Surfboard Prices --25 years ago--

[rolliges]

Quit your bitching. Surfboards should cost way more than they do; people who make surfboards should make way more than they do.

This article is from Surfer December 1979

 

[drowning]

Thanks for the walk down memory lane. My first board that I bought new was a red plastic fantastic, 6 foot single fin, purdchased in huntington in 1970. It cost around a hundred bucks, and a full body glove suit was 30, and wasn't worth ten. It was still better than spending the winter hypothermic, which I did for the 4 grommet years prior.

The only thing I disagree with in the article is the connection of modern shaping to the historical hawaiian, I don't see it, maybe in the 40's and early 50's, but not since the introduction of fiberglass cloth and resins. Certainly not since foam.

 

[000]

whos bitching? i m just glad the mustache went out of style

 

[Tanner]

If you're really interested in figuring this out, click on this inflation calculator, and plug in your numbers.

My first "new" board was a 6'0 Surfboards Hawaii twin fin, bought in the summer of '81 for $285 (I remember the amount because my Mom was freaking that I was blowing all my savings on such an "expensive" surfboard).

According to this inflation calculator, that same board would now cost $634.41

Inflation Calculator

 

[rolliges]

That's just an inflation calculation. Other "cost of doing business" have probably increased faster than inflation.

I'm no economist but some of my friends are. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />