A LITTLE MORE LOSI HISTORY

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Re: A LITTLE MORE LOSI HISTORY

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The 'other' Team Losi/Allen Losi stuff just keeps comin'!
Check these out...I may have to take back the remark about 'LSD' not being THAT LSD,after looking at the Losi Airbourne ad! :shock:
LOVE that Variflex ad! 8)
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Re: A LITTLE MORE LOSI HISTORY

Post by Bongo Fury »

Thanks for the posts 'Mr. Louder' :wink: Cool stuff.

I was aware of the skateboard connection, just not the details. Seems I remember guys joking about Gil Junior being the kid that wouldn't amount to anything, just ribbing of course. Think, not sure, that I read a Pops interview somewhere that implied that Losi RC would never have happened without the Variflex profits.

Must have been quite a family to grow up in, wonder what Christmas was like?

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Must have been quite a family to grow up in, wonder what Christmas was like?
Well I remember seeing Jr's Acura NSX in the parking lot of "The Ranch Pit Shop" (1991-92?).

So yes, Christmas must have been good :roll:

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80's Pro Jeff Grosso,has been doing segments called 'Love Letters To Skateboarding'.
And he just did one with Allen Losi! :D
Some really cool Losi history,right there.
You can watch it here... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhAVkQb0QhQ&feature=related
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Tony Hawk honed his chops at the infamous Del Mar. I had no idea it was connected to R/C's Team Losi. wow

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That video was the shizz, I so remember some of those decks growing up. Makes me wish I still had a few of them.

Broken bones and all, I loved it!!

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Anyone seen the new documentary Stacy Peralta made called 'The Bones Brigade-An Autobiography'?
I've had it for three days.
I've watched it eight times. :shock:
It's KILLER.
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Del Mar Skate Ranch was an incredible park.
That was Tony Hawk's home park and it was also Gator's home park.
Gator ruled Del Mar.Until the..unpleasantness with raping and murdering that poor girl happened.
Great doco called 'Stoked-The Rise & Fall Of Gator' explains it all,highly recommended.
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Post by treystoys »

Wow, this thread occupied 6 hours of my life today!! From researching old skate videos, looking at ads, and the last 1:36 watching 'Stoked-The Rise & Fall Of Gator' I know this is an older thread, but it brought me back. A week away from my 40th birthday, I fall into the skater/RC racer group. I started skating about 30 years back, stopped in my early 20s then picked it back up again in my late 20s. I have given it up years now except to show my kids that daddies not exactly like everyone else's dad. Sure bikes, softball and all that stuff, but I am "special" lol right up until they say "look at my dad!!" and as if on cue I fall flat on my behind lol and go on to nurse my road rashed butt for a week or more. I am pretty sure that my RC stuff is the safer way to stay young :D

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Re: A LITTLE MORE LOSI HISTORY

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Resurrecting a post from the dead!

Del Mar came after The Ranch...Colton Ranch Skateboard Park. Allen skated and Gil bought an RC car. They actually had a track that they built next to the park (both are LONG gone now). As I recall, people were complaining about the noise and the Losi's were kind of getting out of skating and they bought Thorpe's RC Raceway (yes, John Thorpe although it had already changed hands once and was now called Vehle's Pit Shop). Combine the Ranch and Pit Shop and you get: Ranch Pit Shop! Allen did race RC for awhile...and Gil Jr did skateboard before RC, but eventually Allen went back to skating. He has a Facebook page with a bunch of vintage skateboard pictures https://www.facebook.com/allen.losi/photos?source_ref=pb_friends_tl

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