ride it a few times and he brought it back in worse condition than it was when I found it.
Anyway, there’s my trash can treasure story, there have to be others out there, lets see 'em!
Not a ‘dumpster’ find, but my brother bought this early eighties twinny from a thriftstore for R200 (about $20 US).
Amazing spray job and in perfect condition, has no real heel dents on deck, original fins.
My brother’s been surfing it a lot, and it started taking water into the nose and the tail area where the glass has become brittle. I’m doing repairs to get her back in the water.
Awesome looking board for a trash can board. I got an 80’s thruster for 20 bucks at a garage sale, but it was just too small for me, i ended up selling it for 100 on ebay, which was a shock.
P.S didn’t they make thrusters over 6’ in the 80’s??. Every 80’s thruster i see for sale is 5’10’’ max. I would say 95% of what i see are 5’6’’ or something ridiculous.
Yeah, the twinny’s 5’8’‘. I saw a thruster version of a similar shape and sprayjob,
also a Country Rhythm, sitting in a car at the beach, about 5’6’’ or possibly shorter.
Couldn’t find the owner. They would’ve made a great pair.
It was around march a couple of years ago and I pulled up to a spot on the north end of Ocean city, NJ and in the trash was a Surfboards by Phillips with a black plastic fin glassed in wave set box with ventral fin boxes barely staying in on each side with no fins, It definitely had its share of scars but Its a 6’ ish round tail with chimed rails and a textured deck and deck patch and over 3 and a half thick . I’m slowly fixing it up but I started on it before i really knew anything about working on boards. I did pull ventaral boxes out and filled them which turned into an experiment incoloring the bottom which I am now regretting. Jim if this was one of yours did they come with the three fin set up or was one or two of the boxes added later on?
Hi all, first time comment. Not a ‘trash’ find but pretty nice all the same, got it few years back off Brighton surf museum, UK. 7"2 ish made by A&W surfboards in North Devon, UK. Surfs really nice on clean open faces. Wax job done by my hippy house mate!
