1982 Coca Cola 2SM Surfabout winner's trophy.

Anonymous Gold Coast Board Hoarder wrote- 

"Here's my $5 purchase from the Curumbin tip.

WINNER 1982 Surfabout.

Who could that be??"

1982 Coca Cola 2SM Surfabout. I see a Rabbit in the crowd.

"The story goes that years ago, Rabbit lent his trophy’s to Micheal Peterson for display in his surf shop.
Supposedly MP scooped them up and threw them away down at the tip and this may have been one of those.
Where it’s been since then I don’t know, but it popped up at the tip shop 4-5 years ago.
I think there is a more detailed account of this incident in one of the books about MP.
A friend had it on display in a surf shop at Coolangatta and apparently Rabbit walked in one day and verified it, quote:

“That’s my Fucking trophy how did it get here?”

Wayne beating Shaun in the quarter finals of the 1982 Surfabout on his way to the finals.

Rabbit at Dee Why Point during the 1982 Coca Cola 2SM Surfabout.
(I was on the point leaning on Derek Hynd's brown Mazda RX7 wearing my school uniform).

Simon accepts a similar trophy in 1981.

20K + car + a handsome trophy!

1982 Event 1: Straight Talk Tyres Open. Winner Cheyne Horan.

1982 Event 2: Subbies Surf Classic. Winner Cheyne Horan.

1982 Event 3: Rip Curl Easter Classic. Winner Mark Richards.

1982 Event 4: Coca-cola 2SM Surfabout. Winner "Rabbit".

Hot Stuff twins

Hot Stuff, rounded pin tail, channel bottom, single fin, twins as in 'peas in a pod', 'separated at birth'.

Californian Classic

What is more Californian than a supermarket that has car spaces reserved for fuel efficient vehicles???

A  Californian bastard in a giant V8 SUV taking up two spaces reserved for fuel efficient vehicles.....

What is  more Californian than a car lot with four Cameros and a Pontiac Firebirds with flames and racing stripes?

A whole car yard of muscle cars with flames and racing stripes........

Look closley, 2 guys splitting the peak

What is  more Californian than a A frame sand bank created by man made river mouth jetties?

Four people surfing it on thanks giving afternoon.....

expect for this little 1983,  6'2", single bump, squash tail, flouro logo, Channel Islands, Al Merrick designed Californian classic!!

Hot Stuff single.

Ben wrote to say-
I bought this Hot Stuff single fin in 1979 from a mate when I lived on the Gold coast. I was heavily involved in the club scene on the Goldy. I swapped a Jim Pollard 7’2’ V channel for it. It is an early comp glass / texture deck shaped by Gill Glover for Rabbit, who rode it as a practise board and in a few heats at the Stubbies. Surfed it for about 6 months then I bought a darby 5/8 twinnie.

After going from 7/2 to 6 to 5/8 the Bunny was the one I pulled out on a good overhead day. One very early dawn patrol up on the Sunny coast I rode this Board at Tea Tree Bay barrelling of its nut with 3 mates. We ended the session with the tide and threw the sticks on top of the car and were heading up noosa hill when I see in the rear mirror Boards flying everywhere. A friend who shall remain nameless  forgot the occy straps.

Long story short, it took a tumble and being so light with he glass it bit the bitumen. So I tied it back onto the old Peugeot 203 and took her home. Put it up on the trestles and decided the resto was beyond my capability so she went to the shed. It hasn’t seen salt water since that day.

Ben, the Hot Stuff , the girl friend and the Peugeot