Mick Mock auction item photo Gary Crockett
This early 70s Shane Standard with a smart twin-fin set up was spotted at Mick Mock’s vintage surf auction at Harbord Diggers this weekend. Racy s-deck, funky hot pink decal and a pair of apple green fins surely sets it apart from the tide of garden variety ‘standards’ shipped from the Shane factory in Brookvale from the turn of the decade. Although work had been underway on twin and triple fin ideas for some time and Sydney shapers were getting hip to progress being made in California, it wasn’t until Mark Richards fused a few Hawaiian tricks together in 1976 that they really took off on Sydney beaches.
