A fluoro Town & Country, a Tom Parrish gun with lightning bolt, and an MR twinny that sold for over a grand, they're all in this month's Board Bazaar.

An immaculate Lazor Zap, an untouched Energy Thruster, and a surfboard collector on a mission from God. Welcome to the July instalment of the Board Bazaar.

A Simon Anderson surfboard with a reverse rocker, an Aussie version of a Lis Fish, and a number of regional classics. Welcome to the June Board Bazaar.

A naked beauty, an animal taken from its North Shore environment, and one of Colonel Kilgore's descendants...welcome to the May edition of the Board Bazaar.

Recently, while flicking through a book of John Witzig's photos, blindboy encountered an image that was identical to a memory he'd stored many years ago. Angourie, 1970. 

Damon Hurst explores the emerging second hand surfboard market in Australia, and also announces a special treat for WA board boffins.

This is the first instalment of the Board Bazaar, a monthly column looking at the second hand board market. This ain't a classifieds section, just somewhere to pore over notable boards that have recently gone under the hammer.

"I can't remember who first mentioned the Bronzed Aussie concept to me. It may have been PT or Mark Warren. I just remember being appalled at the name and mystified at the concept." Swellnet contributor, blindboy, glances back at one of the most bizarre, yet prescient episodes in the history of professional surfing - the creation of the Bronzed Aussies.

Everyone was riding nine-foot-plus boards till 1967. This tiny board was so small and heavy, with George's deep hull front end. We rode it at Alex shore break, and found it very challenging, discouraging actually. If only we'd persevered with it. We may have started the Shortboard Revolution three years early.