Hunt those street spots or master your skills on Powell Peralta Vato Rats complete! This quality complete skateboard will feel right and delightful under a beginner’s or an advanced skater’s feet! With Skate One’s decades of experience in skateboard manufacturing, they know exactly what modern skaters need.
Vato Rats complete consists of Powell-Peralta birch deck, 53mm 101a Powell-Peralta conical wheels, 8″ Mini Logo trucks, and Skate Rated Mini Logo bearings.
About the Vato Rat Bones Artwork:
The Vato Rat was created by artist Craig Stecyk. Coming from the Santa Monica Dogtown “Z-Boy” surf-skate scene of the 1970’s, Stecyk was surrounded by Hispanic gang culture and graffiti. At the time he was airbrushing a lot of Zephyr surfboards and blended that influence into his work. The Vato Rat was one of the many symbols he used to decorate surfboards and generally mark territory at local surf spots. In 1983 Stacy Peralta decided to bring the Vato Rat back as a Powell-Peralta graphic. They called it “Rat Bones” and it was used in advertising, on decks, stickers and T-shirts.
Powell Peralta Vato Rats:
- L: 31.45″ W: 8″ WB: 14″ (birch deck)
- 53mm 101a white conical wheels
- 8″ black/silver Mini Logo trucks
- Skate Rated Mini Logo bearings
- 1/8″ shock pads, black griptape
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Here is the first episode of Powell-Peralta ‘Parks n Wreck.’ This is all footage from our Weekend Missions with the team. This first episode features: John Bradford, @Christopher Hiett, Craig Edwards, Donny Hixson, Hericles Fagundes, Darrius Hutton, Cy Romano, Julian Jeang-Agliardi, Kwesi Holloway, and Victor Garcia.
Powell Peralta is an American skateboard company founded by George Powell and Stacy Peralta in 1978. It became known for its Bones Brigade team, which included top skateboarding competitors of the 1980s.
Peralta left the company in 1991 and Powell continued to produce skateboard equipment under the Powell, Bones Bearings, and RollerBones brands. CalStreets or CSI was the company's second distributor in Canada after Northwest Skateboards.
