Tracker Fultrack skateboard truck, 1975
date: label: date made
content: 1975
name: label: maker
content: Tracker Trucks
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Metal skateboard truck with rubber gasket shock absorbers and a square metal base to attach to a skateboard deck. According to the donor, Larry Balma, "The Tracker Fultrack was 4-1/2" wide, extreme for the time, cast of heat treated aluminum, strong and stable. Tracker established the 4-hole mounting pattern, fixed kingpins, aircraft quality materials and hardware. Trackers are the introduction of the "Modern Skateboard Truck," an evolutionary step in skateboard design. The Tracker Fultrack was the first truck in history made specifically for skateboarding by skateboarders to incorporate high quality, performance and strength." Tracker Trucks was founded in 1974 by Dave Dominy, Larry Balma and Gary Dodd, friends from North San Diego County who began skating at La Costa, a newly built upscale neighborhood that would become the first free downhill skatepark.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: skateboarding
label: web subject
content: Invention
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.0239.01
label: accession number
content: 2015.0239
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0239.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: truck, skateboard
label: Object Name
content: skateboard truck
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 7 in x 3 in; 5.08 cm x 17.78 cm x 7.62 cm