I get the impression that he was gifted a lot of his boards, rather than buying them?
I have the actual fedora Lutzka was wearing when he signed up to K-Swiss, yours for only 5k
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Maybe this isn’t widely known outside actual skateboarding but…
No-one gives a fuck about the 900 except Tony
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And even if you did, why would you want to pay over a million for the board he did it on? It’s just regular board for its time, like millions of others. You could assemble the identical components for a fraction of the price.
He’s certainly not paying a million dollars a deck 
He makes content with other people’s decks sometimes but he definitely buys and trades decks as well. He got a lot of amazing ridden decks off Ron Chatman for one. A lot of pros and artists had big stashes of decks and art that have mostly been sold off to private collections now. Eventually no doubt some of them will end up in museums.
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You could get a copy of the Mona Lisa done for a fraction of the price but if there’s a fire in your house and they’re both hanging in the hallway which one are you grabbing?
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I get that, but the Mona Lisa is in itself a sort of 900 of the art world. It contains techniques no one ever did before - a deliberate blurring of lines that make her expression enigmatic and ambiguous. Whereas Hawk’s board is just a standard skateboard that he happed to be using that day when he made the first 900.
Well it’s not standard it’s the one he did the 900 on.
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But still made of regular wood, with normal trucks and wheels though?
Maybe I just don’t get sports memorabilia. Like people in America pay a fortune for a baseball someone hit a home run with. If I wanted a baseball I’d just get a normal one from a sports shop. Same with Tony Hawk’s 900 board. I’d rather buy a new board from a skate shop than have his old one from back then, even if it was offered to me for free. And I have a lot of time for Hawk and what he’s fdone for skating.
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But what if it was made from high tech carbon fiber? With internal gyroscope gizmos?
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I know his pads had those boosters that they used in interstellar to give him extra spin.
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I see where you’re heading. But I think it’s just me. I’m just not into collecting,
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In today’s world, with such a massive wealth gap, dropping a million dollars on a potential investment that might pay off down the road isn’t all that unusual for billionaires. And since it’s a charity auction, there’s probably a tax break involved too.
At the end of the day, the buyer will be working an angle that works in their favor.
Hendrix’s guitar from Woodstock was just a guitar, McCartney’s bass was a piece of shit awful awful instrument but its what they did with it thats significant (or not depending on your viewpoint).
The key part is he’s selling it for charity to raise money for skateparks so even he knows that its for the greater good (the greater good) shifting it for crazy money rather than stuffing it in a cupboard before his next divorce.
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Brian May’s guitar was made of an old drawer. Just nip down ikea, exactly the same.
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If you really don’t get it then I imagine you don’t get museums, art galleries, or classic cars.
But I suspect you’re just being disingenuous to be contrarian.
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I went for a tour of Abbey Road studios a while ago, and (very naughtily because they said don’t touch) I touched the upright piano that he played on the White Album and other stuff. Now, every time I hear any Fab Macca piano tune from back then, I get a little buzz and think “ooh I touched that piano”. Imagine how stoked you’d be if you were the kind of dork who loves Tone’s 900 and you bought that board! You’d have to seal it in shrink wrap, because of the bodily fluids, I imagine.
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Between this and Voodoos DMS reference on the caption thread it’s been a good day so far.
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Mantlepiece but yeah
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Anita Dobson: “Love Of My Life, what the hell are you doing in there?”
Brian May: “I’m just chopping up the mantelpiece for a new guitar. Don’t Stop Me Now!”
Anita Dobson: “Oh well, Another One Bites The Dust!”
DUF, DUF, Duf duf dufdufduf
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