Old tyme.

Steve Olson appears to be taking his more gothic elements into a high tech direction. His latest whip is said to be a composite graphite loaded downhiller that is laced with the ashes of Bobby Turner. The Summer Ski maestro's remains are suspended in the board's thermo epoxy matrix. Crikey, talk about channeling your sponsor.

In order to further fund, in one way or another, the US Skateboard Association, word is that its OG founder James O'Mahoney will soon be selling a few choice artifacts from his Santa Barbara Museum's holdings. Reputed to be on the auction block are such skate collectibles as Russ Howell's prototype Grentec model (no joke), Tommy Curren's first board, a NoCaster Fender guitar, the wedding book made by Michael "KOP" Jackson for diva Elizabeth Taylor's wedding at Neverland Ranch and Colonel Kilgore's surf cue from the film Apocalypse Now. It is even rumored that director Francis Ford Coppola is so hot to score the Kilgore board that Quentin Tarantino is bidding for it on his behalf.