I am often perplexed by the ebay ads that claim a board is “vintage”. IMO, any longboard made after 1970 is not deserving of that appelation. Anyway, there’s a Con CC Rider up for sale currently. The seller claims it is a vintage board, a collector’s item. But, the stringer has a signature and there’s a leash plug which looks factory installed, to me. Plus, the sig is by Codgen, who to my knowledge wasn’t shaping for Con when his model was current. I don’t recall whether there was a re-issue version, but this one looks to be one of those. Sure ain’t a 60s board. I know that.
I forgot to copy the URL, but a search on Ebay for “CC Rider Con” should find it easily.
Yeah ebay is great for a laugh when it comes to boards. I think people have realised that some people will pay decent money for old boards. But some of the descriptions crack me up. I see “vintage 80’s board” haha, and “original”, which means beat to shit, and some of the boards are just terrible looking. There are some good ones now and then though.
P.S i sold 2 80’s thrusters, both for 100 bucks. Crazy huh?
It sure looks like something out of early 90’s with the box, leash plug and that color. If I remember correctly Con had a lot of comebacks over the years and maybe this was some special edition that they did. I think they did an Ugly and a Steve Bigler model in the 90’s.
It sure looks like something out of early 90’s with the box, leash plug and that color. If I remember correctly Con had a lot of comebacks over the years and maybe this was some special edition that they did. I think they did an Ugly and a Steve Bigler model in the 90’s.
I seem to recall some Con re-issues that were featured in an issue of Longboard Mag. Probably 90s. For me, the real clue was the signature. Nobody signed boards that way in the 60s. None that I know of, at least. With an off-the-rack shape, you’d be lucky to see serial# on many boards.
It seems to me I remember Claudie getting some laminates from Con or getting permission to print some back before he (Con) died.
I think he had to stop using them when the label was sold.
Most of Claude’s boards would have the Sunshine logo and one of them looked similar to the old Con CC Rider rectangular with the black background.
Claude didn’t shape the CC’s back in the sixties. As was the case with a lot of the riders with models. Few notable exceptions and I think everyone knows who they are.
Also, as you say, shapers didn’t sign boards back in the mid sixties.
Without looking at it, and with just your description, I’d say this is not a vintage “67” Con.
I don’t know if I am looking at the correct board (orange cc rider) but it doesn’t say vintage at all?
Yup. Seller revised the listing because someone (cough-cough) told them the board isn’t vintage. Original listing claimed so.
Now, it says:
“This classic surfboard is 9’8” and is signed by Claudge Codgen himself with number 178(and then another symbol at the end that I can’t tell) next to it. The CC Rider is amazing condition for is age. Perfect board for those big time collectors!"
…which I still find misleading. Use of the word “classic” and mention of “big time collectors” makes it sound like the board
is more than it really is. Typical of ebay, though.
Another one I find funny is the Duke popout that’s been re-listed over and over with a starting bid of $3500. Piece O crap.
short little windows of evolution. There is something to be said about those first wave of re-issues. Some are begining to be collectible on there own.
I had a nice first re-issue Bing made by Mike Eaton that was pretty cool. Have another Phil Edwards 1st re-issue from '89 that’s nice too.